What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Sacto]

Back to my normal routine. I’ve been carrying this Case since I got home a few days ago.

 

[5K Qs]

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Knowing that you are a numbers kind of guy, I would expect that ! .............Well ..... it did make a fine birdhouse.

Appreciate the love for my 50's era Boker. Wish they made them that good now. I don't understand what is so hard about putting a high quality bolster stamp on a Barlow and having nice swedges on the blades. It surely wasn't that difficult in the past.

Glad to see you are almost mended.

I really like that Scrimshaw RR Canoe (don't tell nobody) and if it didn't have such long eyelashes, I might love it.

Rob, do you still have the birdhouse? Maybe you can get a quick shot of a knife against the birdhouse for old times' sake (or just post an old photo with that background board if you still have one).

The RR match strike nail nicks are a little bit like the New York Yankees, I guess. When I was a kid everyone either loved or hated the Yankees (I was a hater). With RR nail nicks, folks either hate 'em or don't even notice them, I think. (Don't hear many people saying they love them.)

Thanks!
Post-lawn removal, Plan A was to plant grapes in Spring, 2024. But the soil was in such bad shape, Plan B was to plant a mix of clover, wildflowers, and poppies to restore the soil, then plant grapes in Spring 2025. Parts of the lawn did great with the mix (see pic below) and other parts grew nothing. So Plan C is now one more year of cover crops, then grapes in Spring 2026.

Thanks for the landscaping update; cool wildflowers! Best wishes as your plans unfold!

I always enjoy seeing that one out and about. I'm sorry I haven't kept up with The Porch goings-on lately. Do you still go to that same vacation spot these days?
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Today's carry is a hundred years old and a hair over 3 inches long. Enough knife to handle sitting around in the air conditioning and watching Olympics all day.

Cool old knife with a gleaming edge, Rachel!
We still plan to vacation for a couple of weeks in Michigan's Upper Peninsula each year. We've always gone up on the first Saturday in August for the past 30+ years. That would have been last Saturday, but my wife had decided a year ago that she wanted to try going a little later since I didn't have to worry about school starting in September. So we made reservations at our usual spot for a couple weeks starting on the Saturday after Labor Day. Then earlier this year, she discovered that a rental place just across the lagoon from where we've always gone had an opening and we could take our dog with us if we stayed there. So she ended up changing our reservations to that new place for the last 2 weeks of August. We had to forfeit our deposit on the other place, but the deposit was smaller than what we usually pay to board the dog. (And the past couple of years the dog ended up with hefty vet bills post-vacation. I don't think he does too well spending a couple weeks without us.)

Thank you sir! About the same experience for me as well. Four pretty rough days followed by a couple less rough days, leading to today where I feel relatively normal besides some light congestion and a lingering cough. Lost a week of work which I'm not excited to catch up on but such is life.

In any case today I'm totin' my camillus engineer's knife, a prized possession in my small collection. I hope everyone is having a great sunday!

Hope you get completely healthy and caught up at work ASAP.
That's a first-rate engineers knife! WW2 vintage?

Thanks as always, Prof.
Yes, low angle sunlight works best for me. There are some good photographers on the porch, who I try to emulate. Remember Harvey, Cigarro Dog? He always posted well lit shots.

Regarding beets…nature’s blood pressure cure?
I don’t know where the old wive’s tale of rabbits eating root crops (carrots) comes from. I never saw one digging. They eat the shoots and tender young leaves and stems. Clip them off right at the ground. They really whacked my young beets this spring.
Aren’t sugar beets grown for livestock feed? A little different from the round red delicacies that you will learn to love when you grow up

Harvey's shots were well-lit with cool knives and tempting desserts!
I think when my grandpa grew beets, they were sold to companies that wanted to make sugar. My wife still sends me to the grocery store for a bag of sugar with instructions to get CANE sugar, not BEET sugar. I think the beet tops got fed to the cows and/or pigs (and maybe horses?). I'll eat anything if it's mixed in with everything else, but I sure won't sit down to enjoy a bowl of beets, no matter how much older I get.

Today.
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If I were going to get a motorcycle, I'd have to get one like this, I think. It looks small enough that I'd be able to pick it back up on its wheel after I inevitably tipped it over someplace.

Thank you kindly, Gary. You are on point with BlauPunkt. The last one I saw, was in an Audi I owned.

I hear that a lot. But, prefer the current design for daily use.

Buck heat treat is better than the Camllus. So, while IMO 440A is maybe a tad better blade steel for pocket knives than 420HC, the Buck steel performs better than the Camillus.
Edge 2000 profile is better than the flat grind for most of the cutting jobs I do. I sharpen mine to a 15DPS angle. Thin for the win.
I prefer the three-spring design. A crinked blade comes out at an angle. Sheepsfoot on a three spring knife comes out straight. That makes the current 303 easier to use. I use sheepsfoot blade for a lot of my cutting tasks.

I get that the current design has weaker springs. The way I use a knife it's not an issue. The one thing I don't want is to have cold, wet, or slippery fingers wrestling to open a knife. That's never an issue with the current Bucks. (Not really an issue on the Camillus either, but it is on some of my other stockman knives.)

At the end of the day, I love the stockman design becasue it is such an excellent work knife. And the current Buck design works better for me than the Camillus, even if it is not as elegant a solution as a bent-blade design.

Articulate and persuasive argument, Frank.

Lots of brass & wood today
Bog oak, rosewood & oak.

Fine pair of knives, and I really like the knob on your stick! Is the knob part of an old horse harness?

I am most likely not smarter than you Gary . 3 years ago I did use a wand . 2 Years ago I discovered that they have the tool that you can attach to the high pressure hose that has wheels and you can go about 4 times faster with and it is much easier on my back and legs . I sit on a stool half of the time when I use it . It does a pretty good job on Flat surfaces like concrete driveways and wooden decks . That still leaves the problem of being in the sun with 85 F to 90 F temps. but I handle that to some degree .

Harry

- GT

 

[5K Qs]

Holey Blades, Batman!!

Nice pair! An Esquire is on my key ring, so is always with me. The sad part is that it is your only Wenger!

I get almost all my SAKs second-hand at gun & knife shows, and almost never see anything other than Victorinox. I wonder if it's a regional thing and Wenger didn't have distributors in my neck of the woods?
I like the scissors on the Esquire better than those on Vic Classic, and the Esquire puts the blade on opposite end from key ring which is also a plus.

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Victorious Viper, Bob!
Do you have a date with Debby??

A1 humpback whittler, FBC!

Jim, as usual, you're barking with the big dogs regarding your daily carries!

When you think it's hot August arrives to remind you that there's weeks more to come...

Cool photo!
I think last Thursday was the first day for us to have sunset before 9pm this summer, and I told my wife we have at most 2 warm months left, and it's only a matter of time until it's cold and dark by suppertime. Hate to see summer go!

It's a tough day for our family. We have to say goodbye to my son's 13-year-old Vizsla. She's had cancer for a while and been on pain meds and it's just time to say goodbye. She's been with him and his wife since before they were married and has been there every day with their 3 children. They have another dog and I'm sure it will affect him also. My wife and I said our goodbyes yesterday. We both love Molly and she was a good companion to us also. Today the vet will come to their home and put her to sleep. My heart is breaking for them as I know the pain they are going through.
I'll carry this one today but my mind is with them.

Tough time for everybody, Gary, but it's the right thing to do!

Bought a new knife tother week.

It identifies as a scout knife.




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Cool knife, John! I like carrying a knife with a spike.

Really nice stockman, Gary, I think one of Case's very best releases from the last decade or so. I've got Roper in pocket right now at home, but will be switching to my Case 75, courtesy of Matt_WY, when I go back out.

Thanks, Jeff; the Case '47 is an ideal size IMHO.
Notable pair of carries for you!

Took the peanut with me to the periodontist for a routine appointment. I had considered doing some mowing when I got back, but the car's thermometer was fluctuating between 96-98F
So rather than mow, I thought I'd better see what was happening on the Porch
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That reminds me of those "circus peanut" orange marshmallowy candies.
Haven't had one in ages, but I used to think those were quite a treat. Not sure why, because IIRC they were kind of tasteless.

Beautiful stag on yours


My carry on Monday
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Another exceptional sowbelly stockman!

- GT

 

[321Bandaid]

 

[echoscout]

 

[Rufus1949]

Victorious Viper, Bob!
Do you have a date with Debby??
- GT

First, Gary, to digress to an earlier post...I love match strike nail nicks, for their form and function.

Debby and others will bring on our practiced routine. Move cars to higher ground and batten down the hatches.

 

[Primble]

I won't need the small knife today, but I carried the Parker space lambsfoot instead of the Henckels pen yesterday.

Always a pleasure to see the Shuttle knife.

Well, if that isn't just the coolest

Learned something new and isn't even noon yet

Don't feel bad. I questioned that unusual blade shape at first. Robeson called that blade a Carpenter's blade and also used it in a stockman knife that was stamped "Mechanics" on the main blade ....... although it was placed on the other end of the knife. It is in that catalog picture as well, middle bottom.

I can imagine that someone that did leather crafting or whittling would have found that pointy blade very useful.

 

[paulhilborn]

That's a beauty Paul !

Thanks Steve and back at ya with your pair

It’s one thing to buy a new knife, keep it in it’s tube, unused and unsharpened. But to see 80 to 100 year old knives in such unmolested condition is a real treat

I agree Jeff, we often say "if these knives could talk" but I imagine some were carried and cared for and others carried and used hard...still cared for but they were a tool, so as long as they were oiled and sharpened they weren't nesecarily fawn'd over

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

@5KQs~ Since you brought it up, every time one of you guys show those Rough Rider knives and their …unique nail nicks, I see an eye with false eyelashes.

Wenger vs Victorinox…
You nailed a couple things in favor of the Esquire vs. the Classic. And it’s bigger, so handier for me.
Both Vic and Wenger are great. Just enough small variations to make it interesting. Kinda like the variations in Electrician’s Knives.
Both were declared “official” by the Swiss govt, but I guess Victorinox outmarketed Wenger, which maybe explains why they were able to swallow the brand?

 

[Modoc ED]

We're off to town in a few. Breakfast at the Wagon Wheel - biscuits and gravy. I'm gonna tote a Case 6235 1/2 in my pocket and the RRR Hawkeye Hawkbill in a sheath on my belt.

 

[waynorth]

Schrade Cut. Co. Premium Stockman and a Robeson "CraftsMan" knife for Wednesday.

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Pretty Pocketful, Mr.P!!!

 

[black mamba]

Rufus, nice combo and backdrop!
SteveC, love seeing Old Spalty!
Primble, the pick-bone is glorious!
321Bandaid, lovely K'roo!

I'm blue today as well, with Roper in pocket.

 

[Rufus1949]

Rufus, nice combo and backdrop!
SteveC, love seeing Old Spalty!
Primble, the pick-bone is glorious!
321Bandaid, lovely K'roo!

I'm blue today as well, with Roper in pocket.

Thanks kindly Jeff. Those ropers are true eye candy.

 

[pmek5]

 

[Johnnythefox]

Holey Blades, Batman!!


I get almost all my SAKs second-hand at gun & knife shows, and almost never see anything other than Victorinox. I wonder if it's a regional thing and Wenger didn't have distributors in my neck of the woods?
I like the scissors on the Esquire better than those on Vic Classic, and the Esquire puts the blade on opposite end from key ring which is also a plus.


Victorious Viper, Bob!
Do you have a date with Debby??


A1 humpback whittler, FBC!


Jim, as usual, you're barking with the big dogs regarding your daily carries!


Cool photo!
I think last Thursday was the first day for us to have sunset before 9pm this summer, and I told my wife we have at most 2 warm months left, and it's only a matter of time until it's cold and dark by suppertime. Hate to see summer go!


Tough time for everybody, Gary, but it's the right thing to do!


Cool knife, John! I like carrying a knife with a spike.


Thanks, Jeff; the Case '47 is an ideal size IMHO.
Notable pair of carries for you!


That reminds me of those "circus peanut" orange marshmallowy candies.
Haven't had one in ages, but I used to think those were quite a treat. Not sure why, because IIRC they were kind of tasteless.


Another exceptional sowbelly stockman!

- GT

Thanks, I am always impressed with your multi quoting powers, it baffles me how to do it so I wont ever try.

 

[Johnnythefox]

Rob, do you still have the birdhouse? Maybe you can get a quick shot of a knife against the birdhouse for old times' sake (or just post an old photo with that background board if you still have one).

The RR match strike nail nicks are a little bit like the New York Yankees, I guess. When I was a kid everyone either loved or hated the Yankees (I was a hater). With RR nail nicks, folks either hate 'em or don't even notice them, I think. (Don't hear many people saying they love them.)


Thanks for the landscaping update; cool wildflowers! Best wishes as your plans unfold!


Cool old knife with a gleaming edge, Rachel!
We still plan to vacation for a couple of weeks in Michigan's Upper Peninsula each year. We've always gone up on the first Saturday in August for the past 30+ years. That would have been last Saturday, but my wife had decided a year ago that she wanted to try going a little later since I didn't have to worry about school starting in September. So we made reservations at our usual spot for a couple weeks starting on the Saturday after Labor Day. Then earlier this year, she discovered that a rental place just across the lagoon from where we've always gone had an opening and we could take our dog with us if we stayed there. So she ended up changing our reservations to that new place for the last 2 weeks of August. We had to forfeit our deposit on the other place, but the deposit was smaller than what we usually pay to board the dog. (And the past couple of years the dog ended up with hefty vet bills post-vacation. I don't think he does too well spending a couple weeks without us.)


Hope you get completely healthy and caught up at work ASAP.
That's a first-rate engineers knife! WW2 vintage?


Harvey's shots were well-lit with cool knives and tempting desserts!
I think when my grandpa grew beets, they were sold to companies that wanted to make sugar. My wife still sends me to the grocery store for a bag of sugar with instructions to get CANE sugar, not BEET sugar. I think the beet tops got fed to the cows and/or pigs (and maybe horses?). I'll eat anything if it's mixed in with everything else, but I sure won't sit down to enjoy a bowl of beets, no matter how much older I get.


If I were going to get a motorcycle, I'd have to get one like this, I think. It looks small enough that I'd be able to pick it back up on its wheel after I inevitably tipped it over someplace.





Articulate and persuasive argument, Frank.


Fine pair of knives, and I really like the knob on your stick! Is the knob part of an old horse harness?




- GT

Little red MV Augustus are as hot as babes on the beach in the south of France, excuse my rampant 70s sexism.

 

[Boattale]

Just to be able to post in this thread again, I changed up all the knives. But the knipex stays. It's just such a handy tool, use it nearly every day. The Craftsman is a pretty decent knife actually. One of very few I have with a blade etch.

 

[Johnnythefox]

the last photo makes me recall my memory in Birmingham

Birmingham England or Birmingham Alabama?

 

[Johnnythefox]

Just to be able to post in this thread again, I changed up all the knives. But the knipex stays. It's just such a handy tool, use it nearly every day. The Craftsman is a pretty decent knife actually. One of very few I have with a blade etch.
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Love my Knipex and love that song by JCM even more.

 

[Pt-Luso]