What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[SteveC]

Lamb and a Jack

 

[Primble]

Starting this Thursday morning with coffee and turkeys. The gunstock is sporting poplar burl covers.
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I counted more critters in your covers than behind it !

 

[Primble]

International Knife of the Week is an oak Opignel that my daughter bought for me in Spain:



- GT

Always love to see the three little pigs Opignel !
From your daughter makes it even more special, I expect.

 

[Honest_Thomas]

I’m not doing very well at refraining from posting this on every single thread going

Thursday's totes

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Really nice images

 

[BrotherJim]

Texas Jack is growing on me ...

 

[holo07]

 

[screened porch]

and

 

[Crappie71]

 

[sunknife]

Hopelessly behind here on the forum. Work, family and life in general have me hopping, but things are more than good here and I feel blessed for that.
I hope all our friends here and everyone in the southeast affected by the hurricane finds hope and recovery from the tragedy that has hit them.

Copperhead in waterfall cell and a bone single spear blade are in my pocket for a couple days.

 

[5K Qs]

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Fancy knife and a slip to match, Chris!

Nice sowbelly, GT! I'm still hunting for one of those myself.

Thanks, Chris.
Good luck in your search! I occasionally look for them (just curious, I guess, but I also look for yellow delrin Case sowbelly, and for bonestag sowbelly, and for nice wood sowbelly) and they seem to be pretty dang thin on the ground.

A little Mammoth for Monday. Have a good one!

Oxymoron Alert!
Cool knife, Gary!

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Multi Metal Monday Models, Bob!

Today’s work companion is a Buck script 501 that I won a few years back here in a very generous giveaway from @lambertiana

Classy Buck lockback!

Fish Friday swims right into Metal Monday without missing a stroke. What a knife

Clever caption for your photo, Jim!

I love this knife!!! Picked this up at a knife show this past weekend. It's a four line Camillus Army Utility knife and it looks outstanding for how old this is. Walk and talk is perfect, a solid 7 pulls, I love this knife. So the hunt continues for another camillus.
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Congrats on your recent find; what a beauty!

It'll grow back!

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Good-looking lamb and a hearty breakfast , but where are the vegetables??? (Or is that cucumber (?) on top right yours?)

"Berry" arrived today and in the pocket he goes . . .

Berry is "the berries", Jeff!

After we got everything cleared away, the damage was much less than we feared. We were very fortunate. No need to get insurance involved for us.

Good news!

They’ve been workin hard this fall

I like knives that have bails/shackles on them like your RR camp knife and Camillus Electrician!

Seductive sowbelly; nice bonestag!

Thanks! It's a full-size, and I don't think there's any difference from the mini except for size.

Thanks for the info, Jer.
I was afraid there wasn't some foolproof way to tell from a photo whether the knife was big or mini copperlock.

Nice cattle knife! Looks almost unused except for the stains on the blades.

Gary, your daughter has very good taste. Great horn.
I can see myself carrying a blade like your watchman while sailing.

Thanks, Bob. I dragged my daughter into 10 or 12 knife shops when I visited her in Spain 10 years ago, and in most, she served as my translator, so she picked up on some of the things I look for in a knife.

I'm a sucker for those anchor shields, even though I'm not very nautical. What I'd REALLY like to find sometime is a knife (in my price range) with a Camargue cross (Cross/Anchor/Heart representing Faith/Hope/Love) for a shield. Something kind of like this:
http://thelandlessgentry.blogspot.com/2018/05/gentlemans-knife-review-no2-camarguais.html

Thanks, we appreciate it. It wasn't too bad of clean up & the repairs to our house were simple enough for me to fix without getting insurance involved. My grandfathers property is another story. We got the trees cleaned up off the vehicles & equipment moved out. He's talking with the insurance company & dealing with that now. They're going to cover most of it from what I hear.

Glad insurance isn't trying to pull some kind of "act of God" exception!

A new addition. I need another knife like I need a hole in my head. I couldn't help myself!

Handsome knife, Gary; congrats!
French, oui? Reminds me a little of a saddlehorn pattern.

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Pretty amazing that you could track those all down; a set of knives to be very proud of!!

I have some good memories of roaming junkyards getting pieces I needed. Never an entire engine, but spindles, wiper motors, pulleys, starters… best part was just poking around. Carry a tool belt with tools, and pay a few bucks for your treasures on your way out.
Cash For Clunkers destroyed the used car parts world.

Back on the farm, there was a guy who lived a half mile up the road who had at least 10 acres of junkyard, mostly vehicles and farm machinery. One of my younger brothers spent many hours, and few dollars, in his teens searching that junkyard for parts he needed for his various automotive "experiments". (He ended up spending his career as a mechanic at GM's Tech Center, and now mostly restores Corvettes in his retirement. I think that more than makes up for all the almost worthless GM stock he acquired as "retirement plan" over the years.)

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Cool photo!
(Great candidate for the Knives and Toys thread, too. )

Notable pair, Mitch!

I'm carrying my *L-2* knives today.

Tyson, it took me a while, but I eventually figured out why those were *L-2* knives!

I can’t stop buyin Camilluses… or Cheez Whiz!

Splendid knife!
(I probably haven't thought about Cheez Whiz (or Velveeta) in at least 50 years!)

Nice canoe, GT, really like the quad-lined bolsters. Been carrying Berry here at home, but heading to the shooting range shortly with my Vaquero and #86.

Thanks, Jeff; the quad-lined bolsters are definitely a plus!
Superb pair of knives you posted!

Almost halfway there.

Couple of charismatic covers right there, Jeremy!

Classy half-congress, Michael!
(At least, I think of it as a half-congress. )

Midday switch-a-roo!
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"Get a TRM Neutron! They're SUPER slicey!" - @sbh06
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Chris, isn't a Neutron knife the kind that cuts human flesh but nothing else (kind of analogous to a neutron bomb)?

- GT

 

[BullRome]

October pockets…

 

[Peregrin]

Oxymoron Alert!
Cool knife, Gary!

If anyone would catch that I knew you would, Gary! Thanks!

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

Good-looking lamb and a hearty breakfast , but where are the vegetables??? (Or is that cucumber (?) on top right yours?)

There are mushrooms, they kinda count

 

[Hatchet_Jack]

People ask “Jack how do you handle no sleep and crazy kids and still function”

Lots of this stuff!

 

[mitch13]

A fine pairing.

 

[Jakeywax31]

Long time no post. Hope everyone is doing well. Got this nice old TEW that Glenn worked his magic on and the speyed bunny knife tonight for my shift.

 

[KentuckyBlackBird]

A couple of pawn shop junk box finds, all for under $8 total. Both are USA made and not too bad. I had to work the profile out on the main on the electrician. It had been ground on and all but ruined. Glad I could bring it back around. The Ranger is a 3 springer. Gonna be good work knives!

 

[peanutsxx]

Fancy knife and a slip to match, Chris!


Thanks, Chris.
Good luck in your search! I occasionally look for them (just curious, I guess, but I also look for yellow delrin Case sowbelly, and for bonestag sowbelly, and for nice wood sowbelly) and they seem to be pretty dang thin on the ground.


Oxymoron Alert!
Cool knife, Gary!


Multi Metal Monday Models, Bob!


Classy Buck lockback!


Clever caption for your photo, Jim!


Congrats on your recent find; what a beauty!





Good-looking lamb and a hearty breakfast , but where are the vegetables??? (Or is that cucumber (?) on top right yours?)


Berry is "the berries", Jeff!


Good news!


I like knives that have bails/shackles on them like your RR camp knife and Camillus Electrician!


Seductive sowbelly; nice bonestag!


Thanks for the info, Jer.
I was afraid there wasn't some foolproof way to tell from a photo whether the knife was big or mini copperlock.


Nice cattle knife! Looks almost unused except for the stains on the blades.


Thanks, Bob. I dragged my daughter into 10 or 12 knife shops when I visited her in Spain 10 years ago, and in most, she served as my translator, so she picked up on some of the things I look for in a knife.

I'm a sucker for those anchor shields, even though I'm not very nautical. What I'd REALLY like to find sometime is a knife (in my price range) with a Camargue cross (Cross/Anchor/Heart representing Faith/Hope/Love) for a shield. Something kind of like this:
http://thelandlessgentry.blogspot.com/2018/05/gentlemans-knife-review-no2-camarguais.html


Glad insurance isn't trying to pull some kind of "act of God" exception!


Handsome knife, Gary; congrats!
French, oui? Reminds me a little of a saddlehorn pattern.


Pretty amazing that you could track those all down; a set of knives to be very proud of!!


Back on the farm, there was a guy who lived a half mile up the road who had at least 10 acres of junkyard, mostly vehicles and farm machinery. One of my younger brothers spent many hours, and few dollars, in his teens searching that junkyard for parts he needed for his various automotive "experiments". (He ended up spending his career as a mechanic at GM's Tech Center, and now mostly restores Corvettes in his retirement. I think that more than makes up for all the almost worthless GM stock he acquired as "retirement plan" over the years.)


Cool photo!
(Great candidate for the Knives and Toys thread, too. )


Notable pair, Mitch!


Tyson, it took me a while, but I eventually figured out why those were *L-2* knives!


Splendid knife!
(I probably haven't thought about Cheez Whiz (or Velveeta) in at least 50 years!)


Thanks, Jeff; the quad-lined bolsters are definitely a plus!
Superb pair of knives you posted!


Couple of charismatic covers right there, Jeremy!


Classy half-congress, Michael!
(At least, I think of it as a half-congress. )


Chris, isn't a Neutron knife the kind that cuts human flesh but nothing else (kind of analogous to a neutron bomb)?

- GT

Thanks Gary! Half-congress works for the pattern too, I think.

 

[Sacto]

Looks like your out in the high lonesome Bart. Cool knife and pic.

Awesome

Thanks David. Not too high or lonesome. Barely outside of town on a little hill by the barn watching the sun rise over the pasture. Good way to spend a morning.

Locking Knife of the Week is a Boker USA linesman's knife (thanks, Mark):


International Knife of the Week is an oak Opignel that my daughter bought for me in Spain:



- GT

Very cool Boker, Gary. I don’t see those too often.

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I have one of those and I still love seeing pictures of them. Great knife

 

[majorpain1]