What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

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sf fanatic said:
GT, the first thing my dad did when my brother and I moved out was to buy a snow blower for the winter and a riding lawnmower summer. Don’t miss those days and is one of the reasons I love the Mediterranean weather in San Francisco!
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Dan, I've never minded mowing lawn, but usually that's at most once a week, and I've always had a mower with a little Briggs & Stratton engine. I have to push it around the yard , but it's WAY better than the old-school reel mowers people used to push around. But I sometimes shovel snow 2 or 3 times a day!
Best wishes to you and to your medical team for your ablation. :thumbsup::thumbsup::cool:

Hickory n steel said:
I'm thinking I may eventually find another and see about having Glennbad recover it in stag.
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That would definitely be a step up in class! :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Rufus1949 said:
Who needs a gym, when you live in a snow belt!!?

Thanks Gary, unfortunately it is not bone.😔
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My neighbor behind me, with driveway right next to mine onto the alley beside our houses, often asks me when I'll get a snow blower. (He has a pretty sweet Cub Cadet, I think.) I basically give him your answer, that shoveling is part of my exercise program. I used to also tell him I didn't have anywhere to keep a snow blower, but since we only have one car in our 2-stall garage, that excuse is no longer relevant.

Your knife may not be bone, but I thought it was quite bone-like! :thumbsup:;):thumbsup:

unclekurty said:
Best knife poem I have had the pleasure to read Gary. Yes it is relatively new to me and my only Canoe. I like your collection of Canoes and especially like some of the fancy RR’s you have. This one has two springs so a single spring is on my list. I’m going display my lack of knowledge here. So CASE came up with this pattern? How is a Copperhead related? Is a Copperhead a bare headed Canoe? It seems I mainly see single spring Canoes. Is it easier to make a knife with a sunken joint or with a Canoe bolster? When you lollygag these are questions that come to mind…maybe. Here’s a pic with the blades open.
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Thanks for the additional photo, Kurt. I was quite sure your main blade was NOT a spearpoint, which is quite standard for a canoe, but I didn't realize your secondary blade was NOT a typical-for-canoe pen blade. :cool::cool::thumbsup:
I don't know much about the history/origin of the canoe pattern, but Case has made them for a long time. I have lots of canoe knives, but only a few of mine have single spring; my impression is that single-spring canoes used to be more common "in olden times", while the majority of canoes today are 2-spring models.
I sometimes refer to a copperhead as a half-canoe because it has the canoe-style joint-covering bolster on only one end, but I don't know if they're really related. Most canoes have spear/pen blade combo with a blade at each end, while copperheads often have a clip/skinner (or drop point) blade combo, both on the same end with the canoe-style bolster. I have a few copperheads, and they all have an end cap on the end opposite the pivot, so NOT bareheaded. (Then you have mini copperheads, which have a blade on each end, with a canoe-style bolster on the end where the secondary blade pivots, and a "normal" bolster on the end anchoring the main blade.

Amir Fleschwund said:
Thank you!
"Times it" by two😗

Although there was a nugget of truth in my comment about mourning the passing of winter, based mainly in reflection on how fast time goes by the older I get (Einstein's theory of relativity in action), I was being facetious. Too subtle, obviously. 🫢

Beautiful brick house, by the way🤙

Being crammed in among neighbors does make it challenging to find places to pile snow, but I guess you have less grass to cut, so there's that.😉
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Jeff, you don't have to be very subtle to be too subtle for a guy like me! 🤓
On behalf of my neighbors, I'll thanks you for the compliment on their brick house, which often appears in knife photos I take in my back yard.
According to the story I heard from the guy who was vice president of the college when they hired me, his father built both the neighbors' house (for a medical doctor) and the house that I own (which I think is also a handsome brick "Tudor" style, but not as big and fancy). His father built houses for a living, and used "left-over" materials from some of his jobs when he built his own house. That explains some odd "mismatched" features in our house. (The vice president worked for the OSS during WWII, and when I knew him, he and his wife lived in a quite small house a couple blocks from me. I wonder if he resented a young punk like me buying the house in which he grew up.)

Pt-Luso said:
Thanks, Gary.👍
This wood is not from a barrel, but from the Boker Schloss Burg knife series, comprising seven traditional knife styles steeped in history. Apart from the scales of historic oak wood sourced from Burg Castle. ;)
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Thanks for the information, José. :) I didn't think the shield on your knife looked like the ones used on the Beer Barrel Bökers.

mbkr said:
Thanks Gary. I spoke to specialist's #2 office yesterday and got an appointment scheduled for April 24. When I said, "That far out?" She said, "We're actually scheduling in July, but had an opening so we're going to fit you in." 😲 At this point I'm hopeful to get something firm going by summer 😬 That said, it could be so much worse...so far nobody's carved any chunks out of me or removed anything important 🤞
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Keeping as much of your "original equipment" for as long as you can seems like a worthy goal, Mike! :thumbsup::cool:🤓 I'm rooting for you!

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
Dan, I've never minded mowing lawn, but usually that's at most once a week, and I've always had a mower with a little Briggs & Stratton engine. I have to push it around the yard , but it's WAY better than the old-school reel mowers people used to push around. But I sometimes shovel snow 2 or 3 times a day!
Best wishes to you and to your medical team for your ablation. :thumbsup::thumbsup::cool:


That would definitely be a step up in class! :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup:


My neighbor behind me, with driveway right next to mine onto the alley beside our houses, often asks me when I'll get a snow blower. (He has a pretty sweet Cub Cadet, I think.) I basically give him your answer, that shoveling is part of my exercise program. I used to also tell him I didn't have anywhere to keep a snow blower, but since we only have one car in our 2-stall garage, that excuse is no longer relevant.

Your knife may not be bone, but I thought it was quite bone-like! :thumbsup:;):thumbsup:


Thanks for the additional photo, Kurt. I was quite sure your main blade was NOT a spearpoint, which is quite standard for a canoe, but I didn't realize your secondary blade was NOT a typical-for-canoe pen blade. :cool::cool::thumbsup:
I don't know much about the history/origin of the canoe pattern, but Case has made them for a long time. I have lots of canoe knives, but only a few of mine have single spring; my impression is that single-spring canoes used to be more common "in olden times", while the majority of canoes today are 2-spring models.
I sometimes refer to a copperhead as a half-canoe because it has the canoe-style joint-covering bolster on only one end, but I don't know if they're really related. Most canoes have spear/pen blade combo with a blade at each end, while copperheads often have a clip/skinner (or drop point) blade combo, both on the same end with the canoe-style bolster. I have a few copperheads, and they all have an end cap on the end opposite the pivot, so NOT bareheaded. (Then you have mini copperheads, which have a blade on each end, with a canoe-style bolster on the end where the secondary blade pivots, and a "normal" bolster on the end anchoring the main blade.


Jeff, you don't have to be very subtle to be too subtle for a guy like me! 🤓
On behalf of my neighbors, I'll thanks you for the compliment on their brick house, which often appears in knife photos I take in my back yard.
According to the story I heard from the guy who was vice president of the college when they hired me, his father built both the neighbors' house (for a medical doctor) and the house that I own (which I think is also a handsome brick "Tudor" style, but not as big and fancy). His father built houses for a living, and used "left-over" materials from some of his jobs when he built his own house. That explains some odd "mismatched" features in our house. (The vice president worked for the OSS during WWII, and when I knew him, he and his wife lived in a quite small house a couple blocks from me. I wonder if he resented a young punk like me buying the house in which he grew up.)


Thanks for the information, José. :) I didn't think the shield on your knife looked like the ones used on the Beer Barrel Bökers.


Keeping as much of your "original equipment" for as long as you can seems like a worthy goal, Mike! :thumbsup::cool:🤓 I'm rooting for you!

- GT
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Thanks GT!
 
Hoffmajo89 said:
I don’t know why your pics have such trouble showing for me, I can’t see this one either… but I’m still gonna give a “like” because I know your collection is insane
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Thanks homie. I use a postimage direct link. It's probably the link that makes my pics wonky. Here's an attachment.

And, outstanding work on the 3 piece 39 you built! That thing is crazy!!
 

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