The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Thanks Harry!
I remember starters on the floor board also. Tractors with hand clutches and many other things. Aw the good old daysYes, there's an unfortunately large list missing from the current generation... Man do I sound like I'm getting old now...
I know some of y'all may consider me a young pup on the porch, but I absolutely agree with you Rick.
I see that some kids today aren't even worried about getting a driver's license anymore. I don't know about y'all, but my dad was teaching me to drive out in an old horse pasture years before I went to get my license.
I learned all the fun stuff like the importance of those small triangle windows, manual transmissions (both on the floor & on the column), manual chokes & carburetors, how to deal with pre-power brakes & steering...
How about the high & low beam headlight switch on the floorboard!!! Stomp on = Stomp off!!!
How about a JC Penny spare tire!
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Maybe that's why these old traditional knives keep calling me. Not only the nostalgia but it's something that has more soul & beauty to it.
Anyway, here's an old pic to keep the knife conversation relevant. (Case Copperlock in the South Carolina Low Country)
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Ruger in a .35 Whelen
A belated Happy Birthday to Scout BarrettToday was my daughter Scout’s 5th birthday, which means I had her Nifebrite #15 “Scout” in my pocket (along with a burlap micarta #72).
Every year on my daughters’ birthdays, I carry the knife that I had in my pocket the day they were born, and for Scout, that was this #15. We also have a tradition of taking a picture of them with their knife every year, which I post here on the Porch, along with all the previous years’ pics, whether y’all want to see ‘em again or not.
This was Scout’s first knife pic.
First birthday:
Second birthday:
Third birthday:
Fourth birthday:
And here she is with her knife today, on her fifth birthday:
(Somehow the Bluey ears managed to make it into two years’ birthday pics.)
We had a pretty low-key day. Donuts for breakfast, then Scout went to preschool (we gave her the option to skip, but she wanted to celebrate with her friends). After that we went to the girls’ favorite toy shop so she could pick out one present on her own (which every kid’s birthday it isn’t always seems to end up with something, too). We picked up dinner from Chipotle (Scout’s choice) and watched the movie School of Rock (also her choice).
Great pics, I like all her T-shirts 
I'm carrying a unusual inter-War German-made Lambsfoot today Have a great week my friends 
This has the exact same handle, wood, and bolster as the spear bladed Loewenmesser Harry gave to me. Lovely knifeA belated Happy Birthday to Scout Barrett
I'm sorry I don't get a chance to post in this thread at the moment, work is keeping me busy, along with the Guardians thread of course
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By Maserin I'd guess (their Marinera model)Italy today
(German company but according to the salesman this model was manufactured for them in Italy.)
That's very interesting JeffThis has the exact same handle, wood, and bolster as the spear bladed Loewenmesser Harry gave to me. Lovely knife
I can relate to the constraints of Father Time. Good to have you pop in here, though.
Thank you my friend, I hope that I'll be able to post here regularly again before too long
You will never hear me denigrate DuPont's Delrin. And that is nice looking DelrinI’m carrying this delrin Case today. We’re headed to the A’s game tonight. The Angels are in town and my son is a huge fan. It’s pretty awesome to have Major League Baseball ten minutes from the house now.
I tend to roll my eyes at some of the modded-up handgun/tactical gun pics with knives, but there is something very aesthetically pleasing about a bolt action rifle with a wood grain stock, and a Buck folder. Probably a lot of nostalgia mixed in, but I think that I can smell this picture as well.
Thanks for the information, Jack. I'm not really knowledgeable about Italian knives. It is a very nice little knife.By Maserin I'd guess (their Marinera model)
