What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[pat9198]

Last year’s forum knife for now.

 

[losttime]

Carrying the 77 streaked ebony.

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

Nice to see a man keep his boots shined,ne er know when you gotta go to town.

Special for church
Boots put me in the mood for country bends and bluegrass runs!

 

[315]

I was bored today so I took a little drive up to Mt St Helens

 

[5K Qs]

This Bicentennial Boker yesterday.
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Nice knife, Jer!
Is that plaque with the Lazarus sonnet still posted in the Statue of Liberty, or was it removed sometime in the past as immigration laws changed?

Yesterday I had the micarta & stag combo in pocket, for today its a celluloid and jigged bone pairing.

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Quality quartet, Greg!
If I were asked to rank them, I'd put the stag whittler with spear main in the top spot.

Lunar lamb

Jigging Jackpot!

Vic 7 and Camillus 72
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I've worn this Wenger wristwatch every day since Vik gave it to me around 30 years ago. Not so common since the dawning of the smartfone addiction, I guess, but I feel lost without it. Sign of being an old guy? The battery died while we were in Georgia, so it's off to the jeweler for my annual visit to have him put a new one in.
I cannot estimate how many times I've looked at the bare, untanned back of my wrist since Saturday.

Notable pair of knives, Jeff, and a wondrous Wenger watch!
How many watchbands have you gone through in 30 years?
I laughed about your looking at your wrist. "Don't it always seem to go that we don't know what we've got till it's gone?"
When I was teaching, there was a clock on the wall in the classroom, and I thought I rarely looked at it. But on the few occasions that the clocks all across campus quit working or had incorrect time, I realized that I apparently glance at the clock at least a dozen times in a 50-minute period.

A Camillus Jack and a Joseph Rodgers Lamb

Another dynamic duo, Steve; beautiful bone!

After a long drive yesterday, resting up to become an official Georgian tomorrow!
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Congrats on your change of state, Bob!
Here's how scientists describe it: A change of state is a physical change in a matter. They are reversible changes and do not involve any changes in the chemical makeup of the matter.

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Jaw-dropping!

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What a sight to see 2 little signets swimming with mom and dad,when tired they crawled onto moms back for a boat ride.
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JTF top tip,when it’s raining don’t wear a mesh baseball cap.
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Great photos of the swan family, John!
You should compile your tips and advise and post them all in the same location for the edification of us all!

One for Wooden Wednesday and one trying to Horn in ...

65LB Ebony 2012

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That big GEC lockback copperhead is a cool customer, Jim!

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That big Buck is a beauty, Bob!
Are you carrying larger knives until you get to know your new neighborhood?

She got them off the kitchen counter.

Clever girl, that Abby!

Yes, I believe so. Over in the Harness Jack thread, @black mamba referred to it as "barnboard" celluloid. I hadn't heard that term before, but it does seem to fit.

Thanks for expanding my vocabulary, Rachel (and Jeff)!

- GT

 

[5K Qs]

Thanks! The Barlow is somewhat of an acquired taste I guess. It is pocket friendly, f&f is as good as I’ve seen on a RR. Steel liners and the stone wash on the blade give it some jazz. No wobble or play at all. Slicey out of the box. I kinda wish it was just a tad bit bigger. Overall, a good purchase.

Thanks for the detailed feedback!
I'm not a rabid fan of Barlows, either, and I think it's partly because most of the vintage ones I've seen are about 3 3/8" closed (except the Grandaddy ones), and my preference is for knives 3.5" or more.

Thanks for asking, Gary, I've progressed nicely in the last twelve days. 1st photo two days after surgery, 2nd photo just now, 12 days later. Bruising is all gone,
color returning to normal and down to a little steri strip which is about to wear off. I reloaded 120 45 Colt cartridges today with no pain on a single stage press.

I decided to start carrying the recent forum stockman a lot more, and had it with me today when we went to Costco. Cut some pizza with it, but still not much color yet.

Thanks, Bob, I still have a slight loss of feel in it, but the Doc says it should return to normal with time. Nerves take a while to regenerate.

Glad the recovery is going well, Jeff!
Probably would have recovered faster 30 years ago, but you didn't need the surgery then.

I’m not entirely sure but I will check!

Thanks.

That is a 3 spring 47 that she picked up a couple years back. We had taken a family trip to the Arkansas Ozarks, and on the way back stopped at a large Case dealership in Missouri. She was very pleased that she got to pick that knife out of the hundreds that they had for sale. She knows that I often carry a stockman, so she really likes carrying a knife that "has the same blades as yours". It has been her favorite knife since she got it.

As for me, I carried this Queen made Winchester slimline trapper to the dentist office today. I want a stockman to be my favorite pattern, but I can't deny that the humble trapper is just about the perfect knife. I can't imagine a scenario that I could handle that a trapper couldn't.

Wow! She has great taste IMHO, since the x347 is my favorite Case stockman (except for sowbelly), and I got myself a 6347 with those quad-lined bolsters for my 70th birthday a few years ago.

In my experience, it's hard to commit permanently to any single pattern. Although I have more canoes and sowbelly stockmans than any other pattern, but I'm always very fond of almost any knife I happen to be using.

Heavenly Horn (and nice shots of Buffalo Bob)!

Two good slicers, Case & Imperial currently in pocket.

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Terrific toothpick, Zach!

Road trip to Canons Ashby,wearing a new tee shirt.
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Love the shirt, John, but what have you done with your hair??

It is a very nice stadium but has been a little controversial this season as the A’s haven’t been playing well there and are saying it is because the stadium is AAA and not up to major league standards. What you see in the picture is not a green monster. It Is a batter’s eye, put there so there is nothing distracting in the batter’s view while they are batting. A home run just has to clear the fence below, not the whole thing.

Yes, she’s been showing the same rabbit for five years or so. She hasn’t read Watership Down, nor have I. I’ll have to suggest it to her and we can both read it.

Thanks for the batter's eye info, Bart!
Watership Down was published in the early 1970's, I think; leave it to a geezer to recommend a 50-year-old novel. I think it was marketed as a children's or young adult book, but I enjoyed it when I read it in the early 90s as a 40-something guy.

Speaking of 40-something, today was our 40th wedding anniversary, and neither my wife nor I remembered until the middle of the afternoon when our daughter sent a congratulatory email. (When I got up this morning, I noticed it was June 1, and had a feeling that the date was important, but it's too early for Father's Day (6/15) or a sister's birthday (6/14) or a brother's birthday (6/24).)

- GT

 

[Sitcomdad83]

Buck canoe 301 was the model I think.

 

[sf fanatic]

Thanks for the detailed feedback!
I'm not a rabid fan of Barlows, either, and I think it's partly because most of the vintage ones I've seen are about 3 3/8" closed (except the Grandaddy ones), and my preference is for knives 3.5" or more.



Glad the recovery is going well, Jeff!
Probably would have recovered faster 30 years ago, but you didn't need the surgery then.


Thanks.


Wow! She has great taste IMHO, since the x347 is my favorite Case stockman (except for sowbelly), and I got myself a 6347 with those quad-lined bolsters for my 70th birthday a few years ago.

In my experience, it's hard to commit permanently to any single pattern. Although I have more canoes and sowbelly stockmans than any other pattern, but I'm always very fond of almost any knife I happen to be using.


Heavenly Horn (and nice shots of Buffalo Bob)!


Terrific toothpick, Zach!


Love the shirt, John, but what have you done with your hair??


Thanks for the batter's eye info, Bart!
Watership Down was published in the early 1970's, I think; leave it to a geezer to recommend a 50-year-old novel. I think it was marketed as a children's or young adult book, but I enjoyed it when I read it in the early 90s as a 40-something guy.

Speaking of 40-something, today was our 40th wedding anniversary, and neither my wife nor I remembered until the middle of the afternoon when our daughter sent a congratulatory email. (When I got up this morning, I noticed it was June 1, and had a feeling that the date was important, but it's too early for Father's Day (6/15) or a sister's birthday (6/14) or a brother's birthday (6/24).)

- GT

Congrats GT! Our 41st is coming up in August. We both have forgotten the date more than once in the last several years

 

[screened porch]

Is that plaque with the Lazarus sonnet still posted in the Statue of Liberty, or was it removed sometime in the past as immigration laws changed?

I think it's still there for the time being. I don't know.

 

[Cory Hess]

Wow! She has great taste IMHO, since the x347 is my favorite Case stockman (except for sowbelly), and I got myself a 6347 with those quad-lined bolsters for my 70th birthday a few years ago.
In my experience, it's hard to commit permanently to any single pattern. Although I have more canoes and sowbelly stockmans than any other pattern, but I'm always very fond of almost any knife I happen to be using.

I too have a hard time committing to a single pattern, but judging by my pile of knives I'm pretty partial to trappers and stockmen. I agree with you that this one of hers is an exceptional example. It started out with some rough edges that I wasn't a fan of, but those have worn smooth with some pocket time.

I had a long (10 1/2 hours) day at church today, and had this S&M mini trapper in my pocket:

I happened by this picture of it from when it was still a newborn. Picked it up from the Queen open house that they used to run at the same time as the GEC rendezvous. She is showing some signs of use, as there have been years where this knife was in my pocket every day. I'm more fond of her today than I was in 2016.

 

[majorpain1]

Been awhile since I did Sawcut Sunday

 

[afishhunter]

Adding to pocket. 1911-1921 Robeson 622119 English Jack.

 

[echoscout]

 

[mitch13]

Special for church
Boots put me in the mood for country bends and bluegrass runs!

nothing wrong with a bit of polish
did my 19yr olds boots for her last week.

 

[mitch13]

Stag & bone today.

 

[brokebladeenthusiast28]

 

[BrotherJim]

Metal Monday

 

[Rufus1949]

Thanks for the detailed feedback!
I'm not a rabid

Speaking of 40-something, today was our 40th wedding anniversary, and neither my wife nor I remembered until the middle of the afternoon when our daughter sent a congratulatory email.
- GT

Congrats Gary, a milestone worth celebrating, if one can remember.

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[Rufus1949]

Notable pair of knives, Jeff, and a wondrous Wenger watch!
How many watchbands have you gone through in 30 years?
I laughed about your looking at your wrist. "Don't it always seem to go that we don't know what we've got till it's gone?"




Congrats on your change of state, Bob!
Here's how scientists describe it: A change of state is a physical change in a matter. They are reversible changes and do not involve any changes in the chemical makeup of the matter.


That big Buck is a beauty, Bob!
Are you carrying larger knives until you get to know your new neighborhood?

- GT

Thanks Gary. I was hoping for a mental change, as well. Looking forward to a slower pace of life.
The buck is minor deterent, but I have more persuasive items close by.
Actually, many are retired military, and seem very friendly.