What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[brokebladeenthusiast28]

 

[Bloefield]

Serrated Spartan--viscously sharp

 

[timgiesel]

 

[pat9198]

 

[321Bandaid]

 

[TE59]

 

[black mamba]

 

[CVamberbonehead]

Today I’m carrying this railroad spike knife that I made the other day at a “try your hand at forging with our help” place near my house. They gave me a sheath with it but I do my own leatherwork (just took on my first custom piece the other day!!!) and so I gussied up the (passable I guess) sheath they gave me just for practice before I make my own.
I’m pretty proud of it!

 

[Modoc ED]

Turns out I didn't mow the backyard yesterday. It hit 101 by the time I got out there and I said the heck with it. Got two packages marked out for delivery so I'll just mess with them today. ???? for breakfast. In my pocket.

 

[sf fanatic]

Another foggy start to the day here in the City by the Bay! These two with a nod to Micarta Monday. Have a great week folks!

 

[kyhunt]

I’m getting boring. These two almost every day since getting them almost a month ago.

 

[mbkr]

 

[5K Qs]

Thanks Gary, I too, find it a tolerable 4" carry.

Bob, I was surprised how much I like the slimline trapper. It has only 1 blade, while I tend to prefer knives with 2 or more blades. The only blade it has is a clip point, which probably doesn't even make it into my Favorite Four of blade shapes. And it's too long, at least according to my early prejudices about knife length. But when I actually got a slimline trapper (as a gift) and started trying it out, I found it to be a very pleasant useful knife!

Thank you. Its a Lockwood brothers, Sheffield. They were made from 1865'ish-1890. I was lucky to find is as NOS. Post 1890 knives had their country of origion stamped on the tang after the 1890 McKinley Tariff Act.

For the blade stamp, the bird is a Greater Rhea. It's a flightless bird that predominantly roams the Pampas grasslands in South America.

Foreign counterfeiting was rampant back in the day, so Lockwood came up with this stamp, since most of their knives were targeting the South American market. They focused mainly on farmers and livestock workers in that region.

Heres a shot of the pile side covers.

Thanks for the extra info and photo!

Excellent knife and movie! Both knife and movie happen to be favorites of mine as well.

My favorite quote from the movie has to be Slim Pickens line “Someone’s got to go back and get a $&@* load of dimes!”

Thanks for the knife compliment. That's a little Imperial jack my wife got from her father when he got a new knife, and she gave it to me almost 12 years ago. It got me started carrying a jackknife again after 45 years of not having one in my pocket.
I also mentioned the movie to my wife yesterday, and she came up with the same quote you did, from when the bad guys came up to the toll booth the good guys had set up to slow down the bad guys' attack on the duplicate town.

Or the line from Jimi Hendrix in Purple Haze ~ Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Allegedly, many people misheard that line as "Excuse me while I kiss this guy".

Sorry for the late reply, GT. At one point I knew what kind of tree that is, but I can't remember for the life of me

Thanks for the reply, Mike. I thought it might be some kind of fruit tree, but I'd guess you'd remember what kind of tree it is if it produced fruit every year.

It IS a gem, mainly because it was given to me by Greg, @sunknife in 2024. A special versiion of an 881 Stockman.
It's a Schrade Walden from a commerative series honoring Thomas Jefferson. Both the shield and the blade etch depict an eagle with a flag. One saying We The People, the other saying Thomas Jefferson with his birth and death years.
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Thanks for the interesting info on your Jefferson stockman.
Any idea what the "E 4" on the line under "S W CUT" indicates?

- GT

 

[KentuckyBlackBird]

 

[lambertiana]

 

[Johnnythefox]

To me this is a Barlow,the sort that would be sold in the corner shop back in the day.

An affordable knive with no embellishments,easy to find and buy back then.

Use it as it should be used.

 

[SteveC]

 

[sceva]

My Chestnut bone Esquire

 

[Invoice]

 

[Buck_Fan]

After the mailman came today I put this in my pocket.

2024 Case Barlow by Bill Friggle Photography, on Flickr
2024 Case Barlow by Bill Friggle Photography, on Flickr