What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

5K Qs said:
I try to sing a psalm or hymn from this songbook we had in our church when I was a kid. Many of them I haven't sung for over 50 years, but I'm surprised how many tunes and lyrics come back to me! 🤓
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Having gone back to church, I still do with hymns what I did as a child: count the verses and be outraged that we're going to sing all of them, when we're already running late.
5K Qs said:
can't quite figure out the topography of the cover. Is that a "reverse worm groove" (mole hill??) running the length of the handle? (And what does the shield look like?)
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It's a shape I haven't seen before or since. The shield is Colonial's anvil.
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Three springs.
 

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Someone elsewhere was talking about breaking down boxes. I don't like to use a good knife for that.
These are my favorite of what we used to call utility knives. Except I have a liner lock folder with a half serrated drop-point along with a utility blade.

[Sorry, I just realized that my favorite big one is a button-lock swinger which may not be traditional. I'll put a pic in Trad and Mod Pairings. (There are five examples in the pic, but nobody else seems to be bothered by the "Pairings" in the title of that thread.)]
 
Opinel nr 8 "Sampo", handle is made of Finnish birch. This will not be modified in any way, just oiled and waxed if necessary. Blade is mirror polished 12C27. In Finnish mythology Sampo was a magical machine that made money, grain and salt, so it was a source of great wealth that the mistress of "Pohjola", the northlands, kept locked inside a mountain. This machine was made by the great smith Ilmarinen as a payment for marrying one of the daughters of Pohjola. Then it was stolen by shaman Väinämöinen and his men, but broke up in the battle and was lost at sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo

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screened porch said:
Someone elsewhere was talking about breaking down boxes. I don't like to use a good knife for that.
These are my favorite of what we used to call utility knives. Except I have a liner lock folder with a half serrated drop-point along with a utility blade.

[Sorry, I just realized that my favorite big one is a button-lock swinger which may not be traditional. I'll put a pic in Trad and Mod Pairings. (There are five examples in the pic, but nobody else seems to be bothered by the "Pairings" in the title of that thread.)]
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I use all the cardboard I can get in the garden. But I never let my blades touch the cardboard. I just remove all the plastic tape.
Cutting cardboard dulls a blade almost as fast as cutting rock. If I need to cut it, I use one of the replaceable blade box cutters from my warehouse days.
 
5K Qs 5K Qs ~ Thanks for the compliment.
I try to hang in there as long as I can with the dog. I have one of those Ball Chuckers that heaves the ball a long way. He's very fired up to get the ball for a while. But after a dozen or two throws, he either needs a breather and just lays down to chew the ball, or gets distracted by either the neighbor's birds (quite fascinated by the tom turkey puffing his feathers out, or by the guinea hens running along the fence), or by mud puddles.
When he starts that, we take a break.
 
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