What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Corto_Malt]

 

[screened porch]

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!

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.

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?)

It's a shape I haven't seen before or since. The shield is Colonial's anvil.

Three springs.

 

[Jiki]

What's the fixed blade? It looks like some kind of bread knife, but why the ruler(s) on the blade?

It's a trowel. I was planting bulbs.

 

[EJM73]

 

[screened porch]

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.)]

 

[Travman]

 

[Rufus1949]