What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Modoc ED]

Raining this morning - suppose to snow later in the day. This tough little Otter is just the ticket for a day like this. Lightly fried bacon with eggs-up for breakfast.

 

[lambertiana]

That’s a beauty!

Re-covered and blade deleted 88 my wife won on one of David V's auctions. It was too strong of a pull for her, so I gladly took it off her hands.

The matching lambsfoot is out there somewhere.

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Great covers!

According to the seller's web site when I bought it a few years ago, it was made in Germany, but country of origin is not marked on the blade. It does say "German Stainless", which means nada.
The fit and finish about matches a well done Case knife.
Single spring design. Spring is flush both open and closed. Spring strength is about equal to that of an SAK Tinker.
Maybe a tiny bit of blade rub when opening the pen blade, but the blades don't contact each other when closed.
The stag has been doctored with Potassium Permanganate or similar, so no popcorn, but it feels good in my hand. One cover is thicker than the other, but IMO, not objectionably so.
The only sharp edges were those of the blades, so nicely finished.
Here's a picture so you can see the stag thicknesses
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Meanwhile, todays carry is a Remington R-151. Pretty sure made by Bear and Sons. Walnut and, I think, 440A. Fit and finish are very good.

German stainless usually means china manufacture.

 

[timgiesel]

 

[5K Qs]

Case Knife of the Week is a stag peanut with quite chunky handle:

Colonial/Imperial/Schrade Knife of the Week is a Colonial Ranger jack (thanks, Tom):

- GT

 

[pat9198]

Stay warm today, folks!
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It's a beautiful 80°f day here.

 

[JB in LV]

 

[John A. Larsen]

Case Knife of the Week is a stag peanut with quite chunky handle:

Colonial/Imperial/Schrade Knife of the Week is a Colonial Ranger jack (thanks, Tom):

- GT

Is that a Banana Give away knife? I ask as it looks like it has Chiquita printed on the handle. John

 

[5K Qs]

Is that a Banana Give away knife? I ask as it looks like it has Chiquita printed on teh handle. John

I don't know the history of the knife, but I think you're right, John; must be some kind of advertising knife.

- GT

 

[5K Qs]

Clever, Gary!

Thanks, Lance. There's a thread with "mug shots" of Porch members:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/traditional-mug-shots.1009881/

Thanks, Gary. As do you! Some are due to a GAW, some were gifts, and others I’ve bought. I have some in duplicate, but most are singly owned examples. The half hawks are some of my favorites. That whittler is slowly becoming one of them as well. I like their 440 pretty well, although some isn’t better than others. Their carbon offerings are my favorites.

Thanks. I like my RR canoes and sowbelly stockmans the best, and I'm very pleased with the very few RR carbon steel blades I have. But basically I'm a RR fan. Whenever I see a pattern that interests me, the first thing I do is see if RR has something similar.

Is that a tease of a sweet puukko knife incased in a nice slip Gary?

I need to start my day with stretching to get mobile, then the pills.

The fruit knife works well on pears, apples, etc.

I could almost use the butt end as a pill crusher, as some old knives had the ability to do.

Definitely a nice sheath, Bob, but the knife is an oriental puukko knock-off from Rough Rider. It's one of the very few fixed blades I have, including a couple of Moras.

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.

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

Thanks for the extra info and photo for that unusual Colonial.
For 2026, I've been trying to sing one hymn each morning before breakfast from a hymnal used in the church we attended when I was a kid. I always sing ALL the verses (and stick any chorus/refrain provided after each verse, too). I like singing, but others like that I do it in the privacy of my kitchen.

It's a trowel. I was planting bulbs.

I'm not much of a gardener myself, but I've been around many gardeners and seen lots of tools. Never seen a trowel like yours, though. Looks like it would be useful; maybe I'll see if I can find one for my wife.

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.

I've seen those ball chucker things; looks like a human arm's best friend!
I saw a recent photo of Duncan with his ears standing up straight. Does he ever have a floppy ear or two like he did when he was really young?

I think one of my younger brothers bought a toolbox like that when he was attending an auto mechanic program at Ferris State. He had it pretty full by the time he completed the program and got a job at GM's Tech Center near Detroit, where they provided all his tools for him. But he makes good use of the tool chest and its contents in his garage.

My HS class ring was the exact same unfortunate design. The corners of the rectangle are sharp, and they jab. Probably one of the main reasons I never wore it. Plus, I am not a jeweley kind of guy.

Edit: jewelry. I don't use spell check or auto fill. And apparently, I don't proofread before hitting sned.

I'm not really a jewelry guy either, but I wear my wedding ring 24/7/365 (except during softball games).

Burlwood Buck Canoe today. Resting up today to prepare for a visit with a doctor up in Klamath Falls, Oregon tomorrow. Sausage and waffles for breakfast.

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Good wood, ED; the burl is much nicer than the "plain" wood on the first Buck canoe I bought.

Joel Chamblin Swayback Jack, CPM-154, and some nice amber stag in the pocket today.
The background is a 50-year-old textbook that I vaguely recall studying back when it was new.
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Is the author Kreyzik (or something similar)? I never took or taught a course using this book, but I often borrowed a colleague's copy for reference.

Again....




Have a nice day

Both steel and wood are SO handsome on this knife!

View attachment 3146881Too bad they wouldn’t lemme cut the cord with it. I asked.

Belated congrats to everyone involved with the Happy Birth Day (literally)!

- GT

 

[Johnnythefox]

Lovely Bunny today.


Fun fact when we were 15/16 junior soldiers our instructors took us to the Bunny club in London.

They unsurprisingly didn’t let us in,we had no money anyway.

Excuse my semi illiterate scrawl,I left school with no qualifications and hardly had time to write.

The camp mentioned here was rejected by asylum seeker adults,but OK for us youngsters.

 

[knarfeng]

German stainless usually means china manufacture.

I don't disagree. However the web store that sold it to me about a dozen years ago used to be up front about where their various traditional knives were made. They claimed it was German manufacture, which under German interpretation of the term, of course, does not mean that all the component parts were made in Germany. Either way, it's still a decent little knife I like to carry.

Meanwhile, today's carry is a Canal Street stockman. Smooth caramel bone and 440C.

 

[waynorth]

Raining this morning - suppose to snow later in the day. This tough little Otter is just the ticket for a day like this. Lightly fried bacon with eggs-up for breakfast.

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Nice Otter, but I like my bacon crisp!!!

 

[echoscout]

 

[Modoc ED]

I don't disagree. However the web store that sold it to me about a dozen years ago used to be up front about where their various traditional knives were made. They claimed it was German manufacture, which under German interpretation of the term, of course, does not mean that all the component parts were made in Germany. Either way, it's still a decent little knife I like to carry.

Meanwhile, today's carry is a Canal Street stockman. Smooth caramel bone and 440C.

Frank knarfeng - This is a First Generation Buck Creek Copperhead. When initially made, they were made solely in Germany by Friedrich Olberts Knife Factory in Germany, I believe the same knife factory that made the Boker Copperhead. The pile side tang of the clip blade is stamped

Solingen
Germany



I don't have a comparison Buck Creek/Boker Copperhead picture but held in the hand there is no difference what so ever. Sometime after the initial introduction, a Chinese marriage connection was made. Idon't know exactly when that was. I think that is when parts made in China were imported into Germany and assembled into Buck Creek Knives.

A Boker Copperhead.

 

[John A. Larsen]

Lovely Bunny today.


Fun fact when we were 15/16 junior soldiers our instructors took us to the Bunny club in London.

They unsurprisingly didn’t let us in,we had no money anyway.

Excuse my semi illiterate scrawl,I left school with no qualifications and hardly had time to write.

The camp mentioned here was rejected by asylum seeker adults,but OK for us youngsters.

Your comment about the camp being OK for your group, but not up to standard for asylum seekers shows how screwed ur world can be. Not good enough for you? Then one way ticket to wherever you came from. John

 

[Corn Fed]

 

[Slice-and-dice]

Three Bucks today: 55, 503, and 102

 

[Peregrin]

Is the author Kreyzik (or something similar)? I never took or taught a course using this book, but I often borrowed a colleague's copy for reference.

Here's the book cover, Gary.

 

[paulhilborn]

 

[BakeryWizard]

I bought a Maryland fishing license in December. (I live in PA 2 miles from the state line) after not catching anything in the lake since January and having to worry about PA trout season making most creeks illegal to fish in for 2 months. I went down to the Monocacy River south of Frederick and caught a smallmouth bass. There were 2 more I had hooked, but they got away. Anyway Bear & Son folding hunter as a companion today.