What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

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Going with this Buck 112 today. (In a hat-tip to festerfromnzed's volcanic island, there's a geology note below the image.)

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The knife is resting on 1.7 billion-year-old Baraboo quartzite along the Potholes Trail in Devil’s Lake State Park, Wisconsin. (Quartzite is sandstone that has been recrystallized by heat and pressure.) The striations running approximately vertically are ripple marks. These formed in the original sandstone, which dates from a time when the sand was on the seabed a few feet deep in a Precambrian ocean in the center of what is now North America.

At the time, Earth was about 2/3 its current age.
 
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CARDS 94......That island is WHITE Island....part of a chain of volcanic islands here in New Zealand that are active....A good indicator of whats happening underground...When WHITE stops chuffing smoke,we locals get a bit worried..........................FES
 
AreBeeBee said:
Going with this Buck 112 today. (In a hat-tip to festerfromnzed's volcanic island, there's a geology note below the image.)

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The knife is resting on 1.7 billion-year-old Baraboo quartzite along the Potholes Trail in Devil’s Lake State Park, Wisconsin. (Quartzite is sandstone that has been recrystallized by heat and pressure.) The striations running approximately vertically are ripple marks. These formed in the original sandstone, which dates from a time when the sand was on the seabed a few feet deep in a Precambrian ocean in the center of what is now North America.

At the time, Earth was about 2/3 its current age.
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I love that Buck 112 but I have a 501 so I'm thinking maybe go for the 110.
 
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Got this Herbert Robinson Sheepsfoot in my pocket this evening.

 
Wrapping up the outside water faucets this afternoon. Could be in the 20's the next couple of nights. I'd like to see a good frost; I'm tired of cutting grass every week.

I'm carrying my nifebrite boy's knife again today and will be for at least another 7 weeks (unless I carry the MCH instead). I have been managing with the two folders very nicely and hope to have to use the "little finger" on a deer soon.

Ed J
 
sunandsteel said:
I love that Buck 112 but I have a 501 so I'm thinking maybe go for the 110.
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The 110 feels a lot larger in the hand than the 112, and it makes you notice by comparison that the 112's blade is actually pretty stubby for a clip point. Also, both the 112 and 110 are distinctly thicker and chunkier in the handle than the 500-series. If you haven't actually held one, see if the store where you get it will let you handle it.

This will also help in checking for blade play, which has gotten much discussion in the Traditional and Buck Forums. For what it's worth, I have a newly bought 112 and a 110; neither has play either vertical or side-to-side, and they lock up tight. On the other hand, I'm not doing heavy cutting with them, so mine are probably not getting as stressed as some folks' knives are.

My own opinion is that every knife design has its mechanical limits. The 110 is, after all, a folding hunting knife, intended for cutting up large game. Cutting down shrubs and other woody things was not part of the design and that will probably reveal the design's limitations.

Bottom line for me? The 500, 110, and 112 are all great knives, and I'm very happy to own them.
 
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SAK Guy said:
Do you have an approx date on that H. Robinson of yours?
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I only picked it up this afternoon, had a big piece out of the blade. I've tidied it up a little. The blade is the British WW2 pattern clasp knife blade. I come across single-bladers like this occasionally, or folding can-openers made with the other blade. My suspicion would be that they were made post-war from all the leftover parts as the Sheffield cutlery industry went back to supplying civilians. That's a guess though, and I could be completely wrong (the same pattern was made by other Sheffield cutlers until very recently). The covers on this one have shrunk a fair bit, as much or more than the 50/51 Belgian Army clasp knives I see. I've done no research on it whatsoever yet, but my guess would be 1950's or later.





Humppa said:
Nice looking blade, Jack. I really like the simple lines on this nice knife :)
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Thanks Andi :thumbup:
 

Schrade Walden 233 is all the knife I needed today...

Jack, that is a cool old knife :thumbup: nice job on the chip removal !

Pertinux, loving the pics of your new Diamond :thumbup:
 
sitflyer said:
Jack, that is a cool old knife :thumbup: nice job on the chip removal !
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Thanks Duane, I only have basic tools (not even a vice), so had to do it with a file. It didn't take too long though. I tried not to take off too much :)
 
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