What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Blues said:
Somethin' hansom' from that Hanson fella in forged W2 and Stag.

There's just something don magical about this one:

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Elliott, ever since it was first posted I have loved that knife! The "Blue's Trapper" is probably my favorite slipjoint ever. :thumbup:
 
wagglebee said:
Elliott, ever since it was first posted I have loved that knife! The "Blue's Trapper" is probably my favorite slipjoint ever. :thumbup:
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That's really saying something! :thumbup::cool:

I was honored that Don used my moniker in naming his trapper pattern.
 
VCM3 said:
A big improvent to that knife,with its rounded spine,is if it met the spring perfect match,squared & then were rounded,the way Tony does it.
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You mean meet up square with the backspring and become more rounded as it got closer to the tip? That would look rather interesting.
 
I gave my canoe a rest today. It got a little dusty and gritty out pickin' strawberries yesterday so I gave it a good mineral oil bath and let it dry.

So I stuck this one back in my pocket:
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It may stay there a few more days. The canoe really stole the show, but I adore this congress, and I'd forgotten how sharp it was.
 
The Gunstock from Lambertiana

Polished, honed and, most importantly, in my pocket!

3 1/2" fit nicely in my belt pouch
The blade in narrow and wide.
It is narrower than a Case stockman, but it as wide as the knife frame.
So the blade geometry makes for a very fine slicer.

The blades came with very well ground clean and straight bevels
So 20 licks on my EF DMT has brought this up to very sharp indeed.

The blades have crisp half stops with a soft but firm opening
Both blade has nice swedging
The main blade can be pinched open, which I really like!

The F&F is very good.
The knife is wide enough to show nicely the Amber bone

I find this knife to be an excellent example of a Queen at its best, and I wish all production knives would be this good


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I've been carrying this harness jack for the past couple of weeks. I'm reading Lonesome Dove at the moment, and this knife just seemed to fit.

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Nice Longpull on that Harness. In my view, all Spear blades should be longpull!

Today in my pocket, it just arrived in a USPS box: CASE Swayback in Chestnut Bone. NOW I see what all the fuss is about- No gaps, flush in all 3 positions, wonderful bone, joy! All this in a production knife too.
 
The thing I really like about this one is that you just strap it on in the morning and forget about it-- you hardly know it's there! Carries like my old EDC (the TJ in pic for comparison) but is capable of so much more.

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black mamba said:
The thing I really like about this one is that you just strap it on in the morning and forget about it-- you hardly know it's there! Carries like my old EDC (the TJ in pic for comparison) but is capable of so much more.

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Holy smokes! You an executioner by trade?! :eek:
 
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Ray Cover wharncliffe in red camel bone and 3" of hollow ground ATS34 - this is an old pic - it is more 'loved' now :D:D

Mind you, I am not sure that Ray's knives are in many ways traditional. I believe that only he and Mike Skellern make a knife this shape. They LOOK traditional though :):)

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This is my all time and very, very, favorite Stockman pattern!.

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This perfectly tough a$s Stock knife with lots of balls is no longer produced and dawg-on it, I sure wish she were! :thumbup: :cool:

Anthony
 
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