What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

I got this the other day. I have been carrying it quite a bit the past few days. Thicker than I expected but I am quite fond of it.

Canal Street Moon Pie Trapper
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I just swapped out to my Eye Brand. I'll be carrying it tomorrow.What the heck am I doing to the spey blade? Looks like I'm turning it into a pen. I bought this one after I put my 63087 away for a while. I carried this one for about 5 years straight. No swapping back then. All the knives I collected went into the sack.
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These are some re-built knives that I came by. You get the old patterns that you can't find in a new knife and the good steel that came with the old ones. The parts are shaped and buffed and the scales are a delrin type of material. They function perfectly and run about 40 bucks a pop. I've seen rebuilt knives before but never as well done as these. Great carry knives.
Greg

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Greg,

Those look great, bet they even look better in person.
 
I especially like that Miller Bros. What would you call that, a serpentine jack? Nice bolster & cap.

Can you tell us where you found these beauties?

-- Sam
 
Got 'em at Parkers Show in Sevierville,TN a few weeks ago. A gentleman had a table full of re-builts. They were all re-constituted pieces from the past. All had new scales and were cleaned and reground. There were probably 6 or 8 like the ones in the photo. Tons of other patterns as well. Not all were rehandled in this same material. Some were stag or bone. Even a few with the new acrylic that looks like celluloid. From what I could tell, none were done to replicate an old pattern. He did something to each knife so that they could not be confused with an original. Some had the shields on up side down and so forth. Talking with him was a pleasure. He just took apart old knives, kept the parts and then matched them up with frames when they would work right. Ground them a bit and put them back together. Mine have half stops that work at 90 degrees. No blade wobble and walk and talk like they should. Alll the ones I handled worked just as well. There were probably 100 or so pieces going for 40 to 75 bucks depending on handle material and the number of blades in them. There wasn't a price for a particular knife. Certain groups went for so much. I'm wishing that I would have bought more of them. There are so many to look at during that show it's hard to make up your mind.
Greg
 
Thanks Greg. I bet it was a lot of fun just to mess with all of the different knives on his table. He's bringing the past into the present and into people's pockets.
 
Past two days I've used my new/old Camillus scout knife and a small puuko sheath knife that is only a 2 inch blade and 4 3/4 overall. A very nice un-folding pocket knife.
 
navihawk, I LIKE that Eye Brand Stockman (it's a 4" inch one, right?! Does it have carbon steel blades? The stag looks great, too.

Ron
 
Changed up today in favor of this combination again. Its hard to beat these two. A hand made David Farmer full tang constructed fixed blade with the most superb razor sharp convex grind on the 1095 carbon steel and blood wood scales. And one of Waynorth's commissioned Harness Jack pattern pocket knives made by S&M which has the sharpest punch blade which I have found gobs of uses for over the years.

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sunnyd said:
And one of Waynorth's commissioned Harness Jack pattern pocket knives made by S&M which has the sharpest punch blade which I have found gobs of uses for over the years.
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I've been eyeing a Harness Jack recently. I didn't know Waynorth commissioned them. That's really cool. I'm curioius, what do you use teh punch blade for? In my mind's eye, I haven't figured that out, but would probably jump in and purchase one if I thought of a use for it.

Do you have the 3rd generation, which I understand has a curved-edge punch, or a 1st or 2nd generation, which I believe is straight across?
 
RobbW said:
I've been eyeing a Harness Jack recently. I didn't know Waynorth commissioned them. That's really cool. I'm curioius, what do you use teh punch blade for? In my mind's eye, I haven't figured that out, but would probably jump in and purchase one if I thought of a use for it.

Do you have the 3rd generation, which I understand has a curved-edge punch, or a 1st or 2nd generation, which I believe is straight across?
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Robb,

I am not really sure which generation Ive got. I am 99.% sure it was the first one though.. I don't have a close up photo that I can find of this knife right at the present but I will dig some more and add it here before too long..

Yea, Charlie is da man, no question about it. His commissioned knife for Schatt & Morgan was modeled after a vintage knife from years ago. I believe it to be the following knife in the #1 post in the picture (the bottom knife in brown bone, 'Globe' I think) here in the following link.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=396390

Just mouse over the photo and it will enlarge automatically.

As far as the uses for the punch blade, geez they are endless. Just in the last several weeks, all my leather work of coarse including making another hole in my belt since I am losing weight and I am too cheap to by a new belt., my pipe stem and bowl scraper, cleared the fuel line and carburetor of gunky crap from my sons quad runner, cleaned / scraped out greasy caked on chunks of old powder / primer deposits from the breach of my vintage model #98 .8mm German Mauser rifle.. ect, ect.

Great knife!!:thumbup:
 
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Sorry, Double Post.. Freak'n thunderstorms all afternoon has got this computer wigg'n out.
 
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