What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[link2derek]

Another Enzo scandi grind:

 

[TsarBomba]

TsarBomba, the Case Wharncliffe saddlehorn is called green jigged burnt bone.

Thanks for the heads-up. :thumbup: Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with those Case handle names. I found out recently that there are at least 2 separate names for a jigged bone pattern that matches my big stockman and new (to me) little peanut, and a third that comes very close. It’s kind of frustrating trying to navigate the secondary market with all these names.

Carrying something quite different today though Have a good week everyone :thumbup:

Well that’s something you’ll need to tell us more about. I see what looks like a quasi-typical barehead jack but handled in the same material and pattern so many of those European clasp knives are found. Is that “Stedham” on the tang stamps? How curious!

Case Trapper

In amber bone and with CV blades, it appears! That is rapidly becoming my favorite combination from Case next to old red bone + any conventional pattern.

I carrying the old yellow handled trapper
Woke up late grumpy had to rush out the house first knife I saw no coffee for me mates today[emoji35]

And a fine yeller CV (mini?)trapper that is. Plus it stands out when you’re rushing around the house to get out the door for work.

Monday morning with no coffee? The week's got to get better from here, right?

With a whittler like that things can only improve! :thumbup:

A Peanut in the pocket today.

That stag deserves to shine, make sure you find many excuses to show it off.

Just arrived today due to Will's generosity!
Two splendid Case. Thanks again! I'll take great care of them. I will keep them on me the week long (and may be more).
This place is really a special place.:thumbup: (Will I hope you don't have too many mooses like this one venturing in your garden!)

A great teardrop (eminently grateful to Mr. Bose for making Case see the light on that pattern) but I am loving that smooth green bone Wharnie-trapper! Seriously, I think my face is the same color right now due to envy.

Today my new Schrade LB5!!!

I really like the extended clip on that blade compared to a 110/112. Sure is a pretty knife for such a workhorse. :thumbup:

Todays carry : Schrade 1975 Commemorative issue of the Russell Barlow , 73 Linerlock in Stag , Moki 100J
The Car On The Lake is now The Car In The Lake
It was still on the lake at 1:00 P.M. Saturday and that was the last I knew until this morning.

As always, Harry, some beautiful stag on hand. As exciting as the epic tale of The Car On The Lake was, I’m a little disappointed that it didn’t last until March -- any other year and it would have made it, apparently.

I got a walking stick for completing our Metro Parks Winter Hike series this year; 12 parks over the last two months. The Farmer's Jack has been whining that I never take it anywhere, so it's in the pocket today and scheduled to go on my next hike Thursday.

Glad you got some time with that FJ. What the heck is that stick made of? It looks like it could double as a clobberin’ stick in a pinch.

Mine for the day:

Nice TL-29, Mitch! Is that a steel liner, or just a trick of the light? I have a decent number of those two-pin Camillus linesman knives but IIRC they’re all constructed with brass liners. The few steel liners I’ve seen always seem to look better on that pattern, especially with the dark synthetic handles.

Do you ever have one of those days where you are proven wrong? Today was that day... Between challenging myself to use the Boker Barlow as my only EDC for a month and using a stainless steel butcher knife, I was pleasantly surprised by how well the worked compared to the Mountainous Opinel and Mora that I'm used to.

Your 494 was designed and built with EDC in mind, though I have to admit the butcher blade might be a little more difficult to carry every day than the venerable Mora (and not even close to that Opi).

The winner gets to keep the car!

Winner gets to fish the car out and give it to the first runner-up.

Today felt like a good day to take out the old red Case jack again.

 

[RDaneel]

Glad you got some time with that FJ. What the heck is that stick made of? It looks like it could double as a clobberin’ stick in a pinch.

Today felt like a good day to take out the old red Case jack again.

The stick comes from a Hawthorn Tree native to here in Ohio. The wood is particularly hard and is excellent for clobberin' as well as hiking. Always nice to have a multi-use item along.

I like your old red Case jack. What is the model number for that one?

 

[TsarBomba]

The stick comes from a Hawthorn Tree native to here in Ohio. The wood is particularly hard and is excellent for clobberin' as well as hiking. Always nice to have a multi-use item along.
I like your old red Case jack. What is the model number for that one?

It's a 62024½, a 3" barehead jack which ran until the end of the 60s modeled on the old pre-war #24 pattern. It's one of those patterns, like the Barlow, that really screams "traditional" to me. It's also a perfect watch pocket knife, and who doesn't like that old Case red bone?

That walking stick is really something. Were these particularly long and arduous hikes, or has our country just become so sedentary that some areas are starting to consider the simple completion of a series of hikes to be worthy of such a reward? Congrats on the accomplishment, regardless. I imagine that stick will inspire more hikes in the future.

 

[RDaneel]

It's a 62024½, a 3" barehead jack which ran until the end of the 60s modeled on the old pre-war #24 pattern. It's one of those patterns, like the Barlow, that really screams "traditional" to me. It's also a perfect watch pocket knife, and who doesn't like that old Case red bone?

That walking stick is really something. Were these particularly long and arduous hikes, or has our country just become so sedentary that some areas are starting to consider the simple completion of a series of hikes to be worthy of such a reward? Congrats on the accomplishment, regardless. I imagine that stick will inspire more hikes in the future.

Not particularly arduous for me, but probably for some. Of course, ice and snow and cold do make it a challenge sometimes. I don't consider it that big of an accomplishment, but then who would say no to a walking stick?

 

[BenHarris]

"Your 494 was designed and built with EDC in mind, though I have to admit the butcher blade might be a little more difficult to carry every day than the venerable Mora (and not even close to that Opi). "

I am not EDCing the butcher, it was just along for the hike. The Barlow is the challenge knife, so the butcher/Mora/other fixed blades are just to take care of the heavy work that is just too much for the little knife

 

[Jack Black]

Interesting carries today, Jack. They seem to work well as a pair. :thumbup:

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I got a walking stick for completing our Metro Parks Winter Hike series this year; 12 parks over the last two months. The Farmer's Jack has been whining that I never take it anywhere, so it's in the pocket today and scheduled to go on my next hike Thursday.

Thanks Dean Nice stick, and congratulations :thumbup: I had mine with me today - I didn't have to do anything to get it apart from hand over £15 to a man in Dewsbury, but if I tell you that Dewsbury's main architectural feature is a statue of a vomiting man, you may think that's no small thing! :thumbup:

One of the local garages that has a wrecker will attach a cable to the cable that is attached to the car , and winch it out of the lake. I have no idea when they will do it. There is no engine in the car and maybe no transmission so there very little risk of oil contamination. The city , Burlington , has been doing this for some time now.

Thanks for the info, and for humouring me Harry I've been so enthralled by your car-lake posts that you probably wonder what we do for fun where I live! Thanks again my friend :thumbup:

Do you ever have one of those days where you are proven wrong? Today was that day... Between challenging myself to use the Boker Barlow as my only EDC for a month and using a stainless steel butcher knife, I was pleasantly surprised by how well the worked compared to the Mountainous Opinel and Mora that I'm used to.

LOL! Pretty regularly For some reason, the day I told my youngest daughter, "Yeah, course I can hoola-hoop!", only to then wonder why the hoop was on the ground, and recall that it seemed very easy when I was aged FIVE, sticks in my mind! :thumbup:

A pair of daisy's today:

A fine pair Mr P, and by coincidence, my youngest daughter, whose now in her twenties, is called Daisy :thumbup:

The winner gets to keep the car!

THanks :thumbup:

Another Enzo scandi grind:

Very nice, and a great pic :thumbup:

Well that’s something you’ll need to tell us more about. I see what looks like a quasi-typical barehead jack but handled in the same material and pattern so many of those European clasp knives are found. Is that “Stedham” on the tang stamps? How curious!

My apologies! The 'Stedham' is actually a Needham (Brothers), and the knife is a rather unusual British post-WW2 clasp knife variant - a NAAFI knife (see http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1184098-Needham-Hill-Street-Sheffield and http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...Military-Clasp-Knives?p=13985720#post13985720). The other knife is a 1974 issue Dutch Army Knife :thumbup:

 

[mitch4ging]

Nice TL-29, Mitch! Is that a steel liner, or just a trick of the light? I have a decent number of those two-pin Camillus linesman knives but IIRC they’re all constructed with brass liners. The few steel liners I’ve seen always seem to look better on that pattern, especially with the dark synthetic


Today felt like a good day to take out the old red Case jack again.

Thanks, Tsar!
The liners are brass, just the lighting. Would love to see one with steel! :thumbup:

Love the red jack, nice looker!

 

[Half/Stop]

I have got to get buy larger apples. This big old clip needs to have the patina more evenly applied.

 

[Gevonovich]

OOOooooo .....that is an apple to my eye, Ron!

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Here's a better shot of the AG Russell Sowbelly, micarta scales and nice shield inlay, very well done, pull isn't that hard and the blade is ground down fairly thin too, cuts great!

Hard to believe that size a blade fits into that handle, but it's one heck of a folder,

G2

 

[Primble]

And very pretty daisies they are, too!

Thank you Dean - admire your walking stick !!!

A fine pair Mr P, and by coincidence, my youngest daughter, whose now in her twenties, is called Daisy :thumbup:
My apologies! The 'Stedham' is actually a Needham (Brothers), and the knife is a rather unusual British post-WW2 clasp knife variant - a NAAFI knife (see http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1184098-Needham-Hill-Street-Sheffield and http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...Military-Clasp-Knives?p=13985720#post13985720). The other knife is a 1974 issue Dutch Army Knife :thumbup:

Thank you Mr. Jack ! I believe that is two coincidences in two days my friend ! I would say that I like your Sheffield made clasp knife, however, your friend Duncan has forbidden me to even be looking at the Sheffield made knives, so I will just have to say - nice Dutch Army Knife ! Daisy is a fine name and I expect a fine daughter !

I have got to get buy larger apples. This big old clip needs to have the patina more evenly applied.

Yup ! :thumbup:

Here's a better shot of the AG Russell Sowbelly, micarta scales and nice shield inlay, very well done, pull isn't that hard and the blade is ground down fairly thin too, cuts great!

Hard to believe that size a blade fits into that handle, but it's one heck of a folder,

G2

That is a really curvy knife Gary ! :thumbup::thumbup:

 

[screened porch]

Trying to carry my entire Care package from Leeds.
A languishing-since-it-left-the-factory Richards scout, which sharpened up nicely with enough effort to indicate good, hard steel;
the first ring-opener I ever saw in real life, and a minty one, which would be a good fishing knife, because if your hands are cold and slimy you can assist its opening with a pencil;
and a sure-nuff Jack Black approved lamb foot, with a good hand-filling sway-back handle.

I owe you, man (better change my address again).

 

[Half/Stop]

OOOooooo .....that is an apple to my eye, Ron!

Gev - Thanks buddy

Yup ! :thumbup:

Primble - Nice pair of Daisies my friend :thumbup: Yup ! Nice indeed !

 

[J_Curd]

That's a cool shield Paul. Pocket dump today.

Jack, Primble, and Gev have posted some amazing knives lately...that said, you've got one helluva dandy there. If that ever needs a new home you let this guy know!

 

[RobbW]

G2

Gary, that Sowbelly is drop-dead gorgeous!! That is one terrific knife. Your photographs are also exceptional, as always. You always get the lighting just right.:thumbup:

 

[bflying]

This one today
G2

Gary, I love it. Sweet modern flair giving amazing lines. What size is it?

I only have a few traditionals with lanyard holes. I really like having a pull of some type because of the way I pocket carry.

 

[knarfeng]

For no particular reason, I decided I needed something hefty in my pocket tonight. A Schatt & Morgan Heritage Series Woodsman with lovely bone covers and 1095 steel in Clip, sheepsfoot, and pen blades fit my need to a T.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Gary, I love it. Sweet modern flair giving amazing lines. What size is it?

I only have a few traditionals with lanyard holes. I really like having a pull of some type because of the way I pocket carry.

Thanks guys, It's an amazing build, 4 1/4" closed with a 3 3/8" blade that is about an inch at it's widest point of the belly
G3

 

[Gevonovich]

The MJ Crown Jack got some pocket time this stressful day....and it helped to center me