What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[TheFactor]

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[deltaboy]

Taylor 8OT and a Taylor 120 dog legged peanut. A Kershaw speed safe.

 

[philllll]

Black on black today

 

[dbla]

Romano'n stuff today.


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[combatjiujitsu]

 

[combatjiujitsu]

Man great looking combo! Ready to take on the world!

Black on black today

 

[Crazy Canuck]

GEC 68 White Owl

 

[Cannonball970]

I've got the S&M equal-end whittler / mini muskrat with me today.

 

[Macchina]

GEC 68 White Owl

Incredible grain! Is that Snakewood?

 

[redsparrow]

Carried this all weekend and again today. Finding it to be even more useful then it is good looking.

 

[5K Qs]

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Oh, man, Jake, you're gonna take that awesome, but lanyardless, R. Bose fishing with you?? You're a lot more daring than I am!!

Thanks for the well wishes everyone. Just a cold setting me back for a bit. It just seems compounded given all my other issues, but back on track now.
...Gary, thanks for the comments. The electrician's knife is a GEC #15. This one was an SFO for Steven Rice labeled STR*EK (Steven T. Rice Electrician Knife) and has OD Green Micarta covers. They also offered these in a sheepsfoot blade as well as the spearpoint.

Thanks for the STR*EK ID, Bob. I've seen that model, but apparently don't recognize it closed! If the saw blade was deployed, I think I'd have known right away what you had.

Good morning to you my friend. Glad to see you posting Bob! Our prayers are always with you.
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While I am not totin' it just yet, I have been in a serious CE and CF session with this Fremont Jack this morning.

That blue Fremont Jack is a real jewel, Ron, and I'll echo your remark to Bob! :thumbup:

... Haven't carried the canoe in a while, so it hopped in the pocket today.

GEC 68 White Owl

Mike, your Queen canoe and your GEC White Owl are a couple of premier examples of the appeal of equal-end patterns! :thumbup:

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I like that fancy canoe, and that barlow looks really fun!

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Fantastic Zorro Barlow, I've been waiting for those to be available again here for a couple of years now! :thumbup:

GT wrote: "and a Zorro novelty knife I could no longer resist"

Thank for posting the picture of your Zorro knife! I've been admiring that series of novelty barlows on a large online knife vendor's site for some time; very nostalgic.

Gary
The novelty barlow reminds me of my thus themed metal lunch box when I was a kid. I am flooded with feeling and memories

See http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1223592-Let’s-See-Your-Pictorials! :thumbup:

Now that's a Barlow! Barlows were meant to be inexpensive knives and (I think) something a boy could carry. That Zorro Barlow hits both with a bang.

... Love Zorro.

Alan

I was a little embarrassed to post my Zorro Barlow, not sure of what sort of reception an admittedly cheesy knife might get here. Thanks to everyone for their support! Did you realize that there's "an imbedded old fashioned game of skill" right there on the mark side cover? You may be able to see the 3 tiny silver balls that are supposed to go into 3 little holes as a demonstration of hand-eye coordination, I suppose; the holes are so deep, though, that once a ball goes into a hole, the knife has to be turned upside down to get the ball out again, so not very much skill is actually needed! Jack, thanks for the link to the Pictorials thread; I should certainly post Zorro there! Jef and Gev, for more nostalgia, here's a link to the theme song and opening credits of the Disney Zorro TV show, from the late 1950s I think, which was certainly my first exposure to the Zorro legend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCqmtVddaq0 (Later in life, I enjoyed "The Mask of Zorro" as a feature film. The only way I can imagine my Zorro Barlow being improved would be to replace the pile side "Heroes of the Silver Screen" with a fetching image of Catherine Zeta-Jones from that movie!)

Yes it is one of those trick Imperials it's been around a long time it use to be my Dads
...Oh and my carry today lol almost forgot

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Very cool to have that trick Imperial as a family heirloom! Pretty stunning stag on your knife (a GEC Talon, right?)! :thumbup:

... And some advertising you might like :thumbup:
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Still totin' the Humpback Stockman.

Superb knife, Rick! :thumbup:

Certainly seems like it. There were 12,000 of those knives run so who knows if they even made more than a token effort to match handles. Apparently they were just throwing them together already a third of the way through. Gives the knife a bit of a unique character, though, and made the decision rather easy choosing which of my three should become a user. It has a great blade selection and cuts like a demon, so I don't much mind the variance in stag.
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Photos of today's totes resting in the car with the A/C cranked after I'd finished working under the hood:

Thanks for more info on your stag gunstockman, TB. Your photos show the two sides very clearly. Although the mark and pile sides certainly differ in the texture of their stag, the color actually matches quite well IMHO. I think that knife is quite a looker!

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My carry today will be my Case 63090 SS Medium Stockman again, which I suspect everyone is tired of seeing again (again) at this point. I just got back from bouldering (that's chalk on my shorts), where I was, of course, not carrying it.

If you're taking a poll, Dadpool, I am NOT tired of seeing that resplendent red stockman again! Nice change of pace to see a non-serpentine version of a stockman. :thumbup:

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Today's carry (in addition to my Calf Roper Slim) was one of my TC Barlows that I haven't carried in some time.

Another Tremendously Charming Barlow, Dean! :thumbup:

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Today it's a 11 Forum Knife and a Vic.

Have a good one!

Another propitious pairing, Ken! :thumbup: That GEC 85 as a Forum knife was an inspired selection!

A new week, so here are some of the knives I'll be carrying each day this week (at least Monday-Friday, anyway).
My first knife ever, a Colonial Forest-Master from circa 1960:

A black Vic Pioneer and a silver Vic Electrician (you don't suppose the Forest-Master has influenced my tastes, do you?):

a linerless, plastic-handled Imperial Ireland stockman:

- GT

 

[Jack Black]

For sure ! Just wish I would of figured out sooner before I chose the wrong method to try and open it lol .

From what I understand you press down on the spine of the blade and it should disengage. I haven't had one in hand, though, but I've read threads about these knives before.

I'll never tell !! [emoji14]

Well with mine you hold the knife point up and press on the blade and it releases . To lock it just reverse the position to point down and press on the blade and it closes and locks .

That's it TB. There is a small steel ball which rolls into place in the cut-out on the tang, so the blade can only be opened in one position, and closed in another. Mine was given to me by ADEE as every one I've come across previously has been broken and had the ball missing! There are also other knives where depressing the pen-blade releases the lock on the main blade, I have a Barlow like that :thumbup:

Black on black today

Good choice Phil :thumbup:

I left home in a bit of a hurry this morning headed for Sheffield. Had this Crown Penknife by Harrison Fisher with me :thumbup:

 

[Will Power]

I fancy your Shadow Jack Fine old example that I've not seen before.:thumbup:

Today, garden party with the colleagues.....needed some beauty to contemplate Stainless White Owl in Light Tan Bone, one of five I believe.

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks Will, very nice, I hope you got some sunshine :thumbup:

 

[TsarBomba]

Thanks for more info on your stag gunstockman, TB. Your photos show the two sides very clearly. Although the mark and pile sides certainly differ in the texture of their stag, the color actually matches quite well IMHO. I think that knife is quite a looker!

Thanks, GT! Despite the "odd couple" nature of the stag slabs, it surely is a knife worthy of CF & CE. It, and the Osage 'yote, are with me again today -- with a Queen Workhorse #69 in 1095 along because I was feeling unprepared without a clip blade. It's the one to the right in the photo:

 

[Jsega51]

Don't worry GT. Shore fishing only yesterday. I certainly wouldn't be dangling it over the edge of a boat!

 

[Acadian]

Bit of a change for me,but a pleasant one.

that looks super nice. Carbon Blade?

I have this guy on me today. Love this little fella - thanks again Bob.

 

[jrawk]

photo from yesterday of my weekend carry.

 

[Whetstone39]

philllll - nice combo!

Mike - great pic of the 68!

Cannonball970 - fine looking mini muskrat.

redsparrow - great looking Harness Jack, do you find the awl useful?

GT - love the Colonial scout :thumbup:

Jack - great photo, enjoy Sheffield!

Luc - excellent photo, that looks like a real worker.


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[Jack Black]

Jack - great photo, enjoy Sheffield!

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Thanks a lot Tom, great pair :thumbup: