What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Cambertree said:
Hmm, that is interesting. I remember using this in games here in Australia as a child, and it's still in currency - although here it's 'barley'. I wonder if this is a more archaic form that came over with the English colonists or vice versa. Here 'barlow' would not have a common word, given that that pattern of knife is known as a 'bunny knife.' In fact contemporary imported barlows from the Egginton owned residue of the great Sheffield cutlers will still commonly have the 'bunny knife' inscription on them.
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That's very interesting Cambertree. Actually the names Barlow and Barley have the same root etymologically, and in the distant past, particularly when few people could read or write, they appear to have been quite interchangeable. The Sheffield cutler Obadiah Barlow may well have been born Obadiah Barley, the name recorded on his apprenticeship records. Knife aside, it's interesting that the word may have been in use continuously by children for several hundred years :)

Would I be right in supposing that even a long-bolstered jack knife with a clip-blade would have been referred to as a Bunny Knife in Australia? Do you know how long that name goes back? Contemporary Sheffield cutlers can get very confused about knife patterns (;) ), but isn't the Eggington 'Bunny Knife' a short-bolstered Jack?

Would you mind if I copy this conversation over to the Barlow thread, as I dare say that one or two people, not least Charlie, will find it of interest there?
 
Travman said:
We had a visit from a Luna moth this evening. I hope he did stay too long. They only live for about a week in the adult moth phase. He better get to work perpetuating his species.

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THAT's a moth! Nice knife too :thumbup:

Ernie1980 said:
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Good-looking Rodgers Ernie :thumbup:

Carrying my IXL Barlow again today, along with an Arthur Wright Lambsfoot in ebony :) Hope everyone has a good week :thumbup:



 
I thought the 14 could use a day off, so out came my other favorite. This cattle knife is production knife perfection as far as I'm concerned.
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The 4x4 chunks are going to become coasters for my patio table. Hopefully they hold up after a linseed oil bath.


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Jack Black said:
That's very interesting Cambertree.
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Would I be right in supposing that even a long-bolstered jack knife with a clip-blade would have been referred to as a Bunny Knife in Australia? Do you know how long that name goes back? Contemporary Sheffield cutlers can get very confused about knife patterns (;) ), but isn't the Eggington 'Bunny Knife' a short-bolstered Jack?

Would you mind if I copy this conversation over to the Barlow thread, as I dare say that one or two people, not least Charlie, will find it of interest there?
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Yes, please feel free to do that, Jack. I've been doing some research tonight, to give you a fuller answer and have found some things that may be of interest. I agree: the Barlow thread is a better place to continue this conversation. It's after midnight here now, so i'll continue doing a bit of digging tomorrow and will report back in the Barlow thread then.
Cheers.
 
A newer traditional but a traditional nonetheless, a Lone Wolf/Loveless City knife. I love the Wharncliffe blade on this one. :)

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Too many great knives to comment on and pictures!!! I am going to go back and run through them again.

Carrying my GEC today:D

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Just refurbed this flea market find from a couple of weeks back. It came up nicely.

 
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Thanks, yeah. The steel cut fast! Was a doddle really.

(I tweaked my post to include a before and after pic).
 
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