What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[flatblackcapo]

I love the Brothers (remind me, somewhere I have the entire series of FFF Bros along with the reader app/software to read the comics. When I find them send me a flash drive and a SASE and I'll make you a copy and send it back to you), I had a cat named Fat Freddy's cat when I lived at the Circle Hunk Chicken Ranch, a 157 year old farm house with 3 acres of farmland and a couple of buildings including a couple of barns, a large production chicken coupe with egg sorting and packaging equipment. Also had a giant old 4 horse barn converted to a 2 car garage that I used for workin' on cars and trucks for extra cash.


My mom owned the property and let me, my if and my brother stay there for nothin' but payin' the property taxes which back in the early 80s even with a discount for the farm assessment was almost $6K. We turned it into a kinda communal pharm. It became a hang out where on any given day we would have anywhere from 3 to 100+ people chillin' and livin' on the property. We were mostly tradesmen of some sort or had skills in something like pharming, farming, building trades and automotive skills. Almost all of the main residents were mechanics of some kind. Knifeworks of choice was the same knife I carried today, a Schrade Uncle Henry 897UH

Borrowed pic.

Ted, it sounds like that was one farrrr out pharm! I will shoot you a message when I find a thumb drive suitable for the task. That's a good lookin' Uncle Henry that your totin' :thumbup:

Thanks pal, yes indeed :thumbup:

Looks like both of you were definitely ON THE BUS! :thumbup:

If that bus is green and tortoise like, you just might be right.


It is a rainy day here in Cali so the MAM lounged around the house with me and the dogs.

 

[Lhpanther]

Wow! That's beautiful! Interesting composition, too!

Thank you. The knife is absolutely stunning. Enrique knocked this one out of the park.

 

[StoneBeard]

The Lambsfoot has been my companion for the week-

 

[Jack Black]

If that bus is green and tortoise like, you just might be right.


It is a rainy day here in Cali so the MAM lounged around the house with me and the dogs.

LOL! Another great pic :thumbup:

The Lambsfoot has been my companion for the week-

Glad that you're liking the pattern :thumbup: I have mine with me today too



Along with this IXL Serpentine Jack :thumbup:

 

[Travman]

Today I'm carrying my sleeve boards.

 

[5K Qs]

Slender elegance! :thumbup:

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I carried Blackwood and Ebony today:

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I switched it up today with a pocketful of Ebony.

Macchina and Ron, that's a lot of exquisite ebony (and AB - I still don't know the difference ) you gentlemen were toting sometime this week!! :thumbup::thumbup:

The "giant fixed blade" is a Condor Bushtool. I did some spoon carving on the hike, and I roughed out the blanks with this. (It is lighter and easier to carry than an axe. For a short hike, it roughed out my spoons, split the kindling so I could get to some dry wood for feather sticks, and cleared the rosebushes that had grown over the trail).

Thanks for the info, Ben.

Showing some Love for the Lambsfoot and carrying my A. Wright Buffalo Horn today.

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Thanks GT, nice Muskrat :thumbup:
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Like Greg, I've also been showing some Love for the Lambsfoot today, and the Lambsfoot in question is this William Rodgers, gifted to me by Charlie C :thumbup:

Oh, man, I forgot Love for the Lambsfoot on the 14th! Greg & Jack, the two of you carried it off with panache! :thumbup:
Jack, thanks for the "Muskrat Love" (haven't thought of that song for decades, and haven't really missed it ).

The Lambsfoot has been my companion for the week-

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Glad that you're liking the pattern :thumbup: I have mine with me today too


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And the Lambsfoot Love spills over to the 15th as well! Very nice, StoneBeard & Jack!! :thumbup:

Thanks Gev, I am trying to get better. Bacterial infection of the lungs.

A couple of beauties, Gary, from the "bucket top series".

Take care of yourself, Kris; is it pneumonia you're battling?
Enjoyed the bucket top comment. I keep sidewalk salt in a bucket like that, but I guess Gary's is birdseed.

Thanks, Gary! Buck did a great job on the covers for those two. :thumbup:
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Thanks, Dean. I'm pretty sure the covers are some kind of jigged synthetic, but they do look OK.

Bought these today

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Congrats on that fine pair of Cases!

Carried this one today and an unpictured #15 boys knife.

Congrats on your new blue IRJ, JITDC!! :thumbup: (Another OLD song springs to mind: "My Blue Heaven". )

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1916

That's an amazing compare/contrast shot, Rachel! If not for your caption, I'd have never guessed those knives differed in age by a century!!

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This wonderful beer barrel oak B.S. arrived yesterday, I really like this one
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Then the mail came...

Paul & Harry, congrats on the new oak barrel Beer Scouts! :thumbup: Both versions look superb!

Mexican Bocote.

Don't let the TC's hear you say that, Gary! There h̶e̶a̶d̶s̶ bolsters are already big enough.

Pocket treasury!! Your carry never displays a dull (<--- see what I did there? knife humor, haha ) moment.
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Thanks, Dean!

Another TC, another beauty. With enough character to start a play (<--- I'm on a roll here guys, haha ). Or at least it feels like it.
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Gary - Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to you and yours as well! That canoe is dressed as if it knew it was going out for a night on the town (no exceptions).

I thought you were on a roll, too, Dee (although I was sitting in my office at 6pm at the end of a tough day, so I was susceptible to any attempt at levity )! Thanks for the comments and the grins they provided!

I love the Brothers (remind me, somewhere I have the entire series of FFF Bros along with the reader app/software to read the comics. When I find them send me a flash drive and a SASE and I'll make you a copy and send it back to you), I had a cat named Fat Freddy's cat when I lived at the Circle Hunk Chicken Ranch, a 157 year old farm house with 3 acres of farmland and a couple of buildings including a couple of barns, a large production chicken coupe with egg sorting and packaging equipment. Also had a giant old 4 horse barn converted to a 2 car garage that I used for workin' on cars and trucks for extra cash.

My mom owned the property and let me, my if and my brother stay there for nothin' but payin' the property taxes which back in the early 80s even with a discount for the farm assessment was almost $6K. We turned it into a kinda communal pharm. It became a hang out where on any given day we would have anywhere from 3 to 100+ people chillin' and livin' on the property. We were mostly tradesmen of some sort or had skills in something like pharming, farming, building trades and automotive skills. Almost all of the main residents were mechanics of some kind. Knifeworks of choice was the same knife I carried today, a Schrade Uncle Henry 897UH

Borrowed pic.

Ted, you have led an interesting life! And that stagalon 897UH is a wonderful knife! :thumbup:

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These days i have been carrying my orange GEC Bull Nose and also keeping my Case sodbuster in CV handy in the back pocket as I have been packing things up and shuttling them to a storage unit. We put our house on the market and had a solid offer on it after only five days, and they want to close on Jan 3rd. Ten years here went by fast and many things accumulated have been dispersed with. The orange slabbed Bull nose that I got from Pmew has been indispensable as it's covers are glaringly easy to find as I am constantly "making a box" to fit whatever it is that I happen to be packing at the time LOL. Hoping anyone who knows me sees this and want you to all know that I often think about my friends here, even though I have been absent, and wish you all a very happy holiday season. Just wanted to post a drive by Hi Y'all

Happy holidays to you, too, Duane! I hope your move is relatively hassle-free.

Pretty picture, Alan!

Double whittlers today
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And wonderful whittlers they are! :thumbup:

I've been bitten by the BF bug, my carry was simpifed for pretty much the past year, my trusty peanut and a multutool, stop back over here a few days and I'm looking through my collection haveing difficulty deciding what to carry, today I picked a stag Carl Schieper canoe sent to me by another past member Andi, I hope he and his family are well.

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Pete

Your peanut is remarkable and memorable, but that German Eye canoe is also unforgettable!! :thumbup:

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Today is TC Thursday.

Superlative TC Barlows, Dean! Thursday must have been a good day with that pair in pocket!

It is so dark in the morning that it is not possible to take a decent picture. I couldn't get the camera to focus on an up-close shot so I settled for whatever it would take. I had my 1977 Case 11031 with me today.

I like the photo, Travman, and it clears up a confusion I had. Recently I saw your cool pic of Doug the Pug, but I thought to myself, "Doesn't Travman usually have a white dog photobombing him??" Glad to see my memory isn't completely shot yet.

Non-Identical Twins

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Those are a couple of outstanding jacks, Dee! :thumbup: May I request an ID?

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It is a rainy day here in Cali so the MAM lounged around the house with me and the dogs.

Love the cajun-blackened MAM, FBC!! (Cool watch, too.)


Here are pics of more knives I'm carrying this week.
I have a MAM sheepsfoot, but unlike flatblackcapo, I don't have the imagination to modify it:

I have a Rough Rider lockback cannitler and a Rough Rider electrician and a Rough Rider small stockman:

- GT

 

[ecallahan]

In the office today.

Looking for GEC 15 - 151116 American Elk

 

[joeradza]

Thanks GT, you should have seen the beach. Why oh why did I come home? From 80 degrees to 10 with snow.

 

[Stich2442]

Thanks GT, I was going to switch it up today but the canoe just seemed right again today.



Pete

 

[joeradza]

I guess 10 degrees isn't so bad looking at that picture Pete. Keep the canoe upright.

 

[MT Damascus]

ABS Master Smith Steve Dunn, sole authorship, elephant ivory and mosaic damascus

A lovely knife that I enjoy carrying. I bought this of of Steve in 2012 or 11 at M.S. Josh Smith's house. I talked with Steve this year at ICCE in KC and showed him this knife. He was thrilled to see it again and told me I take very good care of it. He flagged me down outside the hotel, so he could show another gentlemen the knife.

 

[swaybacksteve]

Kris: That just oozes class! :thumbup:

 

[Jack Black]

Oh, man, I forgot Love for the Lambsfoot on the 14th! Greg & Jack, the two of you carried it off with panache! :thumbup:
Jack, thanks for the "Muskrat Love" (haven't thought of that song for decades, and haven't really missed it ).

Thanks GT, put it in your diary for January Some songs deserve to be forgotten! You look like you're as well prepared as always my friend. Hope you have a great weekend :thumbup:

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[Ernie1980]

George Wostenholm today for this Friday!

 

[Gevonovich]

Saynor Cooke & Ridal
Obtain
Sheffield
England

 

[Peregrin]

ABS Master Smith Steve Dunn, sole authorship, elephant ivory and mosaic damascus

A lovely knife that I enjoy carrying. I bought this of of Steve in 2012 or 11 at M.S. Josh Smith's house. I talked with Steve this year at ICCE in KC and showed him this knife. He was thrilled to see it again and told me I take very good care of it. He flagged me down outside the hotel, so he could show another gentlemen the knife.

The best of the best, Kris. A great story to go with it too.

George Wostenholm today for this Friday!

That's a fine looking little gent's knife, Ernie.

Saynor Cooke & Ridal
Obtain
Sheffield
England

I'm becoming very attracted to the hawkbill/pruner patterns. That's a nice one Gev!

Had these with me when I headed out the door to feed the birds and snow blow the driveway and walk. It was 3 degrees F here and we broke a 99 year old record for cold on this date last night. Stay warm folks!

 

[RDaneel]

Superlative TC Barlows, Dean! Thursday must have been a good day with that pair in pocket!

Here are pics of more knives I'm carrying this week.
I have a MAM sheepsfoot, but unlike flatblackcapo, I don't have the imagination to modify it:

- GT

Thanks, Gary! That MAM looks like a sturdy companion. :thumbup:

Saynor Cooke & Ridal
Obtain
Sheffield
England

Interesting knife, Gev. What is the handle material?

 

[Gevonovich]

I'm becoming very attracted to the hawkbill/pruner patterns. That's a nice one Gev!

Had these with me when I headed out the door to feed the birds and snow blow the driveway and walk. It was 3 degrees F here and we broke a 99 year old record for cold on this date last night. Stay warm folks!

Thank you kindly, Gary I love the pattern and caught the bug from someone up Waynorth Two outstanding carries today! BE careful out in the cold and snow!! That is cold..brrrrr

Interesting knife, Gev. What is the handle material?

Dean, it is some kind of synthetic. It's well fitted to the knife and has me puzzled as to whether its original or not. My "read" is its not, but no worries for me on that front. I love the knife and it has wonderful walk and talk and I love its diminutive and svelte stature compared to most in the genus

 

[Stropping Young Lad]

I call this: I'd rather be in Arizona.

Cold one today.

 

[10fingers]