What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[WhittlinAway]

Great pic Greg

Fine photo, Greg. That Calf-Roper is captivating!

Thanks Jack and GT! That stretch of road parallels the main highway for about 5 miles of my morning commute. I've taken to driving it most mornings when the fog is still burning off the Santa Cruz Mountains in the background.

Great photo and reference. I will take a picture of my #66 on the Mother Road this weekend and post it for you.

Thanks. That'd be cool if you have the opportunity!

 

[T. Erdelyi]

This beast was in my pocket most of today. Something about the old Camillus #23 Cigar Jacks instills confidence when you wrap your hand around this full frame folder. It fills the hand for sure.

 

[Pt-Luso]

Oh man very cool!

Thank you so much "dispatch184"

 

[Pt-Luso]

That's a lot of Alox, Pt-Luso!! What a resplendent rainbow of SAKs!

Thank you very much, "it was from the SAK that I started collecting knives, after that I discovered the U.S. traditional ones and for me the best that is the GEC !!!

 

[Pt-Luso]

Today with GEC # 15 stainless steel in my pocket !!!

 

[AShearer]

I have now, officially lost it. I can't remember if I have posted this photo of this knife I have been carrying every day now for a couple weeks. Pardon if I have.

 

[BigBiscuit]

 

[joeradza]

AShearer
I believe you have Alan. However, for outstanding knives it should be required. Hahaha

 

[5K Qs]

Nice poetry GT! You'll be slamming with Gev soon.
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Had to get a few more in.
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Thanks, Tom, but I can't even get in the same ring with Gev!
That's an attractive knife; some kind of congress whittler pattern?

Nice! Do you have any more information on this knife?

Sorry, sticktodrum, I don't know much about it. davek14 sent it to me as a gift a couple of years ago, and I know nothing about its history. Both the clip blade and the bottle opener are VERY thin carbon steel, and the "covers" remind me of the Formica-like countertops, tabletops, and vinyl chair upholstery we had in the kitchen back when I was a kid in the 1950s.

Thank you sir! And, you have now proven that beer has been around longer than traditional folders

Thanks, Alan.

I haven't posted here in awhile. That's because I've been carrying the same knife everyday. CSC did a great job on these Forum knives.

Welcome back, Dean! Superb example of a splendid pattern! Nothing wrong with posting the same knife repeatedly. You seem to prefer sticking with one knife for several days - a one-knife guy at heart?

This one today :

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Harry

That's some standout stag, Harry, even for you!! Does the 0 in the number indicate a Wharncliffe blade?

A "new" old I.XL Barlow restored by a forum mate.

Wow, Falling_rain, that knife isn't lying: it does, indeed, excel!!!

Previous day's knife with open blades, Gev? Outstanding!

Birthday Day Dinner and my favorite knife.

Happy belated birthday, Marty!

Carried something a little nicer for the wedding we went to tonight. Tidioute #13 Whittler in Muslin Micarta.

That's a fantastic picture, Barrett!!!

Thankfully I still had my Bull Nose with me; by the time we got food at the reception, there were no forks, only plastic spoons and knives. The Bull Nose is far better than a plastic knife, and makes a fair replacement for a fork.

I also had a couple good-looking wedding dates.

Saw the sunglasses in the food pic and thought, "Gotta be Eleanor's!" And the next pic confirms that I'm still the absolute King of Fashion! Looks like a fun family outing!

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Carrying these two today The Haywood was in use before (my) breakfast chopping up veggies for my neighbour's guinea-pigs while they are away this weekend. My neighbour finds it odd I carry a penknife, but don't know how else she expected me to chop up all the stuff round the back of her house in the rain this morning

Twin beauties, Jack; sure like the covers on each of them!!

Enjoying home grown tomatoes while they last. Waste of money to buy one in a grocery store.

rockman0, I'm personally not a fresh tomato guy, but that stag Lloyd sure has my mouth watering!!!

Mornin' , Gary. That is a different MAM. This one has been spared from the fiery depths of my modifying mind.
That is one cool Colonial !

Thanks for the MAM info, and for the appreciation of that sweet little Colonial!

That is a cool Colonial GT! And I like the poem too; how about:
I carry a small fixed blade knife
It fits just right in my life

Thanks, Tom. Don't use your clever poetry to lure me over to the fixed blade dark side! Very cool pair of knives you have today, but I have to confess that the stones are just as cool!! Didn't David the shepherd boy grab 5 smooth stones from a stream as he went to fight the giant Goliath? Are those the actual stones?!?

It's Saturday, this one
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Holy cow, oldtymer, how do you resist carrying that one EVERY day??

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GT, Young Man Blues on that album is in my top ten rock songs. Moon at his best. Written as a jazz tune, that genre could not capture the anger of that young man:

. The Who did.

Interesting, Tom. That song may have been my least favorite on the album, although the angry young man motif came through on lots of their songs that I liked better: Summertime Blues, Substitute, and of course My Generation. But I've always been VERY fond of Magic Bus, probably because I rode a bus 30 miles to high school each morning and was always infatuated with some young woman or another.

Thanks Jack and GT! That stretch of road parallels the main highway for about 5 miles of my morning commute. I've taken to driving it most mornings when the fog is still burning off the Santa Cruz Mountains in the background.
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Your 66 is not the first knife you've photographed in that location, if I recall correctly!

I have now, officially lost it. I can't remember if I have posted this photo of this knife I have been carrying every day now for a couple weeks. Pardon if I have.

Alan, when I read your first sentence, my stomach just flipped!! I thought you were informing us that somehow you had literally lost the knife!!! Not that I'm glad you've lost your mind, of course! Didn't you post that pic in the Davison thread when you first got the knife? I was just looking at recent posts in that thread at breakfast today.

Here are two knives that have been assigned to kitchen duty this week.
Rough Rider Half Hawk:

JJ Martinez marinera:

- GT

 

[Old Engineer]

Thanks, Tom, but I can't even get in the same ring with Gev!
That's an attractive knife; some kind of congress whittler pattern?


Sorry, sticktodrum, I don't know much about it. davek14 sent it to me as a gift a couple of years ago, and I know nothing about its history. Both the clip blade and the bottle opener are VERY thin carbon steel, and the "covers" remind me of the Formica-like countertops, tabletops, and vinyl chair upholstery we had in the kitchen back when I was a kid in the 1950s.


Thanks, Alan.


Welcome back, Dean! Superb example of a splendid pattern! Nothing wrong with posting the same knife repeatedly. You seem to prefer sticking with one knife for several days - a one-knife guy at heart?


That's some standout stag, Harry, even for you!! Does the 0 in the number indicate a Wharncliffe blade?


Wow, Falling_rain, that knife isn't lying: it does, indeed, excel!!!


Previous day's knife with open blades, Gev? Outstanding!


Happy belated birthday, Marty!


That's a fantastic picture, Barrett!!!


Saw the sunglasses in the food pic and thought, "Gotta be Eleanor's!" And the next pic confirms that I'm still the absolute King of Fashion! Looks like a fun family outing!


Twin beauties, Jack; sure like the covers on each of them!!


rockman0, I'm personally not a fresh tomato guy, but that stag Lloyd sure has my mouth watering!!!


Thanks for the MAM info, and for the appreciation of that sweet little Colonial!


Thanks, Tom. Don't use your clever poetry to lure me over to the fixed blade dark side! Very cool pair of knives you have today, but I have to confess that the stones are just as cool!! Didn't David the shepherd boy grab 5 smooth stones from a stream as he went to fight the giant Goliath? Are those the actual stones?!?


Holy cow, oldtymer, how do you resist carrying that one EVERY day??


Interesting, Tom. That song may have been my least favorite on the album, although the angry young man motif came through on lots of their songs that I liked better: Summertime Blues, Substitute, and of course My Generation. But I've always been VERY fond of Magic Bus, probably because I rode a bus 30 miles to high school each morning and was always infatuated with some young woman or another.


Your 66 is not the first knife you've photographed in that location, if I recall correctly!


Alan, when I read your first sentence, my stomach just flipped!! I thought you were informing us that somehow you had literally lost the knife!!! Not that I'm glad you've lost your mind, of course! Didn't you post that pic in the Davison thread when you first got the knife? I was just looking at recent posts in that thread at breakfast today.

Here are two knives that have been assigned to kitchen duty this week.
Rough Rider Half Hawk:

JJ Martinez marinera:

- GT

Thanks for the kind remarks GT !!!!
Yes !!! The ZERO indicates that it is a Wharncliffe Blade .

Harry

 

[rockman0]

5K Qs thanks for the compliment on the Lloyd. It's my least expensive custom but my favorite and most carried/used. I cannot remember who said "John Lloyd knives got soul" or I would quote their comment in my sig.
This one quickly took hold of me.

 

[AShearer]

AShearer
I believe you have Alan. However, for outstanding knives it should be required. Hahaha

You are right my friend on both counts!

 

[AShearer]

Alan, when I read your first sentence, my stomach just flipped!! I thought you were informing us that somehow you had literally lost the knife!!! Not that I'm glad you've lost your mind, of course! Didn't you post that pic in the Davison thread when you first got the knife? I was just looking at recent posts in that thread at breakfast today.

Here are two knives that have been assigned to kitchen duty this week.
Rough Rider Half Hawk:

JJ Martinez marinera:

- GT

Looking good there GT! I'm sorry if I gave you a start! I do now remember that I posted that in the Davison thread. So, I think I have found my mind again
Thanks for straightening me out my friend

 

[Gevonovich]

10 am ...ac not cooling..temperature climbing...angst rising ...hammer man...

youtube university...ants and ac contactors..temperature stabilizing

and i think its gonna be a long long time
till touch down brings me around to find
I'm not the man I thought I was at home
Oh no no no
I'm the hammer man

not burning up his fuse alone
it's cold as ice

 

[Half/Stop]

I admire that joint notable pair of Northfield Barlows, Paul & Ron!! Practically twins (fraternal, not identical).

Thank you Gary!

another beauty Ron

Thanks Alan!

I had to work this morning so I dropped this S & M Winterbottom Bone 1095 Barlow in my pocket. When I got home I loaded up my 2014 Stag Jack for some pocket time in town.

 

[bozack]

 

[Old Engineer]

Carried both of these today : Re-cycled pictures



Harry

 

[Old Engineer]

Thank you Gary!



Thanks Alan!

I had to work this morning so I dropped this S & M Winterbottom Bone 1095 Barlow in my pocket. When I got home I loaded up my 2014 Stag Jack for some pocket time in town.

Really like that Forums knife my friend , but your S & M caught my attention too . I have one too and I think it is a pretty good piece . Just never seem to carry it .

Harry

 

[007hunter]

Some Calf Roping today...

 

[Half/Stop]

Really like that Forums knife my friend , but your S & M caught my attention too . I have one too and I think it is a pretty good piece . Just never seem to carry it .

Harry

Thanks Harry! The Stag Jack was the 1st knife and arguably one of the nicest (IMHO), built on the 77 frame. They had the PPP etch on the back of the blade. I bought this S&M from Bob. It has good F&F and is a great looking Barlow. I believe they were actually an SFO for some dealer. Like you for some reason I seldom carry it.