What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[screened porch]

The little one is 2.5" closed.

 

[Bugdoc]

Miscellaneous

Love the way that yellow pops GT. I need to get serious about finding a GEC yellow rose.

The carries for the past couple days!
09-19-17 - Shilin Cutter

09-20-17 - Bret Dowell Native in Barbed Wire Micarta + a Reese Bose Gent no.9

09-21-17 - Reese Bose Prototype Backpocket

A characterful quartet you have there Tim. (I should leave the wordsmithing to GT I suspect....) The Micarta on the Dowell is the best I've seen.

Frame Free Friday for me today. TAD 892. Light as a feather.

 

[Nature Boy]

Great picture of how it should be.
- Stuart

Thanks, Stuart. I feel quite fortunate that the kids have been enjoying some evening hikes with their old man.

Thanks for showing off that Porch "mascot" all week, Mike.
- GT

Absolutely my pleasure, GT.

 

[FLymon]

Toting two today.
4 Blades
2 Springs
2 Bails

 

[Duckdog]

The carries for the past couple days!
09-19-17 - Shilin Cutter

09-20-17 - Bret Dowell Native in Barbed Wire Micarta + a Reese Bose Gent no.9

09-21-17 - Reese Bose Prototype Backpocket

Fantastic knives shown well in great photos. Thanks.
- Stuart

 

[Stropping Young Lad]

Toting two today.
4 Blades
2 Springs
2 Bails

Two patterns that absolutely deserve to be made again.

 

[Duckdog]

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I laughed so hard at that picture that I spit out half of my morning coffee. Thanks for a great wake-up call!
- Stuart

 

[FLymon]

Two patterns that absolutely deserve to be made again.

Absolutely!

 

[Pt-Luso]

Today...

 

[Duckdog]

@5K Qs GT, according to information I gathered from reference material by John Goins and Richard Langston, respectively, the Presto was made by the George Schrade Knife Company, Bridgeport, CT, a company founded and run by George Schrade from 1929 until his death on September 9, 1940 (his son, George, and grandson, Theodore, continued running it until selling it to Boker in 1956). George had founded the Press Button Knife company on New York City, NY, in 1893. The Presto is an automatic opener (switchblade) based on a push button "safety knife" that he developed in 1906 with his brothers, Jacob and William, at the Schrade Cutlery Company, Walden, NY. The M-2 Paratrooper shown is a Presto model sold to the U. S. military under a WWII contract. Probably more than you wanted to know.
- Stuart

 

[oldtymer]

Two patterns that absolutely deserve to be made again.

Absolutely, I hope they do a run of both next year. Maybe do one of them for the Forum Knife

 

[oldtymer]

todays carry

 

[Gevonovich]

Peerless pearl, Gev! My first reaction to the photo was, "That pearl folder exemplifies the username of a BF member: Smiling Knife!" It has an ear-to-ear grin!

Thank you Sir! That is a high compliment indeed !!!

 

[Cambertree]

Well, your food photo will probably drive me to make breakfast before I finish this post! Excellent equal-ender you have, Chin! Excellent points you raised about the utility of a knife with bail. I like bailed knives mainly for the ability to attach a lanyard (and often attach that to my clothes for "knife security"), but I appreciate the reminder of the variety of services a bail can provide.

Cheers GT. Yes, that's a handy use for the bail as well, although reading your comment did give me a surreal image of you, sporting sagging chinos, chain hangin' from your belt to your pocketknife, swaggering through those halls of academia like an O.G.!

As you know, I've been enjoying my Pioneer a lot: the added capability of those tools, just takes this knife to a whole other level, in terms of practicality, compared to most of my other knives. I am quite curious about the hollow rivet, bailed Soldier too, though.

Quite ingenious how the bail/hollow rivet was also used as an angle/aiming guide for firing rifle grenades.

(-swissbianco's photos)

Yes, The mark is an abreviated version of their 'parronino' brand, and 'MR' is most likely for 'marca registrada', as in trademark. More info on these knives from Chile: El Huasito Parralino

Thanks for the link, my friend, that's an interesting thread. I think those Porch threads that detail a hitherto unknown (to me) traditional knife from a distant part of the world, are just about my favourite kind. Good luck with your search for a full size Huasito Parralino.

 

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SAK Excelsior

 

[Ryouchijtx]

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A characterful quartet you have there Tim. (I should leave the wordsmithing to GT I suspect....) The Micarta on the Dowell is the best I've seen.

Frame Free Friday for me today. TAD 892. Light as a feather.
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Much appreciated! Bret knocked it out of the park with that one; patience was certainly key in waiting to used that barbed wire micarta. Aha GT does have a way with words I'll admit. Great Davison, not often you see knives that well loved Tom.

Fantastic knives shown well in great photos. Thanks.
- Stuart

Thanks Stuart!

 

[WhittlinAway]

 

[Captain Howdy]

2 iconic steels

 

[RDaneel]

38 Orchard Gem today

Nice, Ron. Do you have the matching Cranberry sheepfoot Barlow?

The carries for the past couple days!
09-21-17 - Reese Bose Prototype Backpocket

Gorgeous, Tim. The prototype seems perfect!

Miscellaneous Knife of the Week is an Imperial serpentine jack that rekindled my interest in pocket knives almost 4 years ago:

- GT

Timeless photo, Gary.

Today's carry.

 

[Jack Black]

Synchronicity It led me to some really good stuff I'm listening to now. Thanks to you I found some pearls which prompted me to check on some

Like this old Norvell 1901 - 1911

Moving like a string of pearls - Tai Chi Chuan

That's a fantastic pearl Gev

Cool pic Chin, I'd forgotten about that IXL, nice find

Fantastic pic of your stag in its natural habitat, Jack!

Thanks a lot GT

Quite ingenious how the bail/hollow rivet was also used as an angle/aiming guide for firing rifle grenades.

(-swissbianco's photos)

Fascinating Chin

Awesome photo Greg!

I've had this one with me today Friday night here. Have a good weekend everyone