What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Half/Stop said:
I woke up this morning officially retired! :D Yesterday was my last day at work. My wife took me out for a celebratory meal last night. This morning I am Totin two Cases. The 6347 is a knife that I bought soon after I started to work in the summer of ‘73. The Norfolk is one of my latest acquisitions that I got just before my retirement. By the way all those years were with the same company. :) I’m looking forward to showing y’all the Norfolk after 45 years of use! ;):eek:
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Congratulations on reaching the retirement milestone! What will you do with the added time?
 
@Half/Stop Congratulations, Ron. Welcome to the rest of your life. I retired in 2011 after 36 years with the same folks, same phone number (different title and different desk). I chose April 1 as my last day and never looked back. Those are very cool knives to bookend your career.
- Stuart
 
Jack Black said:
I'm carrying these two today, my 2017 Guardians Lambsfoot, and an Alfred Blackwell Lambsfoot generously gifted to me by @rockman0 :) :thumbsup:

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A wonderful gift, Jack. Those two pair very nicely together.

Will Power said:
While it may not be Saturday, every day can be Stag Day as far as I'm concerned :D

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Excellent Lambsfoot, Will, that stag looks stellar!

Half/Stop said:
I woke up this morning officially retired! :D Yesterday was my last day at work. My wife took me out for a celebratory meal last night. This morning I am Totin two Cases. The 6347 is a knife that I bought soon after I started to work in the summer of ‘73. The Norfolk is one of my latest acquisitions that I got just before my retirement. By the way all those years were with the same company. :) I’m looking forward to showing y’all the Norfolk after 45 years of use! ;):eek:
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Congratulations on your retirement, Ron! A very fine pair of knives to celebrate with.


I have a couple of workhorses with me today. For as big a knife as the Bull Buster is, it really doesn't feel to be too much in hand. A fine knife.

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Half/Stop said:
I woke up this morning officially retired! :D Yesterday was my last day at work. My wife took me out for a celebratory meal last night. This morning I am Totin two Cases. The 6347 is a knife that I bought soon after I started to work in the summer of ‘73. The Norfolk is one of my latest acquisitions that I got just before my retirement. By the way all those years were with the same company. :) I’m looking forward to showing y’all the Norfolk after 45 years of use! ;):eek:
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Congratulations! Other than the being older part, I am jealous lol!
 
Half/Stop said:
I woke up this morning officially retired! :D Yesterday was my last day at work. My wife took me out for a celebratory meal last night. This morning I am Totin two Cases. The 6347 is a knife that I bought soon after I started to work in the summer of ‘73. The Norfolk is one of my latest acquisitions that I got just before my retirement. By the way all those years were with the same company. :) I’m looking forward to showing y’all the Norfolk after 45 years of use! ;):eek:
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CONGRATS RON!!! very happy for you. Enjoy every second of every day my friend:cool::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
D Duckdog

Stuart,

I gave my father in law a R1173L back in 1984 as a Christmas gift, he carried it until his memory began failing a few years ago. You don't happen to have the posters that were sold depicting the knives? They have become quite valuable.

The knives were very under appreciated when they were introduced.
 
Half/Stop said:
I woke up this morning officially retired! :D Yesterday was my last day at work. My wife took me out for a celebratory meal last night. This morning I am Totin two Cases. The 6347 is a knife that I bought soon after I started to work in the summer of ‘73. The Norfolk is one of my latest acquisitions that I got just before my retirement. By the way all those years were with the same company. :) I’m looking forward to showing y’all the Norfolk after 45 years of use! ;):eek:
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Fantastic Ron! Congratulations on your retirement.
 
Nixelplix said:
My nemesis is making itself visible again!o_O;)

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Agreed. I have buddies who basically live backpacking (Traiheads?) and they’ve all told me to eat a few pieces (right as they pop up, your pics looks too mature for ME to eat) - at the beginning of spring - to gain back immunities. I don’t get it as bad, if I do that, but I wouldn’t want to advise something that may put one into anaphylactic shock. I eat it every spring and I do better throughout the seasons. It doesn’t leave scars or last for weeks anymore. Ughhhh, I’m itching looking at that pic. My K9 gives to me several times a year and that’s why I eat poison-ivy.
 
HST said:
Agreed. I have buddies who basically live backpacking (Traiheads?) and they’ve all told me to eat a few pieces (right as they pop up, your pics looks too mature for ME to eat) - at the beginning of spring - to gain back immunities. I don’t get it as bad, if I do that, but I wouldn’t want to advise something that may put one into anaphylactic shock. I eat it every spring and I do better throughout the seasons. It doesn’t leave scars or last for weeks anymore. Ughhhh, I’m itching looking at that pic. My K9 gives to me several times a year and that’s why I eat poison-ivy.
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I am way too paranoid to try eating poison oak! I'm just glad I can see it now, my most recent bad cases have been from bare branches of it in the winter.

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JB in SC said:
D Duckdog

Stuart,

I gave my father in law a R1173L back in 1984 as a Christmas gift, he carried it until his memory began failing a few years ago. You don't happen to have the posters that were sold depicting the knives? They have become quite valuable.

The knives were very under appreciated when they were introduced.
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Jerry, have you been peekin' in my window? I have a Baby Bullet (R1173L) selected for posting and I'll do it tomorrow in honor of your father-in-law. It'll make it special for me, if you don't mind.
No, I don't have any of the posters (of course, they are valuable now when I don't have any). I was lucky to get the knives that I did from my stepfather. My mom "cleaned a lot of his stuff up" before she passed. He just shrugged it off. After he passed, someone decided the several old hardware counter height wood-and-glass floor standing knife display cases (one had Case branding) had to go before I got back to my old home. I do have one or two of his old counter top display cases (not branded, though).
- Stuart
 
Half/Stop said:
I woke up this morning officially retired! :D Yesterday was my last day at work. My wife took me out for a celebratory meal last night. This morning I am Totin two Cases. The 6347 is a knife that I bought soon after I started to work in the summer of ‘73. The Norfolk is one of my latest acquisitions that I got just before my retirement. By the way all those years were with the same company. :) I’m looking forward to showing y’all the Norfolk after 45 years of use! ;):eek:
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Congrats on retirement, Ron! :thumbsup: For me - the wages might not be the same, but I must be having a good time 'cuz the days go by real fast. :eek::p:D

Spring Green 74 today. Kinda reminds me of this time last year.

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Duckdog said:
Jerry, have you been peekin' in my window? I have a Baby Bullet (R1173L) selected for posting and I'll do it tomorrow in honor of your father. It'll make it special for me, if you don't mind.
No, I don't have any of the posters (of course, they are valuable now when I don't have any). I was lucky to get the knives that I did from my stepfather. My mom "cleaned a lot of his stuff up" before she passed. He just shrugged it off. After he passed, someone decided the several old hardware counter height wood-and-glass floor standing knife display cases (one had Case branding) had to go before I got back to my old home. I do have one or two of his old counter top display cases (not branded, though).
- Stuart
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Lol, Stuart not a stalker...

My father in law really enjoyed that knife. It's sitting in a drawer at his house now. We keep an eye on it since he has Alzheimer's. He also had my wife's maternal grandfather's 1940's Case Peanut (he passed away in 1966) but I'm afraid he's misplaced it or lost it. Hopefully it will show up at some point. He was wanting to send it to Case to get the blade replaced and I about had a spasm telling him I'd buy him another one but please don't do anything to it. It had a beautiful earned patina with green bone covers. The blades were worn but you could tell that her maternal grandfather had taken good care of the knife and sharpened it properly, he was a WWI and WWII US Army veteran.
 
5K Qs said:
I appreciate your remark on the quality of my Squirrel photo (since I often can't tell if my pics are decent or not :rolleyes:). Your Huckleberry is so simple, yet elegant! :cool::cool::thumbsup:

Alox Knife of the Week is a Vic Electrician (thanks, @GregC):
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- GT
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Thanks, Gary! Alox knives are cool (see mine below) and your Electrician is Arctic!

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Your knife has exquisite bone. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Half/Stop said:
I woke up this morning officially retired! :D Yesterday was my last day at work. My wife took me out for a celebratory meal last night. This morning I am Totin two Cases. The 6347 is a knife that I bought soon after I started to work in the summer of ‘73. The Norfolk is one of my latest acquisitions that I got just before my retirement. By the way all those years were with the same company. :) I’m looking forward to showing y’all the Norfolk after 45 years of use! ;):eek:
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Congratulations, Ron!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup::D:) Timely selection of pocket carry today; I'm looking forward to seeing the wear on that Norfolk.:D

On the trail today, a Soldier.

 
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