What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Wowbagger]

Flatblackcapo,
I got your background but could I please see another photo of that handle on the Case.
Looks fantastic . . . and is that spear point blade as beefy as it appears ?

 

[Jak3]

 

[RDaneel]

Super study in scarlet, Dean!!

My "Free Choice" knife that's not on my rotation schedule is a Rough Rider pen knife with copper bolsters and jigged buffalo horn covers:

- GT

Thank you, Gary, for the kind comment. Your buffalo bedecked pen is bodacious!


My Sunday-go-to-meetin' knife this week is a GEC Congress Whip.

 

[Wowbagger]

Who can spot the SECOND knife ?

 

[Duckdog]

I'm spending a lazy wet Sunday with a couple of older gents. A Craftsman Sta Sharp stockman made by Camillus for Sears & Roebuck sometime between 1927-1940, and a W.H. Morley & Sons sleeve board pen from 1913-1927. They are content to keep me company.

A prior owner liked shiny blades more than etching and "polished off" almost all of the Craftsman Sta Sharp etch on the main, leaving only the HIGHCARBON STEEL U.S.A. tang stamp (indicating Camillus production). The Morley wasn't denuded like that.

The Craftsman does have some nice file work on the back of the center liner, at least for a work knife.

- Stuart

 

[Duckdog]

Who can spot the SECOND knife ?

On the level square.
- Stuart

 

[Whetstone39]

Thanks for the follow-up info about your Jokers, gentlemen! My Joker is definitely bigger than I typically carry, but I don't realize how big it is when I'm carrying it like I have this week.
I appreciate the positive comments on my SAKs (and other knives). Tom, your photos have probably been major contributors to my "Alox Pox". donn, that German sodbuster is cool. Are those snowdrops in the photo, and are they currently blooming???


My Peanut of the Week is a Remington 'nut:

My "Free Choice" knife that's not on my rotation schedule is a Rough Rider pen knife with copper bolsters and jigged buffalo horn covers:

- GT

Nice carries GT! Mine is the same size as donn’s and Jack’s, just a hair over 3 1/2 inches.

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And I definitely have “alox pox”

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[flatblackcapo]

Flatblackcapo,
I got your background but could I please see another photo of that handle on the Case.
Looks fantastic . . . and is that spear point blade as beefy as it appears ?
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Always good to see that others appreciate fine bicycle tools. Check out Abbey Bike Tools, if you haven't already.
The handle material is G10

The spear blade is a bit beefy at 2 mm thick

 

[Duckdog]

5K Qs Very nice horn on the RR, GT.
Will Power I really like that Case teardrop. Elegant.
JTB_5 The bone on the Boker is an eye-catcher!!
Boy, there are a bunch of nice knives popping up.
- Stuart

 

[rswanson]

It's warm enough to get out in the garage and I don't have a full honeydew list. Two rare occurances occuring at once, I'll take it!

 

[JTB_5]

5K Qs Very nice horn on the RR, GT.
Will Power I really like that Case teardrop. Elegant.
JTB_5 The bone on the Boker is an eye-catcher!!
Boy, there are a bunch of nice knives popping up.
- Stuart

Thanks Stuart! When I saw that Boker I’d never seen bone jigging like it. It’s a fun one and took a wicked edge.

 

[black mamba]

Thank you, Will and Jack, the coffin jack is my favorite of the black box Winchester patterns. The knurled bolster just adds something special for me, along with the slender spear main.

 

[jstrange]

Tottin my new Cattle knife today. Love this thing. I’m gunna try and carry it exclusively for a month and see how it goes. I’m used to carrying one had openers with pocket clips so this will be a big change for me.

 

[5K Qs]

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Thank you, GT. A fine assortment of canoes you have today, I like the looks of that Buck especially.

Churchill and his Hound today.

Dylan, did you originally have some reservations about the color of the mustard jigged bone on the #56? I think it looks great with that ebony!
Thanks for commenting on my canoes. Your mention of the Buck reminded me that I never replied to your question about the wood covers of that Buck canoe. All I've ever seen it called is "woodgrain"; that Buck 389 is a $20 Chinese canoe with 420J2 stainless, so I doubt if the wood is very "special".

She seems amused by the snow. Admittedly, though, she hasn't played outside too much since we've been here because the temps have been pretty cold. It’s supposed to “warm up” a bit next week, with a few days forecasted in the upper-20s/lower-30s, so hopefully we can take her out and play in the snow a bit more then.

I bet you could do some cool stuff with some sort of needle applicator and a bit of mustard.

I've been carrying/using these three a lot around the house the last few days. (The rest of my knives are one of the last things I have left to unpack, so I've been limited to the few that I kept accessible -- these three, a #15 Crown Lifter and a #15 Farm Boy.)

It's been a while since I've been amused by snow! I hope she enjoys her winter adventures.
Nice trio of knives (and I was glad to read that you have a Farm Boy available), but you can't consider yourself "moved in" until you've got your knives squared away!

I chose two very different knives to carry today for two different purposes. The 1978 Case 6347HP large stockman is for EDC knife duty during the day. It is ready, willing, and able. The Laguiole Extra (which I just found in another unopened box of my late stepfather's stuff and for which, per the price tag in the Laguiole box, he paid $29.00 in the 1980's) is for when I join my buddies late this afternoon for cocktails. It will be my cocktail discussion icebreaker (thankfully, the bar staff have grown accustomed to my various knives being passed up and down the bar, including my larger fixed blades).

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- Stuart

Praiseworthy pair, Stuart! Handsome horn on the Laguiole, and I like the frame of that 6347! Any idea what the "HP" means?

5K Qs You are the veritable commodore of canoes.
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- Stuart

I DO find canoe patterns quite irresistible!

Carrying these Red Sawcut Northfield Barlows . Re-cycled pics ...

Harry

A 72 and a 73
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Harry

Ravishing red sawcut bone, Harry, followed by staggering stag!!

Another pawn shop knife roll rescue.
Nothing special, but it needed rescuing.

Congrats on your successful rescue operation, @mykel m !!

Still here.

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That's a stunner, Paul T!!

Morning folks I'm off to a friend's 40th birthday party later. I've got a couple of knives for him, and these two in my pockets. Have a great weekend everyone

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The Horn and Alox pleasurably complement one another, Jack! I hope a good time was had by all at the milestone birthday party!

No matter what knife is in the right front pocket, there's an Alox Cadet in the left. It'll be the blue one today.

Be true blue to that beauty, @Ironbut !

Lots to do and get done today before I park myself in front of the TV and zone out watching Winter Olympics.

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That triple-header looks better each time I see it, r8shell! My family is currently watching Olympics (live or DVR, I don't know).

Expecting over 3” of rain over the weekend so I’m going with a quick cell phone photo and my old buddy.

I hope you come through the deluge OK, Ron; 3 inches of rain sounds much worse than the 3+ inches of snow we got this morning! Your OO 73 is incredible, but I'm NOT going to forget that you have the OO Dixie stockman that's at least as impressive IMHO!!

Got my small Case whittler laser engraved last night where I work, one of the very few perks but, it is nice to have a friend in the machine shop from time to time!
Celtic cross put into the bolster, small about 1/4" square but still pretty detailed.
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close up of the engraving;

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That's an exquisite embellishment to your new knife, Gary!!

Thanks! Learning on the porch

That's one of my favorite things about this place, Joshua! I learn something new almost every day, even though I've been here almost daily for 4 years!

My carry picks today are similar in thought as yesterday's. Another stockman for any real work, a Case 5347 (in stag for Stagurday) from the 1940-1964 era; and a "fancy" knife for a party we are attending tonight, a Saturday Night Special by Parker Cutlery Co. (Eagle brand) in MOP and abalone from 1978-1991. The spey blade on the Case has the ominous etch "FLESH ONLY". Yikes!

- Stuart

Yowza, those are BOTH fancy knives to my eyes, Stuart!!

... It seems that 5K Qs appreciates stockmen, too, so I've posted a few up for those of us who like them. ...
- Stuart

Thanks for that, Stuart! My problem is I like almost ANY knife ANY person posts.

Most recent acquisition:

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Congrats on the Schrade+ USA 93OT, Heath!! I won one in a GAW several years ago, and the clip/sheep blade combo is tough to beat!

Still cycling through others in my collection after the loss of my Boker. Trying to find the next "just right".
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Probably take a while to find something to replace that Böker Barlow you carried so long. Great photo! I'm a sucker for the log/dog/barlow/axe pics!

Another warmup. Back to my usual workhorse.

Beautiful pic, Dschal!

Weekly photo of my "eternal" carries:

- GT

 

[K Williams]

Haven't posted much lately, weather has been nasty for picture taking. Still totin this one

Which GEC is that?

 

[JTB_5]

Which GEC is that?

Looks like a Churchill, #35

 

[K Williams]

Looks like a Churchill, #35

Thanks.

 

[Will Power]

I'm spending a lazy wet Sunday with a couple of older gents. A Craftsman Sta Sharp stockman made by Camillus for Sears & Roebuck sometime between 1927-1940, and a W.H. Morley & Sons sleeve board pen from 1913-1927. They are content to keep me company.

A prior owner liked shiny blades more than etching and "polished off" almost all of the Craftsman Sta Sharp etch on the main, leaving only the HIGHCARBON STEEL U.S.A. tang stamp (indicating Camillus production). The Morley wasn't denuded like that.

The Craftsman does have some nice file work on the back of the center liner, at least for a work knife.

- Stuart

Those old gents show some fine manners indeed

Particularly like the Morley, choice bone and that Sleeveboard is my kind of pattern. Do you know much about it and could you give dimensions please? I like the plant motif as tang-stamp, Morley is not a German name and I'm surprised they would put & Sons on it, well, I suppose Böker did that and it was an export item. Did the company go on till WW II do you know?

Thanks, Will

 

[Duckdog]

I like the frame of that 6347! Any idea what the "HP" means?

Thanks for the compliments, GT. Case uses a lengthy and convoluted (to me) code of 24 pattern suffixes to specifically identify the blades and bolsters used on a particular knife if its pattern has several optional blades/bolsters, e.g., Sh for sheepfoot, Sp = spey, 1/2 = clip master (instead of a spear master). For multi-blade knives, where the pattern number a suffixes could get cumbersome, they cut the suffix to the last letter of the suffix, so a 6347HP is a 3 blade (the "3") stockman (the "47") with bone handle (the "6") and both a sheepfoot and a spey blade. I saw your SBJ, but am no longer covetous since I picked one up, too.
- Stuart

 

[Duckdog]

Will Power W.H. Morley & Sons was a part of Adolph Kastor & Bros. of NYC, NY and imported knives from Austria and Germany. The Clover was a Kastor trademark. As far as I can tell, Morley ceased business by 1927. The knife is 3 3/8" closed, 3/8" thick, main is 2 1/8" long.
- Stuart