What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Duckdog]

D deltaboy Nice Schrade stockman!
- Stuart

 

[SV-97]

Loving how the patina comes along If only it wouldn't mess the edge up that much :/

 

[Jack Black]

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My research shows that tang stamp to be from 1850 or earlier, Rachel!
Definitely qualifies as a golden-ager! Glad you like it!!

Tweedale has three paragraphs on Robert Bunting & Sons. Apparently, Robert Bunting was one of the first Sheffield makers of Bowie Knives. His first trade listing was in 1822 (I may be able to find the date he registered with the Company of Cutlers). He died in 1850, aged 74. The business then passed to his son Richard, still being called R.Bunting & Sons, and they were still in business, and with Richard still working, in the early 1870's. He died on 12th August 1876, aged 74. The business appears to have died with him.

Any thoughts on the original form of that blade?

The Guardians appear to be attempting a coup d'etat!! Lovely lambsfeet!!!

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I'm trying to make it my personal tradition to end each week by posting a pic of the quartet of knives I ALWAYS carry, so here they are again, sittin' on a mitten:

- GT

LOL! Thanks for joining us GT

I'm not sure I'm going to get much rest today, got a heap of stuff to do in the house, including putting up some shelves and coat-racks, which I thought these two might help out with. Have a good Sunday folks

 

[avoidspam]

One from Al Warren today

 

[Will Power]

SV-97 Fine knife and patina, not so much with your choice of language though....

 

[Pt-Luso]

Today with a 1980 Schrade SC506 barlow scrimshaw knife...

Here a wheel of some of my barlow's!!!

 

[avoidspam]

Loving how the patina comes along If only it wouldn't fuck the edge up that much :/

A good stropping should clean things up.....

 

[Travman]

 

[redsparrow]

SV-97 the American Jack is one of my favorites, stropping will clean the edge, editing will clean the post.

 

[deltaboy]

D deltaboy Nice Schrade stockman!
- Stuart

Thanks the Old Gal had a rough life!

 

[SV-97]

SV-97 the American Jack is one of my favorites, stropping will clean the edge, editing will clean the post.

I'll probably throw it on the 10k stone not the post

 

[Invoice]

These two new ones today.

 

[Half/Stop]

Good Sunday to you all! I’m still Totin my Ebony 79 Workhorse this morning!

 

[JTB_5]

Ebonies from France today

 

[Leslie Tomville]

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Have a Blessed Sunday everyone!
JH Lloyd Barlow

donn I sure wish I could have one of those pork pies! They look delicious! And only 1.35, good grief!

 

[waynorth]

Tweedale has three paragraphs on Robert Bunting & Sons. Apparently, Robert Bunting was one of the first Sheffield makers of Bowie Knives. His first trade listing was in 1822 (I may be able to find the date he registered with the Company of Cutlers). He died in 1850, aged 74. The business then passed to his son Richard, still being called R.Bunting & Sons, and they were still in business, and with Richard still working, in the early 1870's. He died on 12th August 1876, aged 74. The business appears to have died with him.
Any thoughts on the original form of that blade?

Bernie Levine should have read Tweedale!! Looks like he is off by twenty-some years.
The knife is stamped "& son" not "& sons". Does that agree with Tweedale, Jack?

 

[r8shell]

Bernie Levine should have read Tweedale!! Looks like he is off by twenty-some years.
The knife is stamped "& son" not "& sons". Does that agree with Tweedale, Jack?

And Goins' Encyclopedia says 1837-1868 (for the &Sons stamp)

 

[donn]

Sounds like you had an enjoyable trip, donn! You're such an international man of mystery: British meat pies, French knives, Austrian rivers, Slovakian vistas ...

Holub electrician (thanks, Dave):

- GT

Never been described as an international man of mystery before. That's made my Sunday
Great electrician there, not a pattern I've ever come across over here.

Thanks Donn Good luck today mate, hope you're not walking lop-sided!

You're welcome my friend, you are always very generous I guess the mark was supposed to look like a British silver (Assay) mark, which it resembles.

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Stan worked for Wostenholm when they were made, and after recently being given some parts by the former owner of one of Sheffield's old cutlery firms, he made a few up, but using different materials (buffalo in this case), and polishing the blades, and bolsters. The tangs have the Schrade-Wostenholm mark, but Stan has stamped the brass liners

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No Jack I just put a pie in each pocket. Didn't fall over once...
Yesterdays:

 

[Jack Black]

Bernie Levine should have read Tweedale!! Looks like he is off by twenty-some years.
The knife is stamped "& son" not "& sons". Does that agree with Tweedale, Jack?

And Goins' Encyclopedia says 1837-1868 (for the &Sons stamp)

Hmmm....

Tweedale reproduces a trade ad with 'R. Bunting & Sons', but doesn't give a date. I may have a copy in one of my own trade catalogues (which you also have in PDF form Charlie). Possibly it is his ad from 1839, which Tweedale refers to in the text. Robert Bunting was at this time working with his sons - Richard, George, and Abner. The change to R. Bunting & Son came after 1856, the son being Richard Bunting's son Henry. During this period, and in the 1860's, they were located on Milton Street, Sheffield, where I had my climbing adventures last week

 

[Jack Black]

Never been described as an international man of mystery before. That's made my Sunday
Great electrician there, not a pattern I've ever come across over here.



No Jack I just put a pie in each pocket. Didn't fall over once...
Yesterdays:

LOL! Fantastic Donn!