What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Rondeau day 4.

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Duckdog said:
It should be celebrated, Gev; that's a very fine looking knife. I'll bet that it carries well.
- Stuart
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Thank you Stuart !!! It is a little big at five inches but deserves some pocket time. I love the knife and it is a great user. I really like the long blade on it; quite useful and if I need a small blade its got it.
 
Dadpool said:
My pal the Peanut already had quite a bit of character, but a waist-high butterfingers drop onto concrete this morning added some real character marks. ;):thumbsup:

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I remember when my Halfrich rounder took a header onto the driveway a few years. I've gotten over it but it took awhile!
Carry it in good health!
 
Dadpool said:
Believe it or not, this is plain ol' yeller Delrin! It's one of my favorite cover materials.

It did get a couple dings, but they're harder to capture on camera (and I don't mind them, either).
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I hear you on that yellow delrin!
The first pocket knife I bought was a Schrade 293Y trapper. back in the ‘70s. I was so fond of it, I bought a second for my wife, but all she’ll carry is a SAK on her key chain, so the second one is still in it’s tube.
R8shell kindly gifted me a matching 881Y, and 108Y, so I can go all yellow delrin.
 
Cambertree said:
Nice one, Jer. I like that Puñal too.:thumbsup::cool: I know next to nothing about them, but it looks like a very nice score. Seeing it made me think, if it were to turn up in the pages of the Books and Blades thread, it couldn’t fail to be paired up with the gaucho influenced works of Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges, freighted as they often are, with portentous blades: Streetcorner Man, The Meeting, Rosendo’s Tale, and of course, his poem: The Dagger.:thumbsup:
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Is he the guy who wrote one about multiverses in a garden? I haven't read him, but always meant to. Maybe I can find some dual language editions, since I've always meant to learn Spanish too.
I don't know why I'm so drawn to punales. Maybe the rigid scabbard, the general purpose blade; maybe the flash of them is a nice break from my Anglo-Saxon understatedness.
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The seller described this as used, but I'm not sure it isn't NOS. The blade is getting scuffed from my sheathing and unsheathing it, which would have happened already if I weren't the first user.

Leslie Tomville said:
It is great to see the Churchill getting so much attention. What a knife! Comparing it to the new 77 Barlow makes me appreciate it even more. It has almost the same blade capacity in a lighter, slimmer, and more comfortable package. (But do not ask me to give up my 77 either!)
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I'm not wild about my Churchill. I ought to give it more of a chance, I guess.
 
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In light of the Spring green-up, I'm totin' some green bone today: a Needham swell center jack in smooth bone and a Case pattern 45 cattle knife in jigged bone. All that I can see on the Needham tang is EEDHAM over HILL ST over SHEFFIELD on the pen and SHEFFIELD over ENGLAND on the spear main. I take that to be Needham Brothers (1860-1900), but I'm unsure. The Case is the NKCA knife for 1987 (number 531 of 7000).

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EDIT: After looking at the hole in the mark side cover at the center pin on the Needham, it looks like the covers may be horn, but I'm unsure.
- Stuart
 
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scrteened porch said:
Is he the guy who wrote one about multiverses in a garden? I haven't read him, but always meant to. Maybe I can find some dual language editions, since I've always meant to learn Spanish too.
I don't know why I'm so drawn to punales. Maybe the rigid scabbard, the general purpose blade; maybe the flash of them is a nice break from my Anglo-Saxon understatedness.
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The seller described this as used, but I'm not sure it isn't NOS. The blade is getting scuffed from my sheathing and unsheathing it, which would have happened already if I weren't the first user.
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Yes, The Garden of Forking Paths. I have a bilingual edition of his Selected Poems which I used for the same objective, and which may still be available. It's interesting, in that Borges supervised the translations, and his understanding of English was informed by his fluency in Anglo-Saxon.
Boker Arbolito knives get a reference in a couple of his stories too, from memory.

I was a bit deflated, when I took an Introductory Spanish class, and between what I'd already learned from my South American friends and reading Borges, the Catalan teacher said I spoke Spanish like a Uruguayan farmer!

I like the Punal's combination of adornment, with the pleasingly functional and classic form, as well.

It's late (or early) here now, but I admit that tomorrow, I'll be carrying one of the pinnacles of functional understatedness, myself...
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