What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

I was carrying my old Imperial Stockman for my early morning hike down by the river...
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and spied three young bucks getting a drink.
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Nice old Imperial!
But I can plainly see that those three bucks are washing their feet in your river.

BTW, you are blessed to live so close to such beautiful surroundings!
Today I've had my Camillus WW2 era Radio Jack that my good friend Bob ( Bigbiscuit) gave me about a year before he passed. I sure do miss talking to him.

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That’s a treasure!
 
I was carrying my old Imperial Stockman for my early morning hike down by the river...
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and spied three young bucks getting a drink.
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Nice photos. Do you mind showing the blades opened on the imperial? That's some neat looking celluloid.
 
Delightful duo, Tom! That ebony BSK is top-of-the-line IMHO! :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Thanks, Tom. :) Well-matched fixed blade and folder! :cool::cool::thumbsup:



Lotta Rough Riders in my pockets this week! :rolleyes:
Canoe of the Week is RR lockback canoe:
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Big Knife of the Week is a RR marlin spike:
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Watch Pocket Knife of the Week is a RR Copper Ridge pen knife with jigged buffalo horn handles:
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Peanut-ish Knife of the Week is RR half-whittler:
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- GT

Thanks GT! Nice carries, I especially like the white (bone?) on the RR marlin spike :thumbsup:

Thought I'd start carrying a fixed blade again.

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For Wooden Wednesday and Yorkshire Day :)

 
Beautiful knives Paul and I enjoyed the photos and the history of the bridge too . There was a also a railroad " High Bridge " , not nearly that high or long , close to where I grew up out in the country . Most of us country guys walked it but the guys from the small town would not try it . Does your bridge have some small areas on it to get over to the side when a train comes ????
It does Harry:thumbsup: the thing was if you crossed the bridge you then spray painted something to indicate your accomplishment:eek: enjoy the rendezvous my friend and we will talk via phone when you have time when your there:thumbsup:
 
I LOVE Trains and anything and everything about them, one of my most favorite sounds is a distant train whistle. I was working near the Hi-Line bridge today, it's one of the oldest and longest train bridges in the U.S. while working I saw the rail crew up on the bridge today. When growing up it was a rite of passage to walk across the bridge:cool::thumbsup:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Line_Railroad_Bridge
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Worked late and came home to a nice sunset
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Had my Farmboy and Bushboot today:thumbsup:
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Trains, big sky country and beautiful knives. Could life get any better, Paul?
 
Woah! Lotsa posts to like today!
Happy Yorkshire Day to all you Yorkshiremen and Yorkshiremen wannabes!

from "At Last the 1948 Show"
"The 4 Yorkshiremen
(Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort. 'Farewell to Thee' being played in the background on Hawaiian guitar.)

Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.

Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?

Terry Jones: You're right there Obediah.

Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?

MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

GC: A cup ' COLD tea.

EI: Without milk or sugar.

TJ: OR tea!

MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.

EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

TJ: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, 'Money doesn't buy you happiness.'

EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.

GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!

TJ: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!

MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.

EI: Well when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.

GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!

TJ: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.

MP: Cardboard box?

TJ: Aye.

MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!

TJ: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.'

MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

ALL: Nope, nope.."

Goin' European today.
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Man, oh, man, there have been some fine looking knives posted in some beautiful pictures over the past day or so, Yorkshire related and otherwise. I just discovered that I missed an entire page of them! Thanks to all y'all for sharing them. I don't have a foot o'lamb bladed knife (yet), but I do have a wee celebrant for Wooden Wednesday. A 2 3/8" Cattaraugus boy's knife (CCC/Little Valley/N.Y. 3-line stamp on tang 1886-1963):

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In case he runs into some challenges/challengers during the day, he has a couple of larger French cousins nearby:

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- Stuart
 
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