What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Signalprick]

 

[Gevonovich]

A tribute to Fred on this old friends Friday. His granddaughter sent me a picture of him in his shop. I'm carrying his red bone whittler on this fine cold and windy day !

More background on Fred:

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads...l-picture-show.1023176/page-304#post-18531576

 

[Buzzbait]

This Camillus refuses to leave my pocket this week. It's funny how you can put a knife down for almost an year, and then fall in love with it all over again.

I love the tiny hand hammered pins used to attach the bone scales.

 

[flatblackcapo]

Great composition!

Thank you, thank you very much.

Only ONE day behind isn't so bad, in this thread! Does that fob go into your pocket, or hang outside? Is that a Spartan with the serrated/scalloped blade? Cool set-up.

Ahhh, you're just trying to make me feel better. I'll catch up....I will!
That's a Recruit with a serrated main blade. The little pirate hangs out of a pocket slip but rides inside my pocket. I looked for a example pic but everything I found had I inappropriate knife in the pic.

TGIF!!!!

 

[JohnDF]

 

[SVTFreak]

This is a boring shot, but standing under the drip line off the eaves made it a rush job.
I just got this Pal Blade Co TL29 the other day. WW2 production, I am presuming, due to the liners and bolsters being steel. Some sharpening blade loss, but not bad, but the rust was disappointing. Thanks to several soaks in penetrating oil, a lot of the snap has come back. At least opening snap is great. My first ever Pal knife~ lovely bone.View attachment 1037436View attachment 1037435

Great pair, and impressive chunk of petrified wood!


How does it fry with no oil???


Thanks for the looksee! Hope to join you at the March show, Harry.


Hey! I have those same LLBean moccasin slippers! On my 2nd pair.

Infrared heat it says. I shot it up with Cajun butter, coated good with slap ya momma seasoning and it is as good or better than fried turkey. I'll be using it a ton!

This one today helping me cut felt and flocked rubber seals working on power windows.

 

[DelOro]

@Amir Fleschwund

Now that I've recently discovered "Carl's Lounge", I'll write some guitar stories from time to time.

"Girlfriend & Guitar Missing"
>"Reward for Guitar"<
(circa Christmas 1979 comes to mind)

- Del

 

[ArchiveMoto]

simply love this knife, it is a pleasure to carry and use

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

@Amir Fleschwund

Now that I've recently discovered "Carl's Lounge", I'll write some guitar stories from time to time.

"Girlfriend & Guitar Missing"
>"Reward for Guitar"<
(circa Christmas 1979 comes to mind)

- Del

Off to find Carls lounge...

Well, I should say revisit Carl's Lounge!
Sometimes it's hard enough to keep up with just this thread that I neglect all of the other great crannys of the porch.

 

[cigarrodog]

 

[BladeCommander]

My 2018 Knife of the year. New photo showing the patina on blade and brass. Carried in slip, so not too much brass patina.

 

[Prester John]

Top of the morning to everyone!

Friday Movie Quote:

Dr. Leo Marvin: I want some peace, and quiet.

Bob Wiley: I'll be quiet.

Siggy: I'll be peace.

Prickly Pear Cactus (fruit used for: candy, jelly & as fruit) If you dare ???

Have a great Friday!

- Del

Love the death therapy.

 

[Duckdog]

I'm totin' a couple of "different" knives for a freaky Friday carry: Queen #2 serpentine jack and a Queen #36 lockback (which is one of the few lockbacks that Queen made, as well as one of the few bareheads and high carbon steel (1095?) bladed knives they made - it wasn't in their catalog for long). Both are from 1961-1971 and have Delrin Winterbottom covers. (See edits below) Queen was able to make Delrin look pretty good. When fertilizer companies started bidding the price of bone up and government embargoes stopped importation of bone in the late 1950s, Queen had Rogers NMfg. Co. make molds of the real Winterbotttom bone for future conversion to synthetic covers. Queen converted to Delrin in the late 1960s, I understand.

EDIT: After further handling of these knives following this post, I believe that the covers are actually real bone, and not Delrin. I'll leave the Delrin info intact, but wanted to make this correction. Apologies to Delrin fans.
- Stuart

 

[black mamba]

Stuart, both of those knives, at least from photos, could pass for real bone. Beautiful Queens!

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

A tribute to Fred on this old friends Friday. His granddaughter sent me a picture of him in his shop. I'm carrying his red bone whittler on this fine cold and windy day !

More background on Fred:

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads...l-picture-show.1023176/page-304#post-18531576

Great story which makes that knife even more special!

Infrared heat it says. I shot it up with Cajun butter, coated good with slap ya momma seasoning and it is as good or better than fried turkey. I'll be using it a ton!

This one today helping me cut felt and flocked rubber seals working on power windows.

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Thanks for the info...sounds delicious.

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Great photo as usual cigardog! Your mastery of lighting is complete.

D Duckdog ~ Hard to tell those are delrin! When did Mr Winterbottom go out of business? Did it coincide with the rise in cost you mentioned?
Should I assume that companies calling theirs' "cougar clawed bone" were copying Mr Winterbottom's pattern and cutting in house?

 

[Whetstone39]

Happy Friday!

 

[DelOro]

Love the death therapy.

It's a guaranteed cure.

- Del

 

[DelOro]

Ok! Ok! One more knife & movie quote (hint: same move) for Black Friday.

Dr. Leo Marvin: You understand, don't you? There's no other solution. You won't go away.

Bob Wiley: I will.

Dr. Leo Marvin: No, you won't. You're just *saying* you will! But then, after I don't kill you, you'll show up again. And you'll do something else to make everyone in my life think you are wonderful and I'm a schmuck. But I'm not a schmuck, Bob, and I'm not going to let you breeze into town and take my family away from me, just because you're crazy enough to be *fun*.



- Del

 

[Duckdog]

D Duckdog ~ Hard to tell those are delrin! When did Mr Winterbottom go out of business? Did it coincide with the rise in cost you mentioned?
Should I assume that companies calling theirs' "cougar clawed bone" were copying Mr Winterbottom's pattern and cutting in house?

Jeff, according to the information that I have seen, the cost of bone handle production led to the sale of Samuel Winterbottom sons assets in 1968. And, yes, it seems to have started the clawed bone jigging pattern. The information that I put in my post about queen's transition to Delrin is to the best of my understanding. However, you are correct about the difficulty of spotting Delrin Winterbottom and I failed. A bit more handling of those two knives (including scraping my nail and a knife tip across the cut cover edges) has convinced me that they are real bone. The fact that the Model #36 had disappeared from Queen's catalog by the time they switched cover material seems to clinch it. Live and learn.
- Stuart

 

[Duckdog]

Stuart, both of those knives, at least from photos, could pass for real bone. Beautiful Queens!

Thanks and see my response to Amir Fleschwund and my edited post.
- Stuart