What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[kenspen]

Stag 26 today.

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[Gevonovich]

Thanks Gev! She’s a walker and a talker too. Like that oldie you have today!

Thanks it's a small one at 2 &13/16ths. Just sharpened it up and it makes curls now

Along for the ride today.

Looking out my kitchen window at the visitors to my bird feeders. So it seems the birds have allowed the Turkeys and Whitetails to visit. Soon it will be the squirrels and then more birds. I could buy a lot more knives if I stopped buying bird seed!

Great looking knife and watch. I love the menagerie of wildlife

 

[Frailer]

 

[Half/Stop]

These knives are courtesy of our friend @paulhilborn Paul gifted me with a Case Stockman and also RR Canoe two great little knives!
I am overwhelmed with Pauls generosity thank you very much, my friend. Oh yeah, Pauls from North Dakota.
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Great looking gift package from Paul! Paul’s a great guy! Did I tell you that he is from North Dakota!

Two vintage beauties, Ron! Sweatin' with the oldies!

Sweatin’ is one thing I’ve been doing a lot lately at the Y! But I never carry any of my knives or firearms in there! They really frown on that!!!

 

[Dschal]

Company tonight, so Crown Lifter.

 

[flatblackcapo]

A new one for me.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Just got this yesterday, Boker Congress, very nice, well made folder;

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G2

 

[black mamba]

I also carried these two today.

 

[315]

I got called back to work last night and again today. I grabbed an Old Timer 8OT last night and a Boker jigged bone barlow today. But when I got home today I tossed this Camillus in my pocket. I kind of like it, it’s definately a beast!!!

 

[Gary W. Graley]

A new one for me.

That's an attractive folder right there for sure,
G2

 

[dc50]

Great looking gift package from Paul! Paul’s a great guy! Did I tell you that he is from North Dakota!

Paul is a little South East of Nome Alaska

 

[Michael Sankewitsch]

If I take a traditional, its gonna be this one. The scales are what sold me on it - they are not so slick that this will fall out of my fifth pocket. And if it doesn't have a pocket clip, it has to fit in the fifth!

 

[Nature Boy]

Amazing!

Thanks! And to think this had sat around for a couple of weeks!

 

[r8shell]

Saturday is sharpening day.

I managed to put a straight edge back on the sheepfoot blade of the Case Stockman that Trevitrace gave me. It's more like a lambfoot now, though.

 

[Will Power]

Good straight edge on that very nice CASE Rachel Old knives often show how bad peoples' sharpening skills were back in the supposed golden age

 

[Nature Boy]

Nice work r8shell.

 

[Duckdog]

Appreciate the kind comments on this and my two Case users! I can’t believe the deep red bone on the barlow you showed. How old is she?

Thanks, Jeff. 1940-1964.

Thanks for sweet-talking my honey bone canoe, Stuart. Thanks, too, for the updates on Loki. If not for the dish towel lint on his face, I might have guessed he's too serious for tug of wars. I like the bold spearing on your mystery Q knife.

Thanks, GT, and It's still a mystery. Loki is all puppy, through and through.

Thanks for the info on Elmer Keith, Stuart. My only knowledge of him, and some of his early 20th century collaborators and rivals, is via thinly-disguised fictional characters that appear in gun-centric novels, most notably Pale Horse Coming, by Stephen Hunter.

Mr. Keith was quite a guy, GT - a man of many parts. Stephen Hunter is a fine fiction writer, but I got to know his work and enjoy it early on when he was a movie critic for The Washington Post. I read almost every review he put out. He was, also, the only writer (if not only person) at The Post who knew which end of the gun you point toward the target. His short essays about movie firearms were erudite and informative.

With all of the Kissing Cranes flapping around the Porch recently, I decided to tote this one today:

- Stuart

 

[r8shell]

Nice work r8shell.

Good straight edge on that very nice CASE Rachel Old knives often show how bad peoples' sharpening skills were back in the supposed golden age

Thanks.
I'm sure some folks were better at sharpening than others, just like nowadays. Other folks were just too busy using their knives to obsess over perfectly refined edge profiles.

 

[Prester John]

Congrats on a muy magnífico navaja, Vince! How big is that? Does it have the ratcheting sound (carraca ?) when you open it to the locking position? I guess I don't have any proof, but I think that style knife is the ancestor of the modern toothpick pattern.

Thanks, Gary. The knife is just over 4 inches long, about the size of a trapper, but half the weight (only one blade and one spring, no liners, and the stag is very lightweight). It does not have the ratcheting sound (my next one probably will!), but does audibly click open. And yes, it reminds me of the toothpick pattern, too.

 

[Wurrwulf]

A chain saw? I'd cut my arm off!

First time I touched a chainsaw, I took out 10' of my neighbor's fence. I guess it could be worse, the tree could have fallen on me.