What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Pinemoon said:
Lemme echo this as well.
I was a tactical guy, but the knife Gods found me and I was healed.
seriously, I tried a couple traditional knives after seeing a few YouTube videos and was hooked. I discovered I really like a spring in my knife.
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You’ll find many here also have a few modern knives. We just choose to hang out here where the attitude is traditional. I’ve got a few. I just prefer to carry my traditionals. I might clip my small sebenza on when I’m working on the 33 (never clip one on when working on painted/finished cars) or working in the woods or on the house. But gaurantee a traditional is in my pocket always.

This area of the forum is more about the friendship and the attitude than the knives that it’s centered around. At least for me.
 
Got my work all completed for today! I’ve cleaned up and slipped into something Stag for the rest of the day! ;) Pam’s making homemade nachos for dinner and we’re getting ready for an evening of #1 ranked basketball! :D

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Buzzbait said:
You could but, but if you bet against the Camillus......... you’d lose your money. It’s just too good not to carry.

Riding next to the Camillus today, is an old PAL scout. The PAL is kind of unique in that it has a pen secondary instead of an awl. I really like having the smaller pen blade on hand for precision work.

These two knives kind of look like pals, sharing old war stories on the porch.

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Just gorgeous, nice warm patina! I might have to get me an old scout after seeing your beauties. They’ve really grown on me!

I had the old Camillus stockman the last few days but switched to this little Challenge today.
 
SVTFreak said:
You’ll find many here also have a few modern knives. We just choose to hang out here where the attitude is traditional. I’ve got a few. I just prefer to carry my traditionals. I might clip my small sebenza on when I’m working on the 33 (never clip one on when working on painted/finished cars) or working in the woods or on the house. But gaurantee a traditional is in my pocket always.

This area of the forum is more about the friendship and the attitude than the knives that it’s centered around. At least for me.
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Gotcha,
Yeah the Porch is great.
And learning about new knives is the icing on the cake :)
 
Pinemoon said:
This pair for the weekend:
Case Seahorse and Arno Bernard Small Hunter in Warthog

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Very interesting photos . I am a fan of the Seahorse Whittler and that is a beautiful Arno Bernard . I once bought an Arno Bernard for a gift for a future Grandson-in-law and thought that it may very well have been the most perfectly made knife that I had ever held . I really admire yours my friend . Thank you for the pictures .

Harry
 
kai76 said:
Just gorgeous, nice warm patina! I might have to get me an old scout after seeing your beauties. They’ve really grown on me!

I had the old Camillus stockman the last few days but switched to this little Challenge today.
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What a beauty
 
Old Engineer said:
Very interesting photos . I am a fan of the Seahorse Whittler and that is a beautiful Arno Bernard . I once bought an Arno Bernard for a gift for a future Grandson-in-law and thought that it may very well have been the most perfectly made knife that I had ever held . I really admire yours my friend . Thank you for the pictures .

Harry
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Funny, Harry. I’ve bought Arno Bernard knives as gifts before and had such similar feelings, but for some reason I won’t buy one for myself. :confused: Go figure.
 
SVTFreak said:
You’ll find many here also have a few modern knives. We just choose to hang out here where the attitude is traditional. I’ve got a few. I just prefer to carry my traditionals. I might clip my small sebenza on when I’m working on the 33 (never clip one on when working on painted/finished cars) or working in the woods or on the house. But gaurantee a traditional is in my pocket always.

This area of the forum is more about the friendship and the attitude than the knives that it’s centered around. At least for me.
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First let me state that I am truely in awe of the collections that you all have accumulated... Over the past 6 months I have been quietly lurking and appreciateing the almost limitless number of well loved, studied and appreciated "tools" ( if I can really bring myself to stretch the word "tool" far enough to describe these working pieces of art) but in all of this gawking, a few question have arisen: First being are there any books currently in print that you guys would recommend that would allow me to learn more about tradition folders (without constantly having to ask an endless amount of questions) and further my knowledge? And 2: I come from a firearm background, and I have collected, sold, refinished and built a fairly substancial number of them, in so I have established what some would call a strange feeling about collectables. The biggest of which being that I feel when you look at a fine rifle or over-under shotgun, you are really only getting a small portion of the whole picture. The use of a fine tool is where its value truly lies. So my question is, do collectors have multiple collections? Do you have one drawer of "users" and a climate controlled, sanitary room used only to house special knives that you only touch with white silk gloves? Or is part of the beauty of each knife its function? Sorry for the long post, I'm finding my way to sanity , and developing an appreciation for art all in one swoop here. Thanks for letting me lurk ladies and gents.
 
Bearded Grizzel said:
First let me state that I am truely in awe of the collections that you all have accumulated... Over the past 6 months I have been quietly lurking and appreciateing the almost limitless number of well loved, studied and appreciated "tools" ( if I can really bring myself to stretch the word "tool" far enough to describe these working pieces of art) but in all of this gawking, a few question have arisen: First being are there any books currently in print that you guys would recommend that would allow me to learn more about tradition folders (without constantly having to ask an endless amount of questions) and further my knowledge? And 2: I come from a firearm background, and I have collected, sold, refinished and built a fairly substancial number of them, in so I have established what some would call a strange feeling about collectables. The biggest of which being that I feel when you look at a fine rifle or over-under shotgun, you are really only getting a small portion of the whole picture. The use of a fine tool is where its value truly lies. So my question is, do collectors have multiple collections? Do you have one drawer of "users" and a climate controlled, sanitary room used only to house special knives that you only touch with white silk gloves? Or is part of the beauty of each knife its function? Sorry for the long post, I'm finding my way to sanity , and developing an appreciation for art all in one swoop here. Thanks for letting me lurk ladies and gents.
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As for books, I am sure there are some good ones to be had, but don't have any yet. But I've learned a lot from the forum.
As for collectors, there are all kinds. Speaking for myself, I don't have any "safe queens" and I don't have display cases. I carry and use and enjoy my knives, and I buy what I like.
 
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