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Jeff it was great to meet you and @herder!Well I just had a great day! Drove up into the land of cheese and Green Bay Packers fans for the Badger Knife Show.
Met for breakfast with three other porch members and two very lovely wives~
@Old Engineer,Half/Stop , and @herder. Herder shared several dozen collector grade knives as we turned our corner table into a neighborly porch.
The reason I added this little report to Harry’s post is because he was kind enough to have brought this ironwood 77 for me to ogle. Trust me ~ it’s nicer in person than the photos!
And Harry generously provided me with a couple of fine slipjoints which he knew I’d enjoy, and I welcomed him to the Venerable Voos Club since I knew he didn’t have one.
The show was great, and packed. We each made some succesful deals, and saw some nice stuff. The best part, of course, was getting together with some really great folks!
Harry I appreciate the loaner. I feel almost naked without a knife in my pocket. Pam and I had an absolutely wonderful visit with Harry and Nancy! Thanks again my friend, y’all are a most gracious host and hostess!Posting this forHalf/Stop today since he and his lovely bride Pam are our house guests and unable to post for himself ; A Pickle Knife
Harry
Beautiful TEW’s and a great bounty from the show Harry!
Thanks for the kind remarks Stuart!Please give Miss Pam a hug from me and a pat on the back to Ron. I trust him without reservation around my knives, but watch your bath towels and libations, as he's a country boy, ya know. More seriously, I hope that y'all have a great time together. Tell Ron that his Pickle knife is the real dill.
- Stuart
Are you missing a pink and white towel ?? Now let me understand this : a guy from North Carolina is calling a guy from Tennessee a Country Boy ????
Harry
He brought that old towel to your place? All I know, Harry, is that he wrote a check to me when he visited us and signed it with an "X" that he then put a circle around. I told Ron that I'd seen guys in my neck of the woods sign with an "X", but i hadn't seen the circle before. He said the when he was in the big city, he didn't like to use his real name.
- Stuart
What a nice portrait of that beautiful Richartz, Dwight.
Old Craftsman barlow modified by Glennbad...
Stuart, some neat history there. Sorry about your Tarheels but they did better than my home state Badgers this year. That photo reminds me of one of my favorite movies, Hoosiers.
A great story. From all I have pieced together from your many and disparate posts, he seems to me, somewhat of a Renaissance man. He certainly had exquisite taste in knives.![]()
Today with Case Mini Trapper in stag...
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Who gets to go south and who stays back in NY?
Fulfilling my "Ambassador duty" today. The piston navaja from Albecete, Spain.
The artwork of @ArtesaniaHerreros
I don’t think I have carried these two Remingtons together on the same day.
Todays carry is a nice VOOS that was gifted to me byAmir Fleschwund the other day . Very nice jigged bone and the knife is generally in Great Shape . Thanks a lot Jeff it was very thoughtful of you my friend .
Nice Harry, just so happens I'm carrying my Imperial today
A nice matching pair of single blade Case knives today...
Nope. I just thought “he sure beat the hell outa that poor thing in only one day”.
Carrying this Remington today
Harry and Stuart had some fun with those last two posts!Both are fine gentlemen and I’m proud to call them my friends!
Back in the saddle this morning with these two!![]()
The Remington thread got me thinking about this silver bullet knife; I don’t carry it very often and don’t know why
Thank you fine Sir ! The other blade is just as skinny...lolCool knife and love that skinny long blade.
Handsome old 'rat, Gev.
Schrade Walden MC 1, Viet Nam Era.
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That’s a pattern I need to get!
Jeff it was great to meet you and @herder!
Harry I appreciate the loaner. I feel almost naked without a knife in my pocket. Pam and I had an absolutely wonderful visit with Harry and Nancy! Thanks again my friend, y’all are a most gracious host and hostess!
Beautiful TEW’s and a great bounty from the show Harry!![]()
Thanks for the kind remarks Stuart!
Harry and Stuart had some fun with those last two posts!Both are fine gentlemen and I’m proud to call them my friends!
Back in the saddle this morning with these two!
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Thanks my friend!We missed your postings, though Harry had the benefit of your company to assuage him. Welcome back and you certainly hit the ground running with that pair!
Thanks Jeff and I agree traditional knife lovers are mighty fine people! I am indeed blessed my friend! That was a beautiful Pal Utility knife you found at the show.That’s a pattern I need to get!
One of these days...
Likewise my friend! Hard to find a better group of folks than traditional knife lovers. I’m sorry we lost track of @herder in the show~ he sure brought some beauties to show, but he did have a long drive home.
Now you take care of Pam! Like you told me- you’ve been blessed.
Thank thank you kindly, Stuart.Very nice, Wayne, and I like the CLEARCUT that you posted today, too.
Thanks, guys.
That's a beauty, José.
A nice group to choose from, Alan. Travel safely and don't get your duck too muckey.
It makes me stop and stare each time that I see it. Really fine!
Those are some nice ones, Tom.
Thanks for sharing and starting that interesting Rogers bone discussion, Harry.
Ditto to you, too, Steve.
Yes, they are.
I thought the same thing, Jeff. I'm glad that we were fooled.
We missed your postings, though Harry had the benefit of your company to assuage him. Welcome back and you certainly hit the ground running with that pair!
Boy, am I glad that you showed it.
Handsome old 'rat, Gev.
cigarrodog Somehow the multiquote mystics dropped the picture of your old stag Wright from this post, but I did want to just say, WOW!
- Stuart
Thank you Gev. I thank your Dad for his service. Also, I will heed your advice.Thank you fine Sir ! The other blade is just as skinny...lol
Thank you fine Sir ! There is something about this old Pal that's gotta hold on me.
Had one like it......put it in a drawer and next time I looked it was orange goo...shame it was my dads Air Force issued survival knife. Same era. Check on its cover composition ..not sure of the make of the one I used to haveKeep it away from your others in the meantime.
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Those are some nice ones, Tom.
Schrade Walden MC 1, Viet Nam Era.
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I'm not totin' a pair of trappers or other twins for Twosday, as I am totin' some surprises that I received last Friday. As I have recounted previously in this thread, several buddies and I gather occasionally at our favorite local establishment for laughs, lies, and libations. I usually bring a few folders and fixed blades to get/keep the conversation going. A couple of the guys fish/hunt and, so, are interested, but mostly the guys kindly humor me. On last Friday, one regular mentioned that he had accompanied his wife on a short "antiquing" trip to West Virginia. To stave off his boredom, he asked the various shop owners if they had any guns or knives. Along with strange looks, he got to see some backrooms and odd boxes of tools and junk, he said. No guns. He did pick up a few knives to help my recuperation from the kidney stone extraction, though he warned, "they can't be worth much, given what I paid for them." Then he placed them on the bar:
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A Vic Spartan from 2005-2009, a Case 6205R from 1971, and an L. L. Bean Pocket knife from ? I thought I was going to cry, but got away with a quick hug. Recovery complete!
- Stuart
Great horn on that one. I had hoped to tote mine on Saturday but when I fished it out of the tube I was reminded why it never really gets any carry: The stag is just *too* comically fat and rounded. It's good in the hand but brutal in the pocket.
I think it's an attractive look and a decent homage to the old Robeson wormgrooved strawberry bone knives. The weird thing with Queen is they were never really prone to preserving the history of the Robeson sub-brands, e.g. the Pocket-Eze knives of Queen didn't always feature sunken joints and the MasterCraft knives didn't always use the materials & construction the old Robeson factory used. But this does seem like a fitting tribute IMO.
I think you got the Alpha Churchill. Amazing stag on that one!
The ever-useful 18 can only be improved upon in one way: switching out the spey for a punch. Thankfully Case built one of those in amber bone, too.
I've become quite a fan of the 33/033 patterns and I think yours is the nicest example of the stockman I've seen even though I know it's Delrin because of the uncircled shield.
One of the things that got me excited about Queen's later output was that lightning-scarred wood. While it might considered a little gimmicky by some, I really do think it makes for some beautiful and unique knife handles.
You gents are correct. Each of the referenced knives feature bone from the same era of Rogers, I'm almost certain. I have one of the Imperials, two Voos (Vooses?) and a number of other knives from that era with that exact bone - in various states of pocket wear. It is one of my favorite styles of bone overall, up there with classic Winterbottom and Schrade's peachseed.
You worked that thing so hard you tarnished the pins! Good job. But remember, those things aren't being churned out any more.
I have never seen that bolster stamp but that Barlow screams Camillus to me. Thank you for sharing this fine specimen.
Here's my LFP carry today:
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