What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

I’m not planning to do any Laboring today. If any cutting chores come up I believe Granddaddy’s Old Timer will handle things just fine! ;) Y’all have a great holiday! :thumbsup:

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Misplaced Hillbilly said:
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Blood brothers
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Boy, those are just beautiful. Kim was in here drooling a second ago.

Gotta come catch up later. I'm carrying these two today. I have a soft spot for both because they're such great knives. And the Boker was the first knife Kim ever gave me. The slag glass lamp we picked up this weekend at one of our favorite flea markets.
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Kim's carry for the day. stag-handled Parker pen knife she found at a flea market last weekend. The angel lamp is from the same flea market as my lamp. 'Twas a good day there!
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Our prayers are with everyone in Florida, Carolinas, Georgia, etc. Hope you fare well.
 
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49 years, wow! Any chance you remember what you paid? It’s always relevant but I think my first 34OT in the mid 80’s was between. $12-15. Today’s price puts it at $29-37,which is sort of interesting because that’s what you can get them for regularly on the big auction site. Either way, pretty neat you still use it:thumbsup:
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I can't recall exactly what I paid for it, but I do know I bought it in 1970 & it was the first knife that I paid over $20 for; which was a lot of money for me at the time. After I got out of the USMC in 1970 I drove a truck & hauled produce & fruit from FL to all over the East coast & I remember I bought it in a truck stop in NC somewhere, before I-95 was finished. I carried that stockman every single day for over 30 years before I retired it.
 
Amir Fleschwund said:
That should get the patina going!
I’m about to start in on the same. In my case, I am canning my second batch of salsa.
Not freezing or canning the beans this year~ I just pick them every day, and we eat them as we go. Zucchini too, of course. Usually just sauteed in olive oil with onion and tomatos.
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That knife was already one of my most heavily used, but yes, the patina increased. I should think about canning some salsa too. I just put up two quarts of green and wax spicy dilly beans by lactose-fermentation. I’ll be interested to see how they turn out. I’ve been making my own sauerkraut successfully.
 
black mamba black mamba - Here’s to a quick healing for you, Jeff. Very nice Ulster Jr. cattleman.

@JJ Cahill. Thank you JJ. Turning a negative into a positive is always a fun challenge. Meaning that I like to show detail, even in the shadows, which is challenging when the blade is much brighter than everything else. I see you doing that with your brace of fine Robesons, and doing it quite nicely.

Carrying two, today. Newly acquired A Wright Barlow, hafted in Horn.
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Amir Fleschwund said:
View attachment 1189471 I wouldn’t say I’d been looking diligently for this, just casually keeping an eye out for one to carry and use. This is the exact model of Camillus EO Jack that my Mom’s Dad carried that I have essentially retired. On Grandpa’s, the secondary has a broken backspring, and the main has quite a bit of sharpening loss. This guy has a lot of wear, to be sure, but relatively full blades, at least the main, and strong snaps. It came up as one of the “other items you might be interested in” while killing time looking at vintage Camillus knives on the auction site. I don’t know how one could mistake this lovely old cocobolo for plastic, but that’s what the seller thought it was.
I have spent quite a bit of time looking for this in old Camillus catalogs online, and did find this model, but in bone or stag, in a 1928 catalog. I plan to carry and use this knife a lot.View attachment 1189468View attachment 1189472 I’m also going to be carrying this Cattaraugus electrician today~View attachment 1189469
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I just passed on a jigged bone Camillus Jack on the bay... I think it went for around $70 or so. It was an easyopen two blade, just like that one. I had others I was watching, so I let this one slide on by. Still wouldn't mind having one someday.. looks like you found a good one.
 
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Thanks! I practically drooled on the glass case at the antique mall, there were several mint Cases in it. Including an Elephant toe,another normal redbone barlow, a swell center whittler, I'm very tempted to go get the Elephant toe this coming weekend if the weather aint crazy. You guys carries are exemplary today, those Boker lockbacks are on my radar as well.
I decided to carry the One arm barlow with another fine Case,albeit a more utilitarian model
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