The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Bruce, your stirring post inspired my tote today. Thanks, and congratulations of a good "get".
- Stuart
Your old KK has phenomenal ebony covers; EC certainly knew how to pick extraordinary cutlers!![]()
HNTYKD!
Happy new to you knife day!
Looks like a dandy~ love that clip.
Very nice !
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I’m starting to appreciate my new phones camera.
Is your knife a Camillus?Out at the country house. Electric coffee-grinder died out, how to make coffee from beans???Found a very Traditional Old School method up in the loft...worked a treat
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Nice bunch of knives you got dealt this week, GT.Alox of the Week is a 1986 Soldier:
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non-Alox SAK of the Week is a Huntsman:
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Sowbelly Stockman of the Week is a Rough Rider amber jigged bone sowbelly, my first sowbelly stockman:
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Plain Canoe of the Week is a Rough Rider Masonic Canoe:
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Fancy Canoe of the Week is a red smooth bone S&M canoe (thanks, @peanutsxx):
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- GT
I really enjoy your pictures.
I'm glad you found a way to get your coffee. Makes for a nice picture too.Out at the country house. Electric coffee-grinder died out, how to make coffee from beans???Found a very Traditional Old School method up in the loft...worked a treat
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Gorgeous!!!
Out at the country house. Electric coffee-grinder died out, how to make coffee from beans???Found a very Traditional Old School method up in the loft...worked a treat
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They are the same, except the blades on 27s are a bit thinner than on 29s. Take them apart, and there’s no difference between springs, liners, and bolsters.View attachment 1215710 Well, ain't that sweet!Full blade too, and its action came back.
I really like that old knife.
How big is the #27 ?
Very nice! Makes me wonder why things that work so well get set aside for something shiny and new. We recently tossed out our fancy robotic electric can opener, and went back to a SAK.Out at the country house. Electric coffee-grinder died out, how to make coffee from beans???Found a very Traditional Old School method up in the loft...worked a treat
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I love your photo style! Almost as good as drooling on it in person.
Thank you very much Bruce . In 2014 when I started to collect Barlows I saw that Taylor's Eye Witness made and sold Barlows with Desert Ironwood and Amboyna wood covers . Right then a Barlow with either of those covers was a Grail Knife for me . I do carry mine , but always in a slip . I also like many of the other woods but prefer those with a very tight grain .After spending years accumulating many bone-handled pocketknives (while ignoring wooden handles) all of a sudden these beautiful wooden handles are catching my eye and staying in my mind - this doesn’t bode well for my hobby cash! Simply beautiful gentlemen. OH
Is your knife a Camillus?
Nice Show and Tell my friend . I did now realize that there was a 27 . Nice photos . Very sorry that you lost a good friend . It looks like you are getting pretty good at changing covers .They are the same, except the blades on 27s are a bit thinner than on 29s. Take them apart, and there’s no difference between springs, liners, and bolsters.
This is that knife compared to an older 4 line stamp 29~View attachment 1215785the 29 is on the left.
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More Camillus electrician trivia~ the old ones had the bail mounted forward on it’s own pin. Like this:View attachment 1215791The final version has them mounted on the spring pin at the very rear, like the previous picture.
Very nice! Makes me wonder why things that work so well get set aside for something shiny and new. We recently tossed out out fancy robotic electric can opener, and went back to a SAK.
I would bust up the beans one by one with a hammer if I had to rather than go without coffee!
I love your photo style! Almost as good as drooling on it in person.
A couple of Camillus re-hung in elk antler will accompany me to the memorial of a old and very close friend, who passed due to a severe stroke at way too young of an age.View attachment 1215797View attachment 1215798
Superior knives with bone just made to be paired together, Steve!Ulster jack and a Camillus whittler
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Iconic Barlow and eye-catching photo, Dean!I*XL Barlow.
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Congrats, José; outstanding stag and charming rattail bolster on that knife!Arrived from England (perhaps made in Sheffield) straight into my pocket this beautiful knife single-blade, unbranded, the blade looks like it's been shortened, but with a truly fabulous antique sambar stag.
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As always, an impressive pair, JJ! I really like that Catt with a single spey blade.
Superb vintage pair, Jack! I hope your weather dries out soon....
Morning folks, hope everyone is having a good weekRaining hard here today
Toting a couple of oldies, from Alfred Blackwell and Joseph Rodgers
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That colorful HJ is a charmer, John! Kudos to @knowtracks for his generosity.
Another pair of venerable workers/winners, Jeff! You call them "old girls", and I think of my knives as being male, usually; I wonder why folks differentiations in that regard. (Do you have some knives of each gender??Today, I will enjoy these old girls...View attachment 1214070Camillus TL-29 in cocobolo, and a High Carbon Cattle knife made by Camillus for Sears in bone.
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Thanks for the info, Todd. I wonder if A.G. Russell is targeting a different market now?No. It appears they've been redesigned eliminating the lanyard hole in favor of the pocket clip. Since I carry mine in a slip with a lanyard, I still have no trouble accessing it without the concern that the clip will hang on something and pull the knife out of my pocket.
A lot of variety in materials, blades, and styles in that pair, Dean! That 2015 Forum knife is a very attractive pattern.Ancient 2.0 TC Barlow and CSCs Bladeforums knife from 2015.
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Good wood, and exceptional toothpick, @JOELSM !My contribution to Wooden Wednesday
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This one just came to me in yesterday's mail, an ebony handed, pre-1940 E. C. Simmons Hardware "Keen Kutter" regular jack. After seeing all the nice, vintage ebony handled knives here on the Traditional Forum, I started looking for something that was similar to what I was seeing - finally found one. This one has my favorite main, a Clip, and great snapping half-stop blades. OH
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Congrats on the handsome ebony Simmons Keen Kutter jack, Bruce!I woodn't miss the opportunity to tote this ebony clad Ulster serpentine jack (1876-1941) on a Wednesday, wood you?
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- Stuart
That gift Old Timer is a fitting tribute,I’ll carry one Grandad gave me for the next few days...
Sweet mod of your Okapi, Tom!!Totin’ this modified production knife this Wooden Wednesday: ...
Belated birthday greetings, ma'am; I hope it was a happy day and that the happiness lasts until the next one!Happy birthday to me!View attachment 1214557
The jigging on the toothpick looks outstanding, JJ! How big is the toothpick?My Thursday totes are a couple of reissue knives from the eighties; a Winchester toothpick by Queen made in '87 and a NYKCo BSA scout by Schrade made in '85.
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I always enjoy your posting that VERY pleasant knife, José!Today in my pocket this Portuguese all stainless steel and scrimshaw.
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I know you like awls/punches, Rachel, but I'm surprised to find you carrying a knife with ONLY a punch!Wowza, that's a nice find!
I like it: "Gudenov. The normal, middle child."
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Quality Queen Barlow, @HFinn !