What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Bigburly912]

Today I’m wearing a Tree Brand 4021 on my hip gifted to me by my father a couple days ago on my birthday. I’ve always been in love with this knife, it’s an honor to call it my own.

 

[JohnDF]

I'm going with the Blackwood Barlow today...

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

Love that 54 jack and the obvious fact that you've made a user of it has only added to the character of the knife.

Thank you!
ALL of my knives are users. And unless I’m planning on modding one, they get sharpened before going in my pocket.

But that’s just me. The great thing about this thread is getting to see the old and new, and the users and the pristine collectables. Admiring them is cheaper than chasing them.

And speaking of new ones, you guys with your brand new jacks from Gunstock Jack gotta be happy! They look great.

 

[SVTFreak]

Made a couple night getaway with the wife. Carried the one I carried when I married her. Sorry so dim. We haven’t turned on lights yet. Enjoying kids not waking us up at 530 am.

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

View attachment 1239260Stuck with the 54 and 6308 again, so here’s a shot of the two that are always on me, no matter what’s in my right front pocket.
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[joeradza]

Just a small (for me) micarta by T.A. Davison. It was one of his first 15 or 20 knives.

 

[Signalprick]

 

[Jack Black]

Just a small (for me) micarta by T.A. Davison. It was one of his first 15 or 20 knives. View attachment 1239278

That's unusual Alan, and a piece of history

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

Today I’m wearing a Tree Brand 4021 on my hip gifted to me by my father a couple days ago on my birthday. I’ve always been in love with this knife, it’s an honor to call it my own.

Great knife, and the Dad connection tops it off.

 

[Chief]

Long pull sawcut soup on a cold day is very tasty! Stay sharp and warm!

 

[joeradza]

Long pull sawcut soup on a cold day is very tasty! Stay sharp and warm!

Live the color on it John. Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[TheChunk91]

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Been carry in the 2013 Half Congress the last couple of days, what a great pattern. The long pulls, Rat Tail bolsters, Sheepsfoot main blade and micarta scales, make this a great pocket companion for everyday carry.

 

[5K Qs]

Camillus Navy and a OT'er
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A Remington and an old PAL today
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That Navy knife is notoriously nice, Steve!
Your Camillus, PAL, and Remington look like they could have come from a matched set!

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Not totin’ this one yet, but hopefully will be soon . It is a progress picture of a custom I am waiting on by Evan Miller.
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Congrats on the commendable custom, Tom! Will it be ready by Christmas? Huge handful of outdoor knife!

I've got some bones to pick.

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You're nothing but skin and bones!

That toothpick is top banana!

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Looks like Linus is developing a personal relationship with each of your other lambs foots, Ron!

From the lasts week 'r two.
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Quality quintet, FBC; each one individually is a winner, and together they make a tasty lambs-between-stockmans sandwich!

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Protecting her flock.

Good dog! (And superb knife! )

For today my totes are a toothpick and a sowbelly; an Imperial from 1945-55 and a Winchester BB from the 90s.
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Praiseworthy pair, JJ!! That toothpick is about my age, but is much more polished than I am. Your 4-blade sowbellies are intriguing!

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I picked up one of those Imperials the other week Gary, inspired by your showing your Canoe. Mine is the Stockman, not quite as nice as your Sowbelly, which wasn't an option
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Morning folks, miserable weather here again I'm afraid, so I'm going to hide out in the cinema and watch The Irishman. Just hope I'm not going to fall asleep watching a 3 hour film about house painting Taking my Ashley's Choice SFO for company (and my girlfriend! )
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I hope you enjoy your Imperial stockman, Jack. I have a sowbelly, a big and a small canoe, and a sodbuster pattern from Taylor-Imperial, and they were all so inexpensive that I keep waiting for them to disintegrate. But nothing of the sort so far.
The AC is such an attractive knife that I hope your girlfriend doesn't feel "threatened" by its presence.

Going simple today with a GEC #15 in Ebony...
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Simply stunning with that single spear and the sable/silver sides!

View attachment 1237556 I felt like these two today. Have a great weekend, folks.View attachment 1237557

Handsome handles, both bone and wood!

Lots of lovely leafy lobes, Gev!!

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Harvey, the jigged bone WCLF has become a grail knife for me since they first appeared, and now you've convince me that I have a new "grail donut" too! I used to hold in high esteem a cake donut, chocolate with chocolate frosting, but to now learn that they can come with mini chocolate chips takes my longing to a new level!!

Case wharncliffe mini trapper.

Admirable mini trapper, Dean!

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Thank you~ a little minuscus repair...Doc says it could be age related, but I think it’s due to being a hard working man of action. Yeah! That’s it.
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Best wishes for a successful procedure and a fast rehab, Jeff. I had that done to my left knee over 8 years ago on the Friday before Labor Day, and I was teaching classes, pain- and crutch-free, on Tuesday. (Took about 8 weeks to get back to playing basketball, though.)

A new-to-me US Schrade Uncle Henry UH897 . Bought it on the cheap because there was some rust on the blades and springs. (Yuppers, "stainless" does rust." A little 400 grit sandpaper and some WD40 followed by mineral oil took care of the rust. To my eye, the factory edge was still on the blades when I got it. It isn't now.
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Congrats, Frank! To me, that's a quintessential stockman: great size, round bolsters, low-riding sheepsfoot, slender clip, nearly-sunk joints (and staglon is just icing on the cake).

For Sunday:
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Ooo-La-La, Vince; quite a savoir pair!

- GT

 

[5K Qs]

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Hey did you know that squirrels are more likely to plant nuts and acorns in cleared or mowed areas than in high grass or unmowed meadows? That’s because field mice and meadow voles don’t live in cleared or mowed areas~no cover from predators. They live in high grass and unmowed areas, so squirrels know they will find and steal the nuts the squirrels have buried for winter eating.

Thanks for the informative nature lore, Jeff. Are you any relation to Marlin Perkins? As I read your post, I suddenly thought of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

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Afternoon folks, late getting started here, thanks to a lengthy Windows 10 update Hope everyone is having a great weekend, and that you have a wonderful Sunday

Stunning duo, Jack!

Nice to see Man Jack again. It's looking rather stately.

Expect to see a lot of my Hartshead this week...

Thanks, John.
How are you liking the one lambsfoot per week approach?

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Thanks Gary. I've been forcing myself to carry it so a slight patina is developing too.

Personally, I don't think I'd need much arm-twisting to carry that amber stag!

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5K Qs - Hi GT. That curly leather lanyard on your 72 is so cool.
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Thanks, Harvey. I had to try to recreate braiding skills I learned 60 years ago in the Calvinist Cadet Corps (a church-affiliated boy scout type organization).

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That's fascinating Gary, I have heard folks refer to cob nuts before, but not filberts, what a nice name Several old patterns have a nutcracker for hazelnuts

That's some good-looking stag my friend
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Thanks again my friend, that #72 is a peach

I'd have never spotted the nut-cracker on that knife if you hadn't alerted me, Jack; very cool! I wonder if I know the hazelnuts as filberts (apparently a common name in Europe) because I basically grew up in a Dutch immigrant community as a second generation American?
Thanks for the positive reviews of the knives I posted.

Mais, oui, certainement, mon ami!

Lovely Laguiole, Harvey!

Love that 72 micarta lock back @ 5K Qs.

Saturday & Sunday carries both included 29 stockyard whittlers. 1st paired with a S&M rosewood jack and for today paired with a Klaas large pen in some kinda black wood.View attachment 1238400View attachment 1238401

Very nice #72, GT.
I hope GEC does a run of them soon. It's a pattern that I really want.

Thanks, sunknife & John. The 72 is a great knife, but I'd probably like a 73 even better because I prefer slip joints over lockbacks.
That Klaas is a classy knife!

These two today

That Case EO copperhead is irresistible, Steve!!

Thank you, Gary. Your stag knives are gorgeous! How big is that Big Joker?

Thank you for your kind comments, GT. That a very nice looking Mini Copperlock with some deep red bone.

Thanks, Dean. The Joker I posted is 4" closed (many of the other Jokers I have are 3 1/8 or 3 1/4). I think that mini copperlock is the walnut Rogers jigged bone that Case released few years ago; IIRC, you have at least a medium stockman from that series, don't you?
Perfect Pioneer!

Thanks for all of the kind words, GT. I like the look of that Blue Grass Barlow; I don't think that I've seen it before.
- Stuart

Thanks, Stuart. My Barlows are relegated to my "Miscellaneous Knife" category, along with many other patterns, so the few Barlows I have don't show up very frequently. The Blue Grass Barlow is a mystery knife to me, because I'm not exactly sure how I got it. It lived in my window repair bucket for a couple of decades, at least, and I suspect it might have come to me with my wife's "stuff" when we got married (and so it probably once belonged to my father-in-law who lives in Indianapolis, which isn't too far from Belknap Hdw in Louisville).

I did, Gary. I wanted to remove the fat flares on the sides. I also had to reshape the blade due to an unfortunate tip down drop onto concrete years ago. I bought that in the late ‘70s for backpacking a section of the Appachian Trail. Opinels were sort of the backpacker’s must-have due to their light weight.

Thanks for the info, Jeff.

View attachment 1238478 Please forgive me for more shots of one of today’s totes! After sitting down having finished my musical contribution to today’s service (7 songs~1 hour plus), I spent the next hour stealthily fondling my Case split back whittler. I had looked long and often for one of these, always passing due to the prices. I think I was able to afford this one because it was covered by rust. Luckily, under the ugly were full, unsharpened blades. Something about this pattern, maybe it’s the solid fatness, and the thicker bone, makes it perfect.View attachment 1238479View attachment 1238480

Nice whittler, Jeff! Did you play any songs based on Psalm 61? One of my favorites at church is a simple little song whose lyrics are essentially the first 3? verses of that Psalm (I think from New KJV).

Thanks Gary, I really like stag, but for the canoe maybe start with Rough Rider Ram's Horn.

I really like my RR Ram's horn canoe, José, but you should be aware that it's actually ram's horn BONE, bone dyed and jigged to look like ram's horn. Marbles makes a canoe with real ram's horn covers that I like a little more than the RR version.

- GT

 

[Peregrin]

A sunny day in Syracuse! We rejoice!

 

[JohnDF]

Simply stunning with that single spear and the sable/silver sides!

Thank you, GT.

How are you liking the one lambsfoot per week approach?

I'm liking it a lot.
But, I may take the Hartshead out of rotation. It's not really my favorite and I'd like to preserve it.

 

[strokednbored]

Gimmie a T for Texas... and a TC for Tuesday

 

[Jack Black]

I hope you enjoy your Imperial stockman, Jack. I have a sowbelly, a big and a small canoe, and a sodbuster pattern from Taylor-Imperial, and they were all so inexpensive that I keep waiting for them to disintegrate. But nothing of the sort so far.
The AC is such an attractive knife that I hope your girlfriend doesn't feel "threatened" by its presence.

Thanks Gary, I must have bought at least a dozen of those Taylor-Imperial Sodbusters, and given them away. I think they punch well above their weight

I hope I never have to choose between them!

Stunning duo, Jack!

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I'd have never spotted the nut-cracker on that knife if you hadn't alerted me, Jack; very cool! I wonder if I know the hazelnuts as filberts (apparently a common name in Europe) because I basically grew up in a Dutch immigrant community as a second generation American?
Thanks for the positive reviews of the knives I posted.

Thanks pal I don't know Gary, it's very interesting

A sunny day in Syracuse! We rejoice!

Plenty to rejoice about there Gary

 

[T. Erdelyi]

A sunny day in Syracuse! We rejoice!

Nobody does D2 like Dozier Gary, I love his grinds and his HT. I carried an Arkansas Toothpick for a work knife for a buncha years while workin’ at the county courthouse. I’ll have to dig it up and see if I still think it’s still as useful.