What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

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EngrSorenson said:
I like that whittler- they’ve been making the “half Whittler” for so long, and I just wish they’d commit to the whole one again. Divided spring or 3 springer? What year? Beautiful specimen.



I had one similar to that- fit and finish needed lots of help, construction was crude. Good knife (9.5 out of 10 pull!) but the #93 came out shortly after so I passed mine along to a non-traditional buddy. He carries traditional knives now. The thing still snaps shut like a guillotine. I wonder what corrections you made?

Edit- I thought yours was a Wright, I was wrong! Micheal May... looks interesting. I’m all of a sudden shopping for one. What didn’t you like about yours? Maybe you can talk me out of it. Onebigbill Onebigbill , also, what scales are those? I don’t see them up there, but they are purdy.
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Dan, This knife has has a genesis. It was so poorly constructed that I sent it off to a cutler to get sorted out. The blade grind was horrendous so I had the cutler re-profile the blade. The blade was very poorly centered so the cutler fixed that too. Spring gaps were terrible and the cutler vastly improved that too. The covers are polished ram's horn. Through the sorting out process the covers got a little bruised (you might say). I would opt for something else. So now the knife h'aint half bad. The pull on the blade is a 9.5 but it is getting better the more I use it. The good news in the story is that Michael May stood by his product and refunded my money AND I got to keep the knife too. So the money spent with the cutler was about half the $$$ that the knife originally cost. I have seen some of his work that is very nice but IMHO it's hit or miss. He blamed the poor workmanship on an apprentice that worked on my knife. Another problem is that when ordering knives from abroad it takes forever to get them in hand and to ship them back to the cutler for repairs is also a long time proposition and shipping is expensive. I have an A. Wright & Son lamb foot that is very nicely made but It's the Hartshead Barlow SFO from @Jack Black and he personally checked out each knife in the production run to make sure they were up to his standards.
 
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