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Yes, it is a single blade. This one is rosewood but looks really dark in the photo. I have one in ebony as well. Last year for my "Christmas Eve Gift" giveaway, I let the smaller 2-blade ebony jack go to a new home. I still have the jigged bone version. Group shot:
Ed J
very nice!
although as a whole i prefer the clip blade to the spear point, there is something about a nice spear point on a jack that just looks so nice. Better lines or something, make them look more elegant (to me). I dunno hard to explain, but that's a beautiful collection of jacks! :thumbup:
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That image of the intrepid peanut scaling the vertical heights of the Chimay bottle without regard for its own safety brings to mind the heroes of the "Guns Of Navarone":
Come on Elliott, it was clearly a tribute to the Devils Brigade on Monte La Difensa in Italy
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Come on Elliott, it was clearly a tribute to the Devils Brigade on Monte La Difensa in Italy
Of course, what's the matter with me? On a related note, when I was traveling through Italy some years ago I couldn't stop staring at Monte Cassino and imagining all the action I had read about over the years.
(Interestingly enough, my late father in law was in the Italian army during WWII and served in Italy, Yugoslavia and Africa.)
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I have a whole collection of items and family history I started to gather up over the last few years.
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Beautiful stag Bonky! I know I am late to the #53 party but it truly is a very well thought out design.
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You lot have driven me to drink!
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Yes, it is a single blade. This one is rosewood but looks really dark in the photo. I have one in ebony as well. Last year for my "Christmas Eve Gift" giveaway, I let the smaller 2-blade ebony jack go to a new home. I still have the jigged bone version. Group shot:
Ed J
You did WHA...?
And I was WHERE, again?!
Oh, that's right-- I wasn't "here" yet.
That small two-bladed knife provokes me mightily, because it's the right combination of form factor, blade choice, and handful of ebony-- but the one (full retail, gulp) example I've been able to find so far was too gappy and snapless to warrant further consideration, and in conjunction with other reviews, has pushed me away from that specific knife.
Then I see it again, the tease.
Of my many good wishes for Queen Cutlery, my most selfish and specific is that they get that knife right.
Just so you guys don't think I sit around drinking and smoking cigars all day...I spend more time in this part of the house:
Oh right, like that's not a stock photograph and people actually live there and use that room.
Note to self: do not post pictures of basement/utility area.
~ P.
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I noticed the same thing on another of Ken's creations (also owned by Elliott if I remember correctly). He does a great job with keeping those sheepsfoot blades low to the frame, which (I would think) makes it feel much better in the hand than other stockman/cattle knives. Ken does beautiful work. I can certainly see why it is Elliott's favorite.
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Sure doesn't look like anything around here, that's for sure. Elliott, that's a nice little retreat you have there.
Ed J
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Ok, a more updated pic of my edc
A good choice, Mr.Rsmith_77! The Texas Jack kind of snuck up on me and is quickly becoming one of my favourites... :thumbup:
Mine's still pretty shiny but at least it's in my left front pocket right now...
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My paternal grandmother's younger brother was at Monte Cassino. He was a tank driver, and had quite a war (though he only rarely spoke about it after). He joined the Queen's Bays, a cavalry regiment, as a boy soldier, before WW2. When war was declared, the regiment moved to tanks. Bill was at Dunkirk, Monte Cassino, Tobruk, Al Alamein, and all over North Africa. He was blown up 3 times in tanks, surviving in part due to his small stature. I know little about these battles I'm afraid. Poor guy had a pretty gloomy life in many respects afterwards. I remember him saying that him and his fallen comrades had been promised "A land fit for heroes". When he died of cancer, having worked hard for his whole life, he left just enough money to cover the funeral expenses.
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That's a sad tale, Jack, for a man that had seen and faced so much. Unfortunately, there are all too many stories like that regardless of the nationality of the soldier involved.
Here's to him and those like him.
Here's to him and those like him.
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That's certainly true Elliott. I'm always struck by the war memorials which you come across in tiny villages (I guess the world over). In those two big wars almost an entire generation was lost in some places, poor boys that had perhaps never travelled to the nearest town or next county, yet struggled and were cut down so far from home. I've a lot of respect for those old soldiers. For the American boys, it must have taken a lot of courage and sacrifice to go and fight a war on continents far away, a war that had hitherto barely touched many of them personally. We have a lot to thank them for.
