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.
Those two just seem like they belong together... solid work knives with beauty.![]()
Notable pairs, Paul & Steve!
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Very cool Puukko partner with your Hartshead, for your working pair; the grip on the Marttiini looks like you'll get an excellent handle purchase, sweet!Have a great Sunday folksThese two are going to be doing some work today
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That S&M is striking, JJ!![]()
Many thanks to you, Gary!!!That pair hit the nail right on the head for this old man, JJ!![]()
Quite a hefty Euro-beauty; the grain pattern is wonderful on your beefy slicer!But some of those European knives can be tricksters!It's actually a big folder:
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Todd, the sowbelly stockman was a surprise Christmas gift in 2015 from Ron @Half/Stop , I haven't noticed a chestnut sowbelly in stock anywhere for a long time, although I haven't been actively searching; I suspect that model has been discontinued by Case.
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I think you’re right about the the chestnut sowbelly. I’ve looked around quite a bit and found nothing but old pages and “out of stock” messages. The fact that yours was a gift from Ron puts it over the top! Thanks for the kind words about my Case, it was a gift from my wife this past Christmas, which puts it over the top for me!Fascinating story and cool photo, Todd!The tortoise 86 is lovely, but that stag mini trapper is the star of the show for me!
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A pair of pleasurable pics of your two fine Old Friends, Jack!![]()
Your pair of knives certainly look capable of handling the tasks you assign them, Jack!I always say I've vowed to stay away from fixed blades, but I've certainly looked at that model from Marttiini more than once. I like the idea of collecting examples of work knives from around the world, and a Marttiini like that is probably as close as I'll come to a puukko.
Very cool Puukko partner with your Hartshead, for your working pair; the grip on the Marttiini looks like you'll get an excellent handle purchase, sweet!![]()
Well prepared.
Oops...It's actually a big folder:
Look at the little one there![]()
I'd like to be able to superimpose knife photos with "transparent backgrounds" over photos of the many neighborhoods, parks, etc. through which I wander on my daily walks
That is a super cool knife!I like that a lot!
Nice Kamp King, Tony!I bought one at an antique shop exactly a year ago, as a possible "stand-in" for my very first knife, a Colonial Forest-Master I got about 1960. I worried that I might lose the Forest-Master if I carried it, so I kept my eyes open for a replacement with lower sentimental value. (Turns out that I carry my Forest-Master just as much as ever, even after picking up the Kamp King.) Yesterday, I returned to the antique store for the first time in a year, but the person who rented a little display case from which I'd bought the Kamp King (and at least one other knife about 2 years ago) apparently no longer was a "tenant". I wasn't able to locate any knives at prices in which I was interested, although after walking 1.5 miles to the store and then putting on a mask when I entered, my glasses were fogged up the entire time, so that was a deal-spotting challenge!
Nice photo of a varied quintet, a veritable Whitman's Sampler of folding knives!
I can relate to that. I usually do the weekly grocery shopping at Meijer, and when I return home, I often show my wife the receipt that displays at the top how much I saved with specials, coupons, etc. I claim that those savings should be directed into my $1/day knife budget (probably tripling or quadrupling that budget), but she rarely sees it that way!
Superb black and burgundy combo, JJ!You're apparently another of the many Eureka Jack fans on The Porch.
If I had a nickel for every time I've heard THAT story from guys ...
I have to learn how to "doctor" photos like that, Dan!
(I'd like to be able to superimpose knife photos with "transparent backgrounds" over photos of the many neighborhoods, parks, etc. through which I wander on my daily walks.)
Splendid Case reb bone canoe!
Outstanding stag IMHO, Joshua!
You must be jubilant over the jigging of that Bantam Brown Bone, Gus!
Great to see the stag PDA Cranes again, John, especially with your grand pocket slip!
(The Vulcan slip you sent me hangs from a belt loop and rides in the outboard edge of my LRP every day, protecting some lucky knife each week.)
Intriguing frame shape on that big stag stockman, Jeff!
I've never seen a Douk Douk like that one; very memorable!![]()
Nice Kamp King, Tony!I bought one at an antique shop exactly a year ago, as a possible "stand-in" for my very first knife, a Colonial Forest-Master I got about 1960. I worried that I might lose the Forest-Master if I carried it, so I kept my eyes open for a replacement with lower sentimental value. (Turns out that I carry my Forest-Master just as much as ever, even after picking up the Kamp King.) Yesterday, I returned to the antique store for the first time in a year, but the person who rented a little display case from which I'd bought the Kamp King (and at least one other knife about 2 years ago) apparently no longer was a "tenant". I wasn't able to locate any knives at prices in which I was interested, although after walking 1.5 miles to the store and then putting on a mask when I entered, my glasses were fogged up the entire time, so that was a deal-spotting challenge!
Nice photo of a varied quintet, a veritable Whitman's Sampler of folding knives!
I can relate to that. I usually do the weekly grocery shopping at Meijer, and when I return home, I often show my wife the receipt that displays at the top how much I saved with specials, coupons, etc. I claim that those savings should be directed into my $1/day knife budget (probably tripling or quadrupling that budget), but she rarely sees it that way!
Superb black and burgundy combo, JJ!You're apparently another of the many Eureka Jack fans on The Porch.
If I had a nickel for every time I've heard THAT story from guys ...
I have to learn how to "doctor" photos like that, Dan!
(I'd like to be able to superimpose knife photos with "transparent backgrounds" over photos of the many neighborhoods, parks, etc. through which I wander on my daily walks.)
Splendid Case reb bone canoe!
Outstanding stag IMHO, Joshua!
You must be jubilant over the jigging of that Bantam Brown Bone, Gus!
Great to see the stag PDA Cranes again, John, especially with your grand pocket slip!
(The Vulcan slip you sent me hangs from a belt loop and rides in the outboard edge of my LRP every day, protecting some lucky knife each week.)
Intriguing frame shape on that big stag stockman, Jeff!
I've never seen a Douk Douk like that one; very memorable!
Terrific keepsake, ED, and tribute to your shipmate.
Fascinating story and cool photo, Todd!The tortoise 86 is lovely, but that stag mini trapper is the star of the show for me!
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Elegant Buck, Dean!I like the wide edge bevel; even I can feel when I've got the blade at the proper angle on the stone with a broad bevel like that.
Incredibly appealing knife, Dean!
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I like your old friend from Deutschland, Dean!
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