What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

This old Equal End

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Just got it today and just finished cleaning it up, Paul. Only one pic so far but I will get some more pics soon for you. Unfortunately, someone used the main for a pry-bar and now it is a pry-screw driver:eek:
 
Clearly :D :thumbup:

Funny how I cant get enough of looking at others pics even though I own it. Great shot Jujigatame, I can see that ones spent just a little time in your pocket :)
 
Actually I just got it earlier this week and all the use/patina is from the previous owner. I'm doing my best to give it some more character though.
 
I've just switched knives from my GEC Powderhorn to this GEC Montana Whittler (not a true whittler in the sense of collecting). It's snowing at the rate of about 1 1/2" an hour here and I'm sure I'll be putting in some tractor time later tonight. This #79 makes for a hard-use knife in conjunction with tractor work - in this case snow clearing and small limb/brush clearing.

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Nice one ED, love that ebony. The 79 sure is a great knife and was my first GEC. The red bone version I have will never leave my collection. I have to admit that I cheated on my 53 one day, couldnt resist the 79 ;) but I should have listened to you earlier on trying out the 53.


Sure it wont be hard to contribute to that patina Nate :thumbup:
 
zippofan said:
I'm curious to know your thoughts. I went to get one for my Eagle Scout son as a stocking stuffer at our local Scout shop, but they only had the imported version in stock so I passed.
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Griff,
Honestly, I have mixed feelings about it. I'm actually curious to see one of the imported variations. In some ways, it's nice: the blades are perfectly centered, the pen blade snaps open with authority (the clip blade doesn't have quite the same oopmh, though it's not totally weak), and it has good heft and feels nice in the hand. On the other hand, the Eagle emblem is not perfectly inlaid (someone looks to have gotten enthusiastic with the glue-popping it out and reinstalling it would probably fix it), the tangs were barely, if ever, ground from when the blanks were stamped, and the blades were sharpened in a manner more befitting a Cub Scout than an Eagle Scout. It appears that the mystery stainless will eventually take an edge, but I've really only gotten started. In the end, I think it will be a decent use-and-abuse EDC type knife. It would probably take forever to wear it out, and in the meantime would make a nice totem/token of having earned one's Eagle. Final verdict: I wouldn't hunt one down, but if it showed up on my doorstep, I wouldn't turn it away.

As a tangential rant, the BSA would do well to have some Eagle-branded knife choices. Even if they couldn't find an American maker, at the very least they could put the Eagle logo on a SAK, as they do with the standard emblem. I'd be in for a couple. Until then, we'll have to go with the Buck 500 option. End of rant.
Walt.
 
This one came in the mail run today, so it has been in my pocket since just after I took this picture.

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Ed J
 
Hi,

I had to go to a Funeral today. And it seems this old Camillus Slim Senator keeps getting this sad duty. It's small, and the scissors is often useful for clipping the stray thread.

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Dale
 
Late 80s Case Utility Knife 640045R, the only utility knife other than my Leatherman Supertool that gives my SAKs a run for the money.

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Humppa said:
I´m still wondering why Friedrich Hartkopf isn´t that popular outside Germany/Austria. They make great knives,imo.
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I don't know why, either. That Hartkopf is a fine looking knife. I don't know if they are even available here in the states.
 
Stich2442 said:
That is a Vic Director, it is the same as the Vic Executive, except it has stainless scales and is much thinner, no toothpick or tweezers. I lost one 25 years ago and a few months ago found a new one they are a discontinued model, but I found a distributor that has some new in stock.
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Very nice! Thanks for the info.
 
See you're early again Andi! Enjoy your Sunday, my friend, and everyone else too of course :)

 
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although i am hoping to get some new pics later today or tomorrow, the patina has changed a bit since i first got her.

i still carrying her everyday even if i am bringing a 2nd knife to play with. I regret to say my case mini-trapper (not the giveaway one, but my yellow with cv handles) is not faring well. she loosened up quite a bit where as the 85 hasnt loosened up at all...yeah working them hard on some carving/whittling tasks just to see which steel retains its edge better (Gec seems to be winning that as well, but not by a lot)
 
lambertiana said:
I don't know why, either. That Hartkopf is a fine looking knife. I don't know if they are even available here in the states.
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Well, they are made of high quality. Nothing such special like GEC, but still in great F&F and with a decent steel. I don´t know if they´re available in the states. But maybe Hartkopf ships to the US, too. If there´s interest - you should send them an email... ;)

Well, I started with my Buck 112 today (shown above) and added the Ludwig Groten, Solingen stag shadow pattern to my setup - two wonderful knives! I got this one from a friend, whos grandpa died some years age - because he thought the knives would be in good hands ;) So I fixed it up, sharpened oiled and removed rust ect ect

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Unfortunatelly those Groten knives are no longer made anymore - they might have stopped making knives in the middle of the 20th century...
 
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