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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.
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What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?
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So, I’ve used many versions of trackers/WSK knives, and they all too often are too heavy, thickly ground, poorly balanced... this is 3/16ths tapered tang, differentially heat treated, and very well ground—the front optimized for chopping and splitting akin to a tomahawk, and the part that is closer to the handle is for carving and finer work. The hook/quarter round makes excellent curls for bird’s nests, and can “unzip” flesh if you hold it at the spine. Despite being optimized for chopping and splitting up front, I’ve cut and peeled melons with that part of the blade without issue. Between this and a trapper or my SAK field master, I have nearly all woods tasks covered.
I think it looks pretty cool to
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Nice recover. I suspect it looked something like this?View attachment 1539263All these Crown Liftin Beer Scouts are just copycats.I finally finished this one up last night and figured I might as well carry it today. I’m putting the opener to use right now.
Almost made me switch up and grab a Stockman.
Happy Saturday~ same two, but I thought I would give my trusty old original Tool the weekend off, and use his upstart sibling the Skeletool CX instead. And the last photo explains why guitars and knives/tools with pocket clips do not mix. Unless you are trying to accelerate the relicing/aging process...View attachment 1539267View attachment 1539272
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Appealing pair, Jack (if they're your real carry and not some April Fool prank)!
Beautiful knife, José!Today with this Portuguese of Francisco Cangueiro, in bovine horn.
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I especially like the rings at the end of the handle.Perhaps I exaggerated to some degree, but it WAS something I posted on April 1.Really?!
Fun seasonal bat knife!Opening Day is on Thrifty Thursday - this Colonial seems appropriate.
(and Vic Cadet)
Todd, if you DO lose your mind, at least you'll know where to look for it, since it seems to be one of those "one-track minds"!Headwinds, I went back and reread my reply to your “opening day” post, and I could probably get away without admitting this but I thought you were talking about opening day of trout season!
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looking back at your picture, I have no idea how I could’ve mistaken it for some type of fish knife!
Cool fish scrimshaw Barlow! Well-deserved rest for the stunning TC, and the substitute for the day immediately doubles your number of available blades!Giving the Barlow the day off today...
Splendid wood pair, José!
Sensational Churchill!!
I've never seen/handled one in person, but those Presidentials sure look like highly desirable knives to me!It's funny that @JB in LV just posted about enjoying a Presidential as I am toting one today along with my CV Case stockman. Hopefully no one pulls too many pranks on you all today!
Hail to the Chief! And certainly looking none the worse for wear!!nearly daily carry since I received it...
It's Hammertime!Going thrifty today with these two Imperial/Hammer Brands from the thirties.
That pair is 2 Legit 2 Quit, JJ! Always a good day when a person can carry a knife that's older than he is, Dean!
Unfortunately, no. Crabs ain't kosher.
Thanks Gary. Hurt my pride worse than my finger. Little reminder not to get careless and do stupid things
That's the spirit, Jeff!Thanks, Gary! I appreciate delrin for what it is, which is fortunate, because I have a bunch of knives in delrin.
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Admirable knives, and your post is a great tribute to your Dad!These two for the 1st.
They were my Dads. The peanut I got him for Christmas around 2007. He never carried it, too afraid to lose it, I'm sure.
The Sabre Jack I'm told I also bought him some 30 to 32 years ago... I don't remember. He loved it, as long as I can remember it was on the kitchen table, pen blade open, used for anything.
His birthday was April 1st. Would have been 91 this year. Hes been gone 10 years this December. Doesn't seem that long, yet a lot longer too. I miss him.
Carried the peanut around the house today, and for the first time in years the Jack left the house, carried it for chores on the property. Normally I keep it as he did, pen blade open on the kitchen table.
I hope that rumor about Vince is true, Jack!...
Thanks buddy, I understand Vince will be back soon
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It's a Boker Plus Atlas Gary
Thank you my friend, maybe I should have waved the cleaver around more!
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Good Friday is a holiday here, but with the country still in a form of 'lockdown', travel restricted, and the pubs closed, it's not much of a holidayStill, I dare say, I can find a pal or two to drink some beer with me in my garden, weather permitting
Thanks for the additional info on your copper Boker Atlas.
Maybe your new walking staff should have a slot to hold your cleaver so you can wave it menacingly!
I hope your weekend is going well, Jack.
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We're going to a church sponsored Easter festival on the Neuse River in downtown New Bern in a bit, warming up nicely into a beautiful spring day. This Schrade based jackknife ought to do nicely. Happy Easter folks. OH
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I also have to comment on that most excellent mask.
Thanks guys, my daughter made a bunch for me that I would actually wear.
If we have to wear a mask, where it in style, great mask!
You took the words out of my mouth!!
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Enjoy your time in the country.Blindingly brilliant sunshine today and a load of mud underfoot from the meltwater. Time to go to the country-house for the first time in months. Hope the car doesn't get stuck in the mud
I'm going with a big Stockman today, as well. After last month's big freeze, then damaging hail last week, I was determined to finally start planting the garden today. Now it's raining and making a muddy mess out there. Oh well, I'll still carry these, while I stay inside. It might be a good day for some scrimshandry.
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Always a good day when a person can carry a knife that's older than he is, Dean!
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Sure is Gary!
It was also made before my parents were born, barely.
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Similar to my Junior High, ("Middle School" hadn't been invented yet back then) High School, and college carry, 1968 to 1975.
Sadly the originals I carried back then are long gone.
Standard production Buck 110. (420HC today, 440C back then)
"Demo Knife" (440A then and now)
Large yellow stockman (1095 back then. This one is "T10".)
and (usually) a blue Parker ballpoint pen.
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Gonna see how long I can carry this combo. Back then I didn't have more knives than the number of January and July days combined to choose from ... "Life" was so much simpler then ....
Sadly the originals I carried back then are long gone.
Standard production Buck 110. (420HC today, 440C back then)
"Demo Knife" (440A then and now)
Large yellow stockman (1095 back then. This one is "T10".)
and (usually) a blue Parker ballpoint pen.
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Gonna see how long I can carry this combo. Back then I didn't have more knives than the number of January and July days combined to choose from ... "Life" was so much simpler then ....
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what do we have here? Looks almost like a re-ground and re-outfitted Izula. I like it!
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And certainly looking none the worse for wear!!
thanks, Gary. Let’s see how long I can hold on to it—my son used it to make feathers in his trial and error attempts at bushcrafting, and liked it very much.
