What Traditional Knife to ring in the New Year?

Halfneck

Halfneck

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So what traditional knife will be in your pocket for the New Year?

I will be carrying my new GEC French Kate.

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It will be a cool little conversation starter among my friends PLUS it works as a bottle opener. :D

Family & I will be doing our usual thing and staying at a good friends house. Good company, good food, and good drink.
 
For New Year's Eve, I'm going to carry this year's forum knife, and the Anniversary TC Barlow Charlie recently sent me, and I may just slip the Maserin Filiscjna I received for Xmas into my watch pocket too ;)





 
In anticipation of a big year, I'll be ringing it in with a big knife:

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But I'll have this wee 'lil #53 in the pocket as well. :D

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I'm finishing this year on a dance floor if I have my way, so I'm not sure if I will want to have one on me. But if I do, this little old fella has been decent luck for me in a bad luck year, and I don't like acrylic/cell/whatever covers, but am starting to be swayed, just takes a 100 year old knife to do so!!

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And for the life of me I can't remember who made it, but do remember LG3 says it dates from 1916-1919!

Edited to add: Crown Cutlery New York.
 
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I have the very same knife, Bob. They are nice, indeed. I like everything about

Tomorrow, knife? Plenty! It will be a busy day. In the morning, I gonna go traditionally shooting at the fire range and the #99 Wall Street will be with me. In afternoon, after a lunch and coffee + pie I gonna make a walk through the woods with wife and son. So a fixed blade, Brukskniv in special will come in handy. :D
In the evening we gonna stay at home. An 11-month old boy should go to bed early. For dinner we gonna have a steak which riped three weeks in vaccum :D a nice stag folder will be the right knife for the evening - pics come later (as usual).
 
CUTS LIKE A KRIS said:
I'm finishing this year on a dance floor if I have my way, so I'm not sure if I will want to have one on me. But if I do, this little old fella has been decent luck for me in a bad luck year...
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Hope you get your wish my friend, that's a pretty good way to end any year in my books :) Hope you have a better 2015 Kris, and try and find a vest pocket for that nice-looking knife ;)

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The one in the front will continue to live in my pocket.


And if this one comes back fro repair nice and smooth it will find it's way in there too. I really like Case's CV. I wish GEC would make some in that steel.
 
I will have my Blackwood TC Barlow, it's been a constant companion since I received it. I will probably also slip a a special occasion knife in another pocket. I think the special occasion knife will be my Wostenholm Senator with Stag covers. What better way to bring in a new year than to have one knife that is a treasure because of the generosity received and one that's around 100 years old.

Chris
 
navihawk said:
I really like Case's CV. I wish GEC would make some in that steel
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I believe Case has their CV steel custom made. (I know that KaBar has 1095 CroVan custom made.) You can do that if you buy an entire heat (batch) of steel. Case and KaBar make enough knives that they can buy an entire heat. GEC does not make enough knives to do that.

However, CV is reasonably close to O1 in composition. GEC has made some knives in O1. Perhaps we could hope for more.

And I agree in that I prefer alloy steel to plain 1000 series carbon steel.
 
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One of my two Christmas presents. Probably give the edge to the Schatt & Morgan, since I haven't given it a carry yet.
 
in this neighborhood ... a Uncle Henry LB7 on the belt, and maybe my Cold Steel G.I. Tanto and/or Cold Steel Heavy Machete, also on the belt. In the pocket, a Cold Steel Kudu or Eland. Can you tell I am not in the world's greatest neighborhood?
 
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A Case damascus/ barn wood sod buster teamed up with this one, if it gets here in time.:)
 
I'm with you, Halfneck, my red stag French Kate will get the nod on New Year's Eve and Day (bowl games deserve a couple beers, too!).

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knarfeng said:
I believe Case has their CV steel custom made. (I know that KaBar has 1095 CroVan custom made.) You can do that if you buy an entire heat (batch) of steel. Case and KaBar make enough knives that they can buy an entire heat. GEC does not make enough knives to do that.

However, CV is reasonably close to O1 in composition. GEC has made some knives in O1. Perhaps we could hope for more.

And I agree in that I prefer alloy steel to plain 1000 series carbon steel.
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Thanks Frank. Isn't D2 similar to o1 also? Maybe with a little more chromium?
 
Steve, D2 is a much more heavily alloyed tool steel than either CV or O1. 0170-6C has been identified as Case's CV, and even if it isn't exactly, it's very close.

This comparo is from AG Russell's website.

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