Wooden Wednesday - Traditionals only please

Beautiful knives all around! I'm starting to appreciate these a lot more. Funny considering that I always looked at them as "Grandpa Knives". I'm starting to get it, though. Grandpa knew what made a good knife. It wasn't the fanciest new lock or the newest super steel - These old knives with their beautifully rounded edges and fantastic materials feel better in the hand, slice better with their thinner blades, and look better in use. If not for this forum, I'd probably never have figured that out either.

I have Cocobolo on the mind, now.
 
IMightBeWrong said:
Beautiful knives all around! I'm starting to appreciate these a lot more. Funny considering that I always looked at them as "Grandpa Knives". I'm starting to get it, though. Grandpa knew what made a good knife. It wasn't the fanciest new lock or the newest super steel - These old knives with their beautifully rounded edges and fantastic materials feel better in the hand, slice better with their thinner blades, and look better in use. If not for this forum, I'd probably never have figured that out either.

I have Cocobolo on the mind, now.
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IMightBeWrong said:
I have Cocobolo on the mind, now.
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Cocobolo can be very beautiful indeed! This one arrived yesterday, brother to our Forum knife!!

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2Dead said:
Just for you guys... ;)
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Oh yeah, very nice Trand! I really love the figuring in your #11 utility, and the #51 jack has become a frequent EDC for me.

ETA: Didn't GEC make some models in curly/birds' eye maple? I thought I saw a #53 or #54 with maple covers.

I'm also surprised there hasn't been any wormy chestnut from CSC yet(!)
 
Thanks. All the eyes on my #51 are on the pile side...
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I don't remember GEC using BEM unless it was a short run. They did use Curly Maple though.
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GEC's Wormy Chestnut although the CSC doesn't market it as wormy.
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waynorth said:
Cocobolo can be very beautiful indeed! This one arrived yesterday, brother to our Forum knife!!
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Wow, is that a looker! In fact, turned the other way, it would appear that something is looking at you, albeit with something "interesting" going on in the nose area...

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How's the rat-tail practice coming along? ;)


~ P.
 
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An old school sodbuster with some nice grain, and a Ben Wade with strait flame grain bowl.
 
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I've never been all that tempted to buy wood. I'm mostly a bone person. But I have been tempted many times by that GEC Snakewood. That really catches my eyes.
 
Those are all just great eye candy! Well if everything works out right I'll have my already modified #7 ready for the Wed. Woody thread. The stain is darker then I thought it would be so one more coat should do:foot:. It went better then I thought it would!
 
jackknife said:
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Nice Ben Wade. I've got one as well (well, the precursor to Ben Wade, mine's a Preben Holm), and it's probably got the best grain of all my pipes. HUGE, too; I can fit my entire thumb into the bowl, and I've got big thumbs. :)
 
I just discovered this thread. Guess I'll have to put this Schrade Walden 832 stockman back in my pocket tomorrow (shown here with a pipe manufactured for and sold by L.L. Bean).

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How about a couple of Camillus 5" lockbacks. The top one is the early version with no pins. The bottom one came out after they bought Western (they used pins).

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Early Buck 112's handle scales were not matched. Good if you get tired of one side, just turn it over. Yes, it is the same knife.

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