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.
I've found garage sales to be hit-and-miss, thrift stores, neighbors' backyards, and farm sales proved to be the most bountiful spots for me. Anyways, here are my (former) work sites. All the mess around the wooden bench is long gone, fyi.
These image links probably won't last long...
It's not fancy at all, but it will do what I wanted.
Rick "look while they last" Denney
Yup. I wonder how many passed it by because it didn’t look right.
It’s an interesting little vise. I found the same vise with the a Columbian brand and the same No. 178 cast into it. Brink and Cotton was absorbed into the Columbian/Warren conglomerate before the latter was acquired by Wilton. I see that same casting (probably a secondary casting pattern made from an example product) with the Wilton brand, made in Asia.
Thanks! There’s a bit of a funny story involving my getting it. I was making a new address sign and I was using Cedar for longevity. When it came time to make the sign board, I decided to cut a chunk out of a huge blow-down cedar at our creek and make the boards out of that. My dad cut out a nice sized chunk but when we went to move it, it was to heavy to carry out and the terrain was too rough to get a tractor back there, so my dad halved the round. The wood was thoroughly soaked at the time so each half was about 120-150lbs. Me and my dad had just finished carrying one half to our skidsteer when my older brother walked up and asked what we were doing. We said we were resting before we grabbed the other half. He looked at it and said that he’d get it solo. Me and Dad quietly laughed and told him to knock himself out. I helped him get it on his back and he made it about 15 steps before he looked like he was gonna drop, but he carried it 100 feet across the canyon, walking on wet clay and jumping (hopping?) the creek at the bottom of the canyon. Once he dropped the piece on the skidsteer, for what may have been the only time in his life, he looked at me and Dad and said, “You guys were right, that thing was way too heavy to carry solo.” One of the halves rests at the end of our driveway and the other is that bench. It still makes me laugh when I think about it.
See above! Will add some more later.
