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Your most loved traditional?
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black mamba
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Not a pass down, but my original scout knife from the 60s, and still used every week.
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Not a pass down, but my original scout knife from the 60s, and still used every week.
very nice! what caused the lines on the blade patina?
black mamba
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I used it to cut/scrape the old grips off some golf clubs- the chrome plated shafts left the lines.
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After running across a knife which had performance that impressed me a lot back in my early pre law enforcement career days working building bridges, I tried what seemed like a lifetime to buy one. They were no longer being made and were pretty rare back then. Finally, after over 20 years I was able to buy one. Even that proved difficult because it was a dealer that had the knife and I only saw her every 3 months when the gun show came around. I knew her from when I worked the show myself.
She agreed to sell me a knife from her deceased husbands personal collection and bring it back to the next gun show 3 months later. She actually remembered, dug it out of her husbands personal collection and brought it back to the next show for me. She also gave it to me at dealer rates.
It was the Gerber Sportsman 2 "V" steel. It was one of the first "sprint", or "boutique steel" models I'd seen and it was dated to somewhere around 1984 or so. Of course 440C steel was the premium stainless of the day and gerber also used M2, Vascowear ( "V" steel), and L6. That Vascowear back when I first tried it on a friends knife really showed me the difference between steels I was used to. I knew "carbon " and stainless's like 440A and 440C. Then I tried the Vascowear and L6 followed by M2 and that was how I initially became the "steel junky" I now am.
Those Gerber Sportsman 2 "V" steel knives now show up on E bay fairly regularly but before E bay and even the internet days they were darn near impossible to track down. Mine took me over 20 years to finally own. I have better knives as far as usefulness, more exotic steels, and higher quality knives now but I will still never even contemplate getting rid of that knife that took half a lifetime to track down.
Sorry, no pictures. I don't currently own a camera.
Joe
She agreed to sell me a knife from her deceased husbands personal collection and bring it back to the next gun show 3 months later. She actually remembered, dug it out of her husbands personal collection and brought it back to the next show for me. She also gave it to me at dealer rates.
It was the Gerber Sportsman 2 "V" steel. It was one of the first "sprint", or "boutique steel" models I'd seen and it was dated to somewhere around 1984 or so. Of course 440C steel was the premium stainless of the day and gerber also used M2, Vascowear ( "V" steel), and L6. That Vascowear back when I first tried it on a friends knife really showed me the difference between steels I was used to. I knew "carbon " and stainless's like 440A and 440C. Then I tried the Vascowear and L6 followed by M2 and that was how I initially became the "steel junky" I now am.
Those Gerber Sportsman 2 "V" steel knives now show up on E bay fairly regularly but before E bay and even the internet days they were darn near impossible to track down. Mine took me over 20 years to finally own. I have better knives as far as usefulness, more exotic steels, and higher quality knives now but I will still never even contemplate getting rid of that knife that took half a lifetime to track down.
Sorry, no pictures. I don't currently own a camera.
Joe
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My most loved traditional is a toss up between two knives. The first is a knife gifted to me last Christmas by a woman who loves me very much. I'm a lucky man to have her in my life and to want me to have such a pretty little gentleman's knife. I love this little #22.
The other knife I love is a Sodbuster Jr my father carried for years and the one that makes me think of him.
The other knife I love is a Sodbuster Jr my father carried for years and the one that makes me think of him.
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Dad's knife made many miles on the Rock Island, he carried it everyday for many years.
Backside scale is broken off but he signed it, filled in the scale with epoxy and continued to carry it everyday.
Backside scale is broken off but he signed it, filled in the scale with epoxy and continued to carry it everyday.
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You can't put a price on a knife like that.Dad's knife made many miles on the Rock Island, he carried it everyday for many years.
Backside scale is broken off but he signed it, filled in the scale with epoxy and continued to carry it everyday.
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The "ugly" ones don't get posted up much unless they've been reworked a bit and the rustic appearance is intended to be part of the charm. I was offline for a while do to poor health and things have changed a bit. There seems to be a very large and increasing interest in knives as pocket jewelry. That change is also noticable in vintage knife collecting. I posted my "ugly" regular use knife in the "what are you carrying today" thread and didn't get a single response. LOL! 
Well here's one of my "ugly" ones. 
Well here's one of my "ugly" ones. 
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Dad's knife made many miles on the Rock Island, he carried it everyday for many years.
Backside scale is broken off but he signed it, filled in the scale with epoxy and continued to carry it everyday.
A real treasure to have one from your father! Is that a 6332? That's one of my favorites.
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This was my first knife my Grandfather gave me when I was 10. It don't look like much now but it is in Glennbad's talented hands now and I can't wait to see what he does to it.
ah i have something going to Glenn too, seen a lot of his work on here. he'll breathe life into it yet!
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The "ugly" ones don't get posted up much unless they've been reworked a bit and the rustic appearance is intended to be part of the charm. I was offline for a while do to poor health and things have changed a bit. There seems to be a very large and increasing interest in knives as pocket jewelry. That change is also noticable in vintage knife collecting. I posted my "ugly" regular use knife in the "what are you carrying today" thread and didn't get a single response. LOL!
thats the point here! i want to see the most sharpened traditional peoples got. used, sharpened down to slivers!
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Well... most loved is the same as most carried. To me it is my GEC #66 Serpentine Jack. My first GEC knife and my most carried knife of all the ones I own(ed) until now. It has a perfect size and a slighty curved shape. In combination with two blades and some wonderful jigged bone.
It is not the oldest, but definitely the one I love the most. Even the bone almost got worn out much more than it was when I recieved it.
Maybe the knife I gonna give to my son, one day ... when time has come ...
It is not the oldest, but definitely the one I love the most. Even the bone almost got worn out much more than it was when I recieved it.
Maybe the knife I gonna give to my son, one day ... when time has come ...
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I look forward to seeing it. I also have a project that I'm hoping Glenn will pick up. I have the knife picked and mods figured out (blade removal and rehaft) but I still have to find a nice piece of sambar stag that will fit well on the knife.
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Nice knife, Andi! The 66 is another one of my frequent users.
Here's a recent photo...
And here's a photo that I took years ago when the knife was new...
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I try not to "love" inanimate objects, but this one is my most treasured. Received as a Father's Day present a few years back.
You can't help but to treasure a father's day present... unless it's socks.
That's a nice one!
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I didn't put the miles on this myself but somebody sure did. An old Wostenholm that I picked up at a flea market several years ago.
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You can't help but to treasure a father's day present... unless it's socks.
Thanks Jake. Unlike many here I never received a knife from my father. He hated them. But I was floored when I received this one from my little girl. It's not quite the same as an heirloom knife, passed down through the generations, but it'll do.
