Your newest addition:traditionals of course!

Kitten Party said:
Oh man, I've been lusting over that exact knife! SS for fishing and worry free heavy use, and that elk...congrats
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Thanks! it is a very special and by now valuable knife! Especially considering I had to pay an additional 19% VAT and 8.5% customs fee when it arrived in Germany ... :roll eyes:

Having said that, I totally think it's worth it!
 
Magnificent, Jack!!

Thunder rolled across Leeds. Rain fell to wash everything away.
"A new start," said the rain
" A new day, " said the wind
" A new pair of New Days," said Charlie:D
Out from Leeds walked Jack, carrying a New Day on his next journey with an invigorated new mind!
 
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I guess these would count as traditionals, just got these two Miguel Nieto folders in olive wood and AN-58 stainless and a Marttiini Lumberjack with a birch handle and carbon steel.
 
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Great grouping of beautiful knives, OMR. Good show. I like the used and slightly abused. When a blade is new and fresh I have a hard time giving it the initial business end of any task. Once it is broken in I feel invincible!
 
CROWEMAG said:
Great grouping of beautiful knives, OMR. Good show. I like the used and slightly abused. When a blade is new and fresh I have a hard time giving it the initial business end of any task. Once it is broken in I feel invincible!
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I know what you mean. i had never fully understood the term "hard use knife" until i got these, the guy i got them from lives or as they say up there "stays" in Scotland and i believe he used the knives for cleaning game so they were pretty well gunked up, now they are cleaner using them will come easy.
OMR.
 
When a new knife comes out it usually perks up interest in previous knives with the same pattern. I am not immune to this.

With the new GEC 77 Barlows & Yankee Jacks coming down the pipe, it got me looking at the knives in the drawer.
At which point I realized I had never picked up one of the Yankee Jacks with the clip blade. I had wanted one in the saw cut and those are already getting difficult to find new.

So, thinking 'now or never', I finally got it in gear and scrounged one up and ordered. Now if I could just get a crown lifter in this size...

Delivered yesterday:

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The J Russell Buffalo Skinner is a 70's model with a carbon blade and ebony handles. It's usually only seen in it's Bicentennial version with inlaid medallion. This one is plain ebony and with sheath.

The second knife is a 70's Russell Hunter. It has an ebony handle and surprisingly, a stainless blade! This was an enigma because a rep at Dexter-Russell told me all the stainless blades were on the early/mid 80's reissue knives. Perhaps a transitional model.....the diamond blade stamp is different from both the 70's and 80's knives.
 
Ryouchijtx said:
Very nice looking Eureka Jack/talon Dean, is that ebony wood?

Got in this chubby stubby guy, but a barlow nonetheless :D
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Yes, Tim, it is ebony. I like this one partly because of the color (it's black in the house), but mainly because it is so lightweight.

You scored a win with that 25; it looks like a little handful.
 
Likewise Dean, Haven't seen many a Eureka 92 with wood and yeah most wood covered knives are great lightweight edcs.
Haha it is a perfect coin pocket carry from now on~ Weighted enough to know it's still in your pocket as well.
 
I just snagged a Frank Buster Celebrated Fight'n Rooster cattle knife in smooth white bone, mid '80s vintage. Pics when it arrives.
 
Not sure if I have anything worth while here, but after getting my GEC john chapman I can't seem to stop myself.

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