Your newest addition:traditionals of course!

[Ironbut]

My newest addition is this 3.25" Queen found at an antique mall I visited yesterday. At least 62 years old with great action and plenty of life left in it. Stainless steel blades with the main having been grinder abused but still serviceable and the secondary in good condition. Jigged bone with no chips or cracks. For only $6 I couldn't leave it behind.

1949-1958 Queen Jack

I saw a few knives that I liked but a glass display case was the only other item I brought home. I'll have to get some pics and show it here sometime soon.

Nice find. I'm always on the lookout for classic traditionals at flea markets & antique places, and occasionally I'll find one. Most have had almost all the blades ground away on bench grinders.

 

[d.r.h.]

Been a while since a new knife arrived that got my juices flowing! A special seahorse arrived today. It is one of a set of 20 (2019) natural bone Case seahorse whittlers that Linda Karst Stone scrimshawed with a "sea life" scene this year. Mine is number 6 in the set. Beautiful work and just perfect for the "seahorse" whittler!

 

[redsparrow]

Nice find. I'm always on the lookout for classic traditionals at flea markets & antique places, and occasionally I'll find one. Most have had almost all the blades ground away on bench grinders.

When I was in grade school my peers were taught by their Dads to sharpen pocket knives on bench grinders. Presumably the same grinders that sharpened their lawnmower blades. Guess that's what they knew.
Regular pocket knife carry started for me around age 8 but I never even saw a sharpening stone until I was about 16. Once a friend allowed me to use his bench grinder. My knife got sharp but I noticed it took a lot of metal and that just didn't seem right. So instead of using a grinder to sharpen my knives, when they got dull I bought a new one. These days when I find knife remnants left over from those hopefully gone forever bench grinding days I occasionally attempt a rescue.

 

[Getting older]

Yesterday was our 2 year anniversary,wide surprised me with a Case cv large ole yellow stockman,what a wife!

 

[Just Tom.]

When I was in grade school my peers were taught by their Dads to sharpen pocket knives on bench grinders. Presumably the same grinders that sharpened their lawnmower blades. Guess that's what they knew.
Regular pocket knife carry started for me around age 8 but I never even saw a sharpening stone until I was about 16. Once a friend allowed me to use his bench grinder. My knife got sharp but I noticed it took a lot of metal and that just didn't seem right. So instead of using a grinder to sharpen my knives, when they got dull I bought a new one. These days when I find knife remnants left over from those hopefully gone forever bench grinding days I occasionally attempt a rescue.

My dad and my friends’ dads all had proper sharpening stones in the 1970’s, which we used as kids (improperly, I’m sure), but my dad still recounts with horror that the guy from our local hardware store used to sharpen his pocket knives with a file.

 

[black mamba]

I guess he liked a "toothy" edge!

 

[wildmike]

Guess I grew up weird!
I've been using sharpening stones since I was 6.
I was told never to touch a knife to a grinder.
That was over 55 years ago, and a lot of knives ago.

 

[Modoc ED]

Back when I was a kid - 1940s/1950s most of the guys I knew sharpened their hatchets and axes with a file and also touched up their knives edges with the same file. However, serious sharpening was done on a stone.

 

[StubbyThumbnail]

Just came in the mail today. Purchased from the exchange (Thanks TinyDog). I really like the Unicorn Ivory. My wife looked at it and I told her what it was. She said "you know there is no such thing". Then I said I have proof. I think this one will become a gentle user carried in a slip on occasion. Have a great day all!

 

[hornetguy]

Just came in the mail today. Purchased from the exchange (Thanks TinyDog). I really like the Unicorn Ivory. My wife looked at it and I told her what it was. She said "you know there is no such thing". Then I said I have proof. I think this one will become a gentle user carried in a slip on occasion. Have a great day all!

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be careful.... you may find, like I have, that the unicorn is my most frequently carried knife. I might have other knives with me, but I have the unicorn with me perhaps 70% of the time. I knocked the shine off mine with 600 grit wet/dry and oil, to get rid of black specs of polishing compound, and it looks MUCH more like ivory now. I think it drastically improved the appearance of the knife.

 

[sbh06]

Well, the 44 I ordered from DLT came in today. Thanks to D Dschal and hornetguy for providing their experience with theirs before it showed up. I think I am going to like this one a lot.

 

[jassec]

My Case swayback gent. Amber bone, CV wharncliffe.

 

[hornetguy]

My Case swayback gent. Amber bone, CV wharncliffe.

What happened to the pics?
Case does a great job with the swaybacks. I have three of the jacks, and one gent. Very good knife for the watch pocket.... this is my gent after harvesting some rosemary for the Thanksgiving turkey last fall.... and for comparison, the crimson bone and the blue bone jacks.

 

[Dschal]

Well, the 44 I ordered from DLT came in today. Thanks to D Dschal and hornetguy for providing their experience with theirs before it showed up. I think I am going to like this one a lot.

I'm glad you like it sbh06 . Looks great to me.

 

[Old Hunter]

When I was in grade school my peers were taught by their Dads to sharpen pocket knives on bench grinders. Presumably the same grinders that sharpened their lawnmower blades. Guess that's what they knew.
Regular pocket knife carry started for me around age 8 but I never even saw a sharpening stone until I was about 16. Once a friend allowed me to use his bench grinder. My knife got sharp but I noticed it took a lot of metal and that just didn't seem right. So instead of using a grinder to sharpen my knives, when they got dull I bought a new one. These days when I find knife remnants left over from those hopefully gone forever bench grinding days I occasionally attempt a rescue.

From about age 8 on until I was in my late teens I hung with my Granddad whenever I could. He was an electrical contractor, but his business had shrunk by the time I was 14 or so to just him. I helped as gopher and under the house wire puller and up in the attic wire puller, etc. He bought himself and me the Klein wire skinners - he could skin ROMEX cable by holding the knife and wire in one hand just pulling - I could never do that without cutting myself. Pop used a bench grinder in his old, dark and dank warehouse to sharpen our knives - it would look like Fourth of July fireworks with all the sparks flying in the dim light - I can still smell the metal scent in the air. Those blades went away quickly. Lucky for me I learned to use a stone in the Boy Scouts and have always sharpened my knives that way. Good Memories you conjured up Red Sparrow! OH

 

[jassec]

What happened to the pics?
Case does a great job with the swaybacks. I have three of the jacks, and one gent. Very good knife for the watch pocket.... this is my gent after harvesting some rosemary for the Thanksgiving turkey last fall.... and for comparison, the crimson bone and the blue bone jacks.

I am not so good with posting pics yet, but I will get it. I really like the swaybacks. They are a perfect pocket knife. You have a nice little collection by the way.

 

[hornetguy]

I am not so good with posting pics yet, but I will get it. I really like the swaybacks. They are a perfect pocket knife. You have a nice little collection by the way.

If you have any questions about how to post the pics, just ask. There may even be an old thread on it, for all I know. There are LOTS of folks on here that can explain it and have you up and posting in no time. It took me a few tries to get it figured out, too.

 

[SteveC]

Challenge Cutlery Barehead jack

 

[jassec]

If you have any questions about how to post the pics, just ask. There may even be an old thread on it, for all I know. There are LOTS of folks on here that can explain it and have you up and posting in no time. It took me a few tries to get it figured out, too.

Thank you! I have had some help. Unfortunately my phone doesn't follow the directions I have recieved. I will keep trying though.

 

[Prester John]

Thank you! I have had some help. Unfortunately my phone doesn't follow the directions I have recieved. I will keep trying though.

If you have a smartphone, you can download the Imgur app for free. Allow it to access your phone camera photos. Using the app, you upload photos (use "hidden" rather than "public"; otherwise everyone that goes to Imgur can see your photos, and some people don't understand pics of knives!). When you are ready to post, touch the photo in the app for a second or two and a box will pop up. Click on "Copy Post Link". Then go to BladeForums and click on the landscape icon (between the smily face and the film icon). A box will appear. Touch the black box with the blinking cursor and a box will pop up. Select "paste". Then "Insert" and the picture will appear. Then click "Post Reply" to post on the forum.
I would have sent you this as a private message, but you cannot receive them unless you are a paying member.
Hope this helps. It's really easy once you learn it. Just takes a few seconds for me to take a pic and post it.