Photos How Well Do We Know Our ABC's? (Traditional Version)

Yep! Zulu spear is about all I can come up with for z.
Ugly knife, by the way, Ron!

 

I'll join in on the Zulu spear for Z day.

 

Yep! One of the ugliest ones I own!

 

For obscure reasons, the name comes from the Zouave soldiers, created during the conquest of Algeria in 1830 (and lasted til 1962), whose heyday was in the Crimean war.(edit : maybe this comes of the Papal Zouaves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_Zouaves )
One is particularly famous because standing on a pier of the Alma bridge he serves as an indicator of Seine river level. (emergency level is reached when his feets are in the water).
The blade shape is called French blade,again reason remains unknown. (http://www.coltelleriasaladini.it/en/prodotti/zuava-2/)

 

Tidioute #72 Cody Scout Lockback in Grizzly Cut Bone



Tidioute #85 Bullet End Jack "Beaver Tail" in Jigged Brazilian Cherry



This round was fun! I challenged myself to post as many GEC knives as I could, at least one for each letter, no duplicates. 26 days, 26 letters, 91 GECs, and 1 Excel spreadsheet to keep track of everything.

 

I'm following the herdZ for once with this ZULU SPEAR too Zucchini in the pasta?

 

AnZa (with CZ).


K

 

I’m sorry to have misssd the second half of the alphabet in this round. I’ve been watching and enjoying the show, but too far from my knives to make any contributions. On this last letter of round 2, here is a Mike Zscherny stag backpocket sandwiched between two of his Barlows

 

I was waiting for you to post one of your Zscherny's, David. Very nice!

 

Great Barlows!!!

 

Ah!! And so Eli starts us in the creative version of this game with the A's!!
A collection of Ancient Barlows, EH? (As we Canadians might say!!)

 

AAAAAAAAAAARGHHH! ANIHILATED Can't manage a third, but looking forward to others's ADDITIONS

 

A very cheAp Acquisition. But A greAt cArrier!!!

 

Ancient Barlow for me!

 

Ancients

 

In Round 1, I posted as many of my knives as I could for each letter-day, using the initial letters of words used to describe a knife to decide if it was legit. As a result, many knives were posted several times over the course of the round.

In Round 2, I posted exactly one knife each day, and never posted a knife more than once in that round.

In Round 3, I plan to take a minimalist approach in the sense of posting as few knives as I can to cover the entire alphabet. By using admittedly comprehensive knife descriptions, I think I'll be able to handle A-Z with just THREE knives.

I just wanted to let you know what "rules" I'm playing by.

My Entry for A:
XYZ Brands produces, in China, an America's Trades, Double-ended Canoe Pattern with Parallel-Jigged Brown Bone covers having Threaded Bolsters and an Oval Handyman's Club of America Shield (and an HCOA LTD Tang Stamp). It Arrived Packaged in a Black Velour Bag inside a Black Cardboard Box.


- GT

 

Animals!!

 

"Clever"