What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

Paul - thats a great photo of two VERY nice TC's!!! Beautiful Colour!!!

Travman - NICE TC!!! Those Red Soup's were an instant hit - GEC I feel hit the nail on the head - and again IMO- feel that the colour was as good as the 60's and 70's Case red Bone- which is a big thing to state.

Speaking of case - Pt Luso, beautiful knife!

Atiger - Clearcut Barlow, I havent heard too much about them - Nice Looking Knife you have there.
 
I have seen plenty of examples of fine cutlery from the "golden age" manufactures and from present day manufacturers on this thread and have learned a lot. Makes me happy knowing someday I can pass these onto my children and maybe they'll send them off with the next generation.



A good friend of mine told me these pocket knives are like little time machines. He's right! Every time I look at them I imagine myself in an old hardware store or general store. :thumbup::thumbup:

 
GREAT pair of TC's Cscholl and pictures of them. I love old currency and the left coin in the top picture has me intrigued, can you tell me more about it please?
 
paulhilborn said:
GREAT pair of TC's Cscholl and pictures of them. I love old currency and the left coin in the top picture has me intrigued, can you tell me more about it please?
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Thanks Paul! that is a "large Cent" or what's left of one anyway :D made between 1793-1857 is the equivalent to a penny today. A friend of my mothers gave it to her to give to me. You can barely make anything out of it anymore. I call it the "Shadow Penny" because it has the silhouette of lady liberty. I love using coins now in my photos because it gives people reference to how old these knives could be. Heck these coins probably rode right alongside a knife just like this one back in the day.
 
Cscholl17 said:
I have seen plenty of examples of fine cutlery from the "golden age" manufactures and from present day manufacturers on this thread and have learned a lot. Makes me happy knowing someday I can pass these onto my children and maybe they'll send them off with the next generation.



A good friend of mine told me these pocket knives are like little time machines. He's right! Every time I look at them I imagine myself in an old hardware store or general store. :thumbup::thumbup:

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Love this mix of nostalgia and the new. Beautiful knives.


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Thank you ! That was my grandfather's #07 Miller Falls ! (handle was replaced with a larger one)

The #14 GEC is in my pocket today.
 
The best type of knife or tool is one that has a family history. Both the #14 and #07 (skew block plane) are somewhat rare.
 
Definitely not the fanciest Barlow around, but there's something quite warm about the brass and rosewood combo on this Kabar.
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Cscholl17 said:
I have seen plenty of examples of fine cutlery from the "golden age" manufactures and from present day manufacturers on this thread and have learned a lot. Makes me happy knowing someday I can pass these onto my children and maybe they'll send them off with the next generation.

A good friend of mine told me these pocket knives are like little time machines. He's right! Every time I look at them I imagine myself in an old hardware store or general store. :thumbup::thumbup:
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I like your idea of knives as time machines. How will these modern old Barlows be thought of by future knife users?

 
RDaneel said:
I like your idea of knives as time machines. How will these modern old Barlows be thought of by future knife users?

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Thanks Dean! A knife with a good story/history is even more special IMO....Hey I've never seen a coin like that one before ;)
 
Campbellclanman said:
Travman - NICE TC!!! Those Red Soup's were an instant hit - GEC I feel hit the nail on the head - and again IMO- feel that the colour was as good as the 60's and 70's Case red Bone- which is a big thing to state.
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When I first received this Red Soupbone version the first thing I noticed was the deep red color and I too thought of Case's red bone knives. It is only the GEC I've seen that really comes close. I'm definitely in love. I haven't set this one down since it came last week.

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Edit: and thanks to Bob (BigBiscuit) for passing it along to me.
 
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Travman said:
When I first received this Red Soupbone version the first thing I noticed was the deep red color and I too thought of Case's red bone knives. It is only the GEC I've seen that really comes close. I'm definitely in love. I haven't set this one down since it came last week.

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Great travman. There's red and then there's RED. That is very red, I agree like the old Case Redbone.
 
Received this Shrade Barlow as a gift yesterday from Gasman1 . It is a well made knife that is in great shape. It has been carried very little in it's lifetime of what I suspect is about 40 years . You folks who collect Schrade will know the timeline better than I so please help me out on the timeline if I am way off . Just a Much Appreciated gift from Dave ( Gasman1 )
Shown along side my other Schrade Barlow and the Russell 1975 Commemorative Addition that I suspect was made by Schrade .

Harry
 
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