What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Buck 501 pictured. Sak Walker always too.
Jack and I have been watching a Bald Eagle family [two babies] since April. Today they were out but Bambi was watching us. The nest is high up in the tree across the stream.
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The fog is thick today here in the City by the Bay! Well at least on my side of the City. Going to get a heart monitor hooked up this afternoon. I’ll wear it for two weeks and if all looks good I can stop my heart medication🤞. In the meantime keeping me company the usual lamb and pachyderm toe🐘. Have a great day folks! 😀
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sf fanatic said:
The fog is thick today here in the City by the Bay! Well at least on my side of the City. Going to get a heart monitor hooked up this afternoon. I’ll wear it for two weeks and if all looks good I can stop my heart medication🤞. In the meantime keeping me company the usual lamb and pachyderm toe🐘. Have a great day folks! 😀
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Hope the two weeks passes quickly and ends with great news
 
Gary W. Graley said:
Thanks, it is an older piece made by Amherst Cutlery here in the states, I am not sure of where they were produced. I have owned a few of their designs and they are well made. Every now and then one will appear from someone’s collection as this one did recently.
And I just made a small leather slip sheath for it, and a braided leather fob with a decorative bead that is held in place by a thin wedge of rubberized cork.

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Thanks, It is really beautiful nice find
 
Just Within Hand’s Reach

Late afternoon light filtered through the window and fell across the kitchen counter, where a pocket knife rested. Its green curly maple scales caught amber tones like old varnish on a violin, enhancing the teardrop-patterned design from Case Cutlery and Tony Bose. The stainless steel Wharncliffe blade lay folded open like a statement, sharp and willing. Near the pocket knife were three coins: a Mercury dime, a steel penny from the war years, and a Morgan dollar struck in 1900. Together, they made a little arrangement that seemed unplanned but inevitable, like most good things that end up in a man’s pocket.

There was utility in the pocket knife, yes, but also a kind of quiet bearing. Not just from the polished nickel silver bolsters or the gleam of the stainless blade, but from something subtler. It was the sense of years skillfully worked into the traditional design. The knife had seen light work and even opened personal and meaningful envelopes from names that mattered. And there was history carried in the weight of those coins. The coins had passed through hands that most likely clutched them tightly in hard times. On a kitchen surface, alone in the hush of a house that embraced timelessness, these things waited seemingly without purpose, yet full of purpose all the same.

And so these objects remained, silent witnesses to a history that never truly ended, only shifted, from one hand to the next.


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Gary W. Graley said:
Thanks, it is an older piece made by Amherst Cutlery here in the states, I am not sure of where they were produced. I have owned a few of their designs and they are well made. Every now and then one will appear from someone’s collection as this one did recently.
And I just made a small leather slip sheath for it, and a braided leather fob with a decorative bead that is held in place by a thin wedge of rubberized cork.

https://flic.kr/p/2rfGDm7

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Remarkable blade and some very decent Stag. Most of their knives had a very good look about them with quality Stag and unusual designs.:cool:

Few years back, the figure who owned Amherst Cutlery seemed to have a melt-down or fall out with a key person so he inevitably got the hammer, unfortunately. Prior to this he made a grand gesture of raffling off some of his knives by picking a number and if it came up he promised to send you an Amherst. I was sceptical about this...my number was chosen and I claimed it, but I'm still waiting 🤣 Despite the public hoo-har they made a desirable knife which are well worth landing if you're lucky enough to get the opportunity :thumbsup:
 
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