What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Bloefield]

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

This one today : Too late to get good photos today

And this one too : Both carried rarely and always in Slips

Harry

Sorry, Harry. How could have forgotten you have one of those, in stag no less.
I temember telling you I love the smooth, white stag by the bolsters ~ sets off the bark.

Have a nice day

Oh for the lack of a thumb...

 

[sf fanatic]

Funny thing about getting old — you start to measure life in the things you keep. Not the big things, mind you, but the small ones. Like these knives. Every one of them has a story. This one here, with the bone handle? I got that the day my father took me fishing on the Tallapoosa, right after he told me not to be afraid of the water. And this little one, the Barlow, I traded for a bag of marbles in fifth grade. Never told my mother.

But the Case stockman — that one’s different. That was the knife I carried every day. Three blades, all sharp as the day I bought it. I used it to peel apples, cut twine, whittle a toy duck for my granddaughter. I must’ve oiled that hinge a hundred times. It just fits in your hand right, like it belongs there, like it’s always belonged there.

So when I lost it, I felt like I’d lost more than just a knife. I tore this house apart. Checked every pocket, every cushion. Even looked under the porch, though my knees aren’t what they used to be. I kept thinking: if I can lose something I’ve kept close for twenty years, what else might slip away? Memory’s not as sharp as it used to be, either.

And then, this afternoon, that neighbor boy — Jackson — comes running up, all out of breath, and he’s got it in his hand. Says he found it near the mailbox, right where I must’ve dropped it. He looked so proud, like he’d found buried treasure. And you know what? Maybe he did.

I took it back, and I just stood there, holding it. All that worry, all that fuss — and here it was, safe and sound. I thanked the boy, of course. Gave him a firm handshake. Might’ve slipped him a five, too. But what I wanted to tell him, what I couldn’t quite get out, was that it isn’t just a knife. It’s all the days gone by, all the times I’ve needed something steady to hold onto and found it right there in my pocket.

Funny thing about getting old — you start to realize what you really value. And sometimes, if you’re lucky, what you thought was lost finds its way home again.

I have discovered AI writing programs

 

[5K Qs]

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Congrats on the handsome Kutmaster stockman, Tim; love the rounded bolsters!

Tidioute 828318 Dixie Sotockman and '18(?) Guardians Lamb Foot.
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That Dixie stockman is a superb stockman variation, Steve!

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Your Possum Skinner is awesome, David!

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Great grain on your ironwood lambsfoot, Bob!
The slimline trapper is the only 4"+ trapper I like to carry.

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My Grandad toted a Camillus Silver Sword just like that 85, except the secondary was the usual pen. I'd prefer a coping blade like that one.
Geandpa's knife is retired in my drawer. The secondary spring is broken, and both blades are well used. Sharpened. Used, etc. I bought another off the internet to carry. It too, has blade wear but I don't notice it until @Travman shows us his that looks NOS.
I've not tried looking it up, but those knives are very old. Guess maybe pre-WWII. Wish I could ask Grandpa.

Having a knife from your grandfather must be special; great that you could find one like it to carry!
The coping blade on my GEC 85 was originally a pen blade, modded by the previous owner; he also added the EO notch. Both are welcome improvements IMHO!

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What an outstanding canoe variation, Kurt! (I don't know if it's intended to be a canoe, but that's how I see it.)
What shape is the secondary blade?

The covers on your knife are sensational! Some kind of old-fashioned stag?
Do you know anything about the blade etch??

Big snake, little snake.
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Couple of cool copperheads! I like the copperheads, like these, that have 2 primary blades, instead of a main and a secondary.

I really like the 2-tone handle on your rope knife, Jeff!

A little UL stream fishing on an overcast summer day. The black burlap Micarta Crossroads saw no action, but stood at the ready. Water was low and clear. If you didn’t hook up on first cast, you were out of luck. I hooked one nice smallie, buy it got off. I’m deep down the BFS (Bait Finesse System) rabbit hole using UL equipment and baits. It’s a blast!
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But, I didn’t get skunked. I landed this beauty on the way home!
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All my fishing is now pie fishing!

Good wood on wood!

It probably is. I'm not aware of Canal Street ever having made a large number of any particular variant.

Thanks for the info, Frank.

My favorite part of that knife's design is the horn "endcap"!

5K Qs They're Poker or Gaming Dice, Gary You can enter a game with next to nothing and leave with a fortune On the other hand....the value of your investments may go down as well as up... Let's just say that they can be of great interest to the gambler at heart (or clubs or spades or diamonds...)

Full House

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I can't remember, but I found these dice in a box of my teenage belongings when I was clearing out the attic of my family home after my father died.

Perhaps a form of poker? or a Yams clone?

Thank you Will

You've saved me, I had no memory of these dice brought back from England in my teens.

Thanks for the info about these fascinating poker dice, gentlemen! Are there always 5 dice in a set? Are all 5 dice identical? It looks like the 6 faces of each die are 9, 10, J, Q, K, A (but I don't think suits can really be relevant if there are just 5 dice). The probability of rolling 3 of a kind with the dice can't possibly be the same as being dealt 3 of a kind from a 52-card poker deck, can it? But maybe the "ranking" of various outcomes (e.g. full house "beats" 3 of a kind) is the same whether rolling the dice or dealing cards??

5K Qs ~

"Pretty Primble!
Jeff, do you use that contraption to stretch your palms?"

Thanks!
Flexors vs. extensors.
I saw that at Guitar Center, and was intrigued. I've always kept hand exercisers in the car, squeeze balls, various spring loaded grippers, etc., but this is the only device I've run across that works out the hand in extension. I can feel an entirely different set of muscles getting worked all the way up my forearm.
I just like have something non-distracting to do while driving, and as an aging guitar player, I'd prefer to keep my hands flexible and strong.

Excuse me while I ...

stretch my palms.

Interesting exercise device, Jeff, and working muscles "both directions" makes sense. I get to the campus fitness center a couple of times each week to lift weights in hopes of slowing down the rate of geriatric muscle atrophy, and try to do pairs of exercises that do the flex/extend balancing.
My "driving toy" for the car for a long time now has been this little pink curly thingus that I can fold one-handed into a variety of shapes.

Excuse me while I ...
It's been a while since I saw the movie, but isn't that line from Blazing Saddles when the new black sheriff meets the townspeople for the first time? Must have made quite an impression on me.

- GT

 

[Rufus1949]

Funny thing about getting old — you start to measure life in the things you keep. Not the big things, mind you, but the small ones. Like these knives. Every one of them has a story. This one here, with the bone handle? I got that the day my father took me fishing on the Tallapoosa, right after he told me not to be afraid of the water. And this little one, the Barlow, I traded for a bag of marbles in fifth grade. Never told my mother.

But the Case stockman — that one’s different. That was the knife I carried every day. Three blades, all sharp as the day I bought it. I used it to peel apples, cut twine, whittle a toy duck for my granddaughter. I must’ve oiled that hinge a hundred times. It just fits in your hand right, like it belongs there, like it’s always belonged there.

So when I lost it, I felt like I’d lost more than just a knife. I tore this house apart. Checked every pocket, every cushion. Even looked under the porch, though my knees aren’t what they used to be. I kept thinking: if I can lose something I’ve kept close for twenty years, what else might slip away? Memory’s not as sharp as it used to be, either.

And then, this afternoon, that neighbor boy — Jackson — comes running up, all out of breath, and he’s got it in his hand. Says he found it near the mailbox, right where I must’ve dropped it. He looked so proud, like he’d found buried treasure. And you know what? Maybe he did.

I took it back, and I just stood there, holding it. All that worry, all that fuss — and here it was, safe and sound. I thanked the boy, of course. Gave him a firm handshake. Might’ve slipped him a five, too. But what I wanted to tell him, what I couldn’t quite get out, was that it isn’t just a knife. It’s all the days gone by, all the times I’ve needed something steady to hold onto and found it right there in my pocket.

Funny thing about getting old — you start to realize what you really value. And sometimes, if you’re lucky, what you thought was lost finds its way home again.

I have discovered AI writing programs
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Dan,
Glad you were reunited with your knife and the young man possesses a high level of honesty.

 

[Rufus1949]

Great grain on your ironwood lambsfoot, Bob!
The slimline trapper is the only 4"+ trapper I like to carry.

- GT

Thanks Gary, I too, find it a tolerable 4" carry.

 

[sf fanatic]

Dan,
Glad you were reunited with your knife and the young man possesses a high level of honesty.

Thanks Bob but you might want to read the last sentence of the post. It’s just a AI generated soliloquy. But not bad for my first attempt .

 

[Rufus1949]

Thanks Bob but you might want to read the last sentence of the post. It’s just a AI generated soliloquy. By not bad for my first attempt .

 

[Mick Boardman]

 

[BrotherJim]

Funny thing about getting old — you start to measure life in the things you keep. Not the big things, mind you, but the small ones. Like these knives. Every one of them has a story. This one here, with the bone handle? I got that the day my father took me fishing on the Tallapoosa, right after he told me not to be afraid of the water. And this little one, the Barlow, I traded for a bag of marbles in fifth grade. Never told my mother.

But the Case stockman — that one’s different. That was the knife I carried every day. Three blades, all sharp as the day I bought it. I used it to peel apples, cut twine, whittle a toy duck for my granddaughter. I must’ve oiled that hinge a hundred times. It just fits in your hand right, like it belongs there, like it’s always belonged there.

So when I lost it, I felt like I’d lost more than just a knife. I tore this house apart. Checked every pocket, every cushion. Even looked under the porch, though my knees aren’t what they used to be. I kept thinking: if I can lose something I’ve kept close for twenty years, what else might slip away? Memory’s not as sharp as it used to be, either.

And then, this afternoon, that neighbor boy — Jackson — comes running up, all out of breath, and he’s got it in his hand. Says he found it near the mailbox, right where I must’ve dropped it. He looked so proud, like he’d found buried treasure. And you know what? Maybe he did.

I took it back, and I just stood there, holding it. All that worry, all that fuss — and here it was, safe and sound. I thanked the boy, of course. Gave him a firm handshake. Might’ve slipped him a five, too. But what I wanted to tell him, what I couldn’t quite get out, was that it isn’t just a knife. It’s all the days gone by, all the times I’ve needed something steady to hold onto and found it right there in my pocket.

Funny thing about getting old — you start to realize what you really value. And sometimes, if you’re lucky, what you thought was lost finds its way home again.

I have discovered AI writing programs
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Next time, just tell folks you misplaced a tiny piece of your soul. Sounds less dramatic than losing a pocketknife !!! Shoot

 

[sf fanatic]

Next time, just tell folks you misplaced a tiny piece of your soul. Sounds less dramatic than losing a pocketknife !!! Shoot

I guess I could just rewrite the parameters

 

[WinMag775]

The covers on your knife are sensational! Some kind of old-fashioned stag?
Do you know anything about the blade etch??

Thank you. Its a Lockwood brothers, Sheffield. They were made from 1865'ish-1890. I was lucky to find is as NOS. Post 1890 knives had their country of origion stamped on the tang after the 1890 McKinley Tariff Act.

For the blade stamp, the bird is a Greater Rhea. It's a flightless bird that predominantly roams the Pampas grasslands in South America.

Foreign counterfeiting was rampant back in the day, so Lockwood came up with this stamp, since most of their knives were targeting the South American market. They focused mainly on farmers and livestock workers in that region.

Heres a shot of the pile side covers.

 

[Jacques Mi]

 

[Scholefield123]

Whoever decided on this one , absolutely nailed it , what a fantastic pattern , probably one of the best BF knives made ( in my humble opinion) .

 

[BrotherJim]

I guess I could just rewrite the parameters

Using AI to adjust the parameters?
Probably already writing you a very emotional apology letter for losing your knife.
Thank goodness for Jackson stepping in to save both the knife and AI’s dignity. Pretty good deal for a five-spot.
Nice story Dan, I enjoyed it
Very cool Case Stockman too !!! Hang onto it

 

[PenisMightier]

Congrats on the handsome Kutmaster stockman, Tim; love the rounded bolsters!


That Dixie stockman is a superb stockman variation, Steve!


Your Possum Skinner is awesome, David!


Great grain on your ironwood lambsfoot, Bob!
The slimline trapper is the only 4"+ trapper I like to carry.


Having a knife from your grandfather must be special; great that you could find one like it to carry!
The coping blade on my GEC 85 was originally a pen blade, modded by the previous owner; he also added the EO notch. Both are welcome improvements IMHO!


What an outstanding canoe variation, Kurt! (I don't know if it's intended to be a canoe, but that's how I see it.)
What shape is the secondary blade?


The covers on your knife are sensational! Some kind of old-fashioned stag?
Do you know anything about the blade etch??


Couple of cool copperheads! I like the copperheads, like these, that have 2 primary blades, instead of a main and a secondary.


I really like the 2-tone handle on your rope knife, Jeff!


All my fishing is now pie fishing!


Good wood on wood!


Thanks for the info, Frank.


My favorite part of that knife's design is the horn "endcap"!




Thanks for the info about these fascinating poker dice, gentlemen! Are there always 5 dice in a set? Are all 5 dice identical? It looks like the 6 faces of each die are 9, 10, J, Q, K, A (but I don't think suits can really be relevant if there are just 5 dice). The probability of rolling 3 of a kind with the dice can't possibly be the same as being dealt 3 of a kind from a 52-card poker deck, can it? But maybe the "ranking" of various outcomes (e.g. full house "beats" 3 of a kind) is the same whether rolling the dice or dealing cards??


Interesting exercise device, Jeff, and working muscles "both directions" makes sense. I get to the campus fitness center a couple of times each week to lift weights in hopes of slowing down the rate of geriatric muscle atrophy, and try to do pairs of exercises that do the flex/extend balancing.
My "driving toy" for the car for a long time now has been this little pink curly thingus that I can fold one-handed into a variety of shapes.

Excuse me while I ...
It's been a while since I saw the movie, but isn't that line from Blazing Saddles when the new black sheriff meets the townspeople for the first time? Must have made quite an impression on me.

- GT

Excellent knife and movie! Both knife and movie happen to be favorites of mine as well.

My favorite quote from the movie has to be Slim Pickens line “Someone’s got to go back and get a $&@* load of dimes!”

 

[PenisMightier]

These two have not seemed to want to leave my pocket for quite awhile now. They are a useful pair!

 

[KentuckyBlackBird]

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Thank you, sir. I like them as well, although I’d like a copperhead with a thin sheep’s foot /healthy lambsfoot primary and a secondary coping blade! It probably wouldn’t be as pretty as it would be functional, but who knows. This may be an AI assignment. I’ve never tried it before, but….

 

[Modoc ED]

Gonna mow the backyard today. No telling how many hidey holes dug by "Abby" the Hoarder we'll find. This calls for a Sod Buster Jr. - one of the new fancy XR Crossroads variations. Sausage and eggs-up for breakfast.

 

[KentuckyBlackBird]

These three.