Nice one Mitch.
Those Jumbo 6375s are one of the best value Traditionals around, I reckon. I use mine quite a bit.
Thanks for the happy memory Jack.
I treasure all those knives you gifted me, and often look them over, and think of their previous lives and who might have used them.
Nice find, Harvey.
I love seeing those knives which have been worn away with much use and sharpening over the years.
What I especially enjoy about this one, is that it appears to have been carefully repaired over its lifetime with a different cover scale, and perhaps put back together with nails in place of the original pins.
We must seem like a mighty profligate lot, if any of those old boys who kept and cared for one knife for years and years could see how we change knives like Imelda Marcos changed shoes.
Also, when I showed it to my brother, he immediately quoted a bit of Pacino film dialogue we used to laugh about:
‘All over the Five Boroughs I’m
known. Fuhgeddaboudit. All over the
world I’m
known. Anybody, ask
anybody about Lefty...from Mulberry Street.’ LOL
(
Embedded the clip from Donnie Brasco, but realised just before posting, it had a verboten word in it.)
Your Hartshead is looking great, Jack.