- Joined
- Jan 17, 2011
- Messages
- 15,193
The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Thanks for the compliment Jeff!Love your 54, Ron, and the WCLF aint bad either.
Either of these could fit the bill for a one-knife man, and I suspect that the Camillus was.![]()
I've been admiring yours for the past few days as I awaited mine to arrive.Very NICE John, Purple Sage covers? I enjoy my Orange Jig BoneA great Jack indeed,I believe 315 mentioned that GEC is overdue for a re-release of these
![]()
Today with A. Wright in Ebony, "Guardians 18".
...
For this wooden Wednesday I decided to give the ebony Buffalo Jack some time out of the house. This was my first GEC, IIRC, and it is still a "go to"....
...
View attachment 1190676 It used to annoy me that a previous caretaker cut those crude easy opener notches on the old Eagle Jack. I ground out and polished the one furthest from the pivots to make it a bit more symmetrical, but there’s really little to be done in the way of making them more attractive. Like they say, “I cut it twice, and it’s still too short”.
However, that previous owner USED this knife, and did what he had to do to make it work. And the sharpening loss in the blades is a far cry from grinder abuse. This knife was carried and used for a long time, and I smile every time I use it.
Interesting how both have the same shield on cocobolo.View attachment 1190677Have a good Woodnesday!
Black is Beautiful
...
GEC #15
Black knives are the Best knives
...
Back in Black!
...
The bounty of black knives toted and posted today bullied me into totin' this old friend. Keen Kutter jumbo jack (1870-1940):
...
- Stuart
...
My daughter wanted to pick at least one and so she picked what she though was one of my prettiest. That paired with my Waynorth Lambfoot in Ebony make for a good looking duo.
...
Black is back
...
I thought maybe I had missed a couple of days and it was already Friday when all these black knives started showing up!!Honestly this has been in my pocket all day, because it’s Wednesday! I wasn’t influenced by the previous posts. But great minds...
Chris, I've switched to carrying quite a few of my knives for the week in a backpack that's almost always with me and/or in a fannypack I'll wear on the bus. But I do have a Minichamp and another SAK of some kind hanging from a suspension clip on the back edge of LFP, and my "retirement" Alox Solo in a little compartment formed by a safety pin along the front edge of my LFP. I usually have a knife with a bail attached to the keyring in my RFP, a lmabsfoot in a slip in the bottom of RFP, and a couple of knives in my watch pocket. I almost always wear carpenter pants, so I have a big knife in the long tool pocket on the right leg, and in the smaller outer tool pocket is a little nylon pouch containing my bus pass and my peanut-like knife for the week. So I have at least 8 or 9 in my pants pockets. I also almost always wear suspenders and discovered that I can wear a horizontal belt sheath holding 2 knives vertically between each suspender strap and the front of my shirt, so that gives me 4 more knives on my person (unless I have wide suspenders on that the sheaths won't fit).That's a great set today. Though I have no idea who makes pants with enough pockets to hold all that!![]()
Thanks, John.That's a beauty right there, GT.![]()
Thanks for answering my nosy question, and for assessing my knives favorably!Thanks Gary, the #43 is my main Large blade knife these days and the older ones still get used for the smaller tasks and for enjoyment as well
Your selection this week is top notch !
Terrific timber twosome, Steve!A couple of woodies today
Sword Brand Jack and a WN
![]()
Thanks for the reply, Rachel, including some uses for awls that I haven't tried yet.I'm afraid I haven't had much chance to use it as a reamer yet, GT. It has come in handy a few times when sharpening pencils. After using the blade to expose the lead, the punch makes a good scraper for refining the point.
![]()
It's not as pointy as the one on the 2016 Forum Knife "Drover" but the side edge is very sharp. and using it to scrape stuff saves the blade edges.
Thanks, Jeff.Thank you, Gary, your Painted Desert Rough Rider is very handsome!![]()
You sure have a lot of satisfying and solid Old Timers!!Schrade Muskrat today.
...
![]()
Thanks for the positive comments, Jack.Thanks GT, funny how a knife can just grab hold of your pocket!Quality quartet my friend, and four great pics
![]()
![]()
Thanks for the Okapi props, Harvey.
Given that you have an affinity for the stockman pattern, I'd recommend that you see how the sowbelly variation compares to some of your favorite stockman models.Very nice Canoes, Gary! I'm looking at Canoes and Sowbellies now and am conflicted which one to get first.
Thank you, Gary. I've had the Pocket Eze over 20 years (I think); it is Queen made and is a true Wharncliffe knife (Wharncliffe main, dogleg pattern) in ATS-34. I've posted it before. One more fact, I dropped it shortly after I got it and it sustained a hairline crack on the pile side.
...
Stellar vintage stag stockman, Dean!
Thank you GT, Presidentials are special knives.
The Farmer is dark green, oftentimes my pics do not do the colors justice. I’ll take a pic with better lighting later today. It was part of a trade w JaxBaron, and I really took to it after my Pioneer (which was black) was shamefully stolen. The Farmer and Presidential have become a nice pair.
Thanks for the extra Farmer pic, JB; that must be quite a dark green (but I think I've seen that color offered by one or more dealers).Alox Farmer combination with Presidential again.
GT,5K Qs not sure the green comes out like it should and I didn’t doctor the photo, other than size.
View attachment 1191110
Is 5 days in a row unusual for a single knife for you, Paul?This Orange jigged bone 66 is on day 5
...
Here's a pic for Charlie, your gift is in this picture Charlie
![]()
Joe, I have a Carhartt mini trapper (thanks, John) and a rosewood lambsfoot just like yours, and I think they are excellent, no-nonsense knives!This was yesterday
![]()
Really into the shape on this one. And it made me miss my Lambsfoot. So I had to bring it along for today.
![]()
Joe
Thanks for the kindness, JJ.
I appreciate your saying so, José.These canoes are magnificent Gary.![]()
Very attractive red jigged bone jack, José!
Chris, I've switched to carrying quite a few of my knives for the week in a backpack that's almost always with me and/or in a fannypack I'll wear on the bus. But I do have a Minichamp and another SAK of some kind hanging from a suspension clip on the back edge of LFP, and my "retirement" Alox Solo in a little compartment formed by a safety pin along the front edge of my LFP. I usually have a knife with a bail attached to the keyring in my RFP, a lmabsfoot in a slip in the bottom of RFP, and a couple of knives in my watch pocket. I almost always wear carpenter pants, so I have a big knife in the long tool pocket on the right leg, and in the smaller outer tool pocket is a little nylon pouch containing my bus pass and my peanut-like knife for the week. So I have at least 8 or 9 in my pants pockets. I also almost always wear suspenders and discovered that I can wear a horizontal belt sheath holding 2 knives vertically between each suspender strap and the front of my shirt, so that gives me 4 more knives on my person (unless I have wide suspenders on that the sheaths won't fit).
- GT
A beautiful arrangement of a beautiful knife, Gev.
Gary, of late 6 days as of today is a bit unusual, say compared to the almost 14 months straight that I carried my 2013 Clip/pen Ebony TC.Is 5 days in a row unusual for a single knife for you, Paul?
And at first I thought you had a fireplace on your patio, built into the side of the building! That would be a wonderful feature to have, but I guess your is just a window.
- GT
Much appreciated, Harvey ! I enjoy all your fabulous photos. I was at Central Market today at the bakery and smiled thinking about youA beautiful arrangement of a beautiful knife, Gev.