Your newest addition:traditionals of course!

Thanks Paul!

Thanks Gev!

 

Dave that is a gorgeous Freemont.

Wow what a group of gems. They are all incredible but that fantastic Cargill sow does it for me.

Goodness Ron what a haul! Awesome knives. Love the BB's.

 

Thank you, Dwight.

 

Very nice Spaten, maybe the best forum knife ever? What stag

 

Thank you! The knife is a real looker, and I couldn’t be happier with it.

 

Thank you.

 

Thanks. I was quite surprised to find that one.

 

@Fodderwing Thanks Dwight! The BB are a terrific knife.

 

Forum member took my offer for this one. Very happy to have one of my grails in hand.

 

Thanks Will Power. I appreciate it. I will definitely enjoy this one.

 

I don't like it when there're lines left from the grinding right at the tang (?, the thick part at the base of the blade where the kick and tang stamps are). I seem to preffer it glaze polished but I find it appealing when just the mark side of the main blade is polished, even if it's historically a cost cutting feature. Haven't got any examples of that though. I have a Schrade 881 stockman where someone decided to polish the front sides of all 3 blades. A shame really as the original glaze finish on the blades is very nice. But since it's a user (like all my knives), it gets patina anyway and then I don't care much about it.

May I ask what you use for polishing the blades? Our American members talk a lot about Flitz and the like, but I doubt you can that over here. What would some alternatives be?

 

Thanks for the compliment Will! I am like you sir, in the fact that I appreciate the quality and value of the Queen produced Black Box Winchester’s! I must confess that it was not me, my friend, that took your Wharncliffe sailing on the Bay. I actually acquired all of the pictured knives at the Spirit of Steel Knife Show in Pigeon Forge Tennessee on Saturday. The gentleman I purchased my BB’s from had a great assortment to choose from. He did not however have a Pen model which I would have gladly snagged as a backup. I will not mention the ridiculously reasonable price that I paid for these.

 

Nice photo, grails are hard to come by!

 

Autosol is still for sale, I bought some not long ago. An other alternative is Puma polishing paste.

 

Thanks for the reccommendation!

 

Here's my most recent addition. I have another one (a stag Gunstock) that I haven't added to this forum, but I don't have it with me to picture.