It passed the red hot needle test with flying colors. I own many ivory and bone knives.
Here is a old Bone handle Barlow.
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It passed the red hot needle test with flying colors. I own many ivory and bone knives.
Here is a old Bone handle Barlow.
I had not thought about it for a long time but I had a small tackle box full of older knives like Barlows that I inherited from my Grandpa and cheaper ones from my youth. A low down scum bag broke into my house around 35 years ago, didn't get much but stole that tackle box. I had all my more expensive knives in my safe. Never did recover it and I am still bummed about it.
In the summer of 1979, I was 11 going on 12. My father told me there are three things a man should carry in his pockets every single day...a wallet, a handkerchief and a pocket knife.
The leather trifold wallet and white cotton hankie are long gone, but I still have the very first pocket knife that he gave me 45 years ago...
Dad loved Old Timer. I think part of that was because his older brother owned a small grocery/hardware/feed store and he sold Old Timer/Uncle Henry pocket knives.
The leather trifold wallet and white cotton hankie are long gone, but I still have the very first pocket knife that he gave me 45 years ago...
Dad loved Old Timer. I think part of that was because his older brother owned a small grocery/hardware/feed store and he sold Old Timer/Uncle Henry pocket knives.
Me too. I’m a kid of the 80’s and would buy a brass handle everyone at the state fair international show back then. Still have me of to here snack Golden Dragons. Early 90’s at Old Paris flea market I bought some stag handle Butterfly Balising and wishI still had it.Yep, lost a little skin till I learned how to flip them.
I was blanking on name and source...the ones I had were given to some boys for their fun and games. The puukkos are by Marco Lindela of Tommi knife shop later ownership and is "ok", the birchbark version is a masterwork of 80CRV2 by Pasi Hurttila, every part of either knife, including sheaths and their wooden liners done by hand by the puukkoseppa/smith.
@okiebertt Adore the Benchmade balisongs and the Al Mar knives. Glad to see somebody remembers the W49 bowie, it's heavy but excellent distal taper and convex grind, and works with finesse.
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He loved them because they were excellent knives. I THINK Schrade was using the same Sharon 0170-6 steel alloy as used by Case in the 1950s and 60s...they later were for sure 1095, but those two differ only by very small amounts of chromium and vanadium, and were well heat treated for durability, but never good enough for boys or men to pry. You could retip that to a point, but I know you wouldn't do that for even a large bribe.
Not really suprising on the ivory, ivory used to be everywhere, on everything, and still a lot of it was around when I was a kid. I still recall buying a tiny handcarved ivory elephant as a child using only saved ten-cents a week allowance, friends and neighbors houses cluttered with ivory knick-knacks, especially mantels, hair brush handles, combs, had an ivory pen knife and even a gold one with gold clamshell stamped scales and bail.
No sir! I broke the tip of that blade prying open a paint can in shop class when I was 15. That little Stockman has seen a lot of miles as you can see. It's been used for everything from skinning squirrels and many, many heated matches of mumblypeg.
I was fortunate enough to grow up and go to school in an era where ALL MEN had a .22 rifle in their truck and carried a pocket knife. It was literally in me pocket...
Every. Single. Day.
The great lesson we learned from those broken tips was to never pry with the tip, but to instead try to get a little more of the back into the crack and pry with that.
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