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by robpa
Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:59 pm
Forum: General Knife Discussion
Topic: Mail Call !-Post your new pick-ups here............
Replies: 33514
Views: 1869242

Re: Mail Call !-Post your new pick-ups here............

Lots and lots of good knives today at the gun show. I coulda bought 100 Queens & Schatts if I had the bucks. I did score these 3 Queen bird/trout knives. A stag, a blue smooth bone and a rams horn. He is gonna hold the other 3 for me, wood, honey bone and youth with black bone. These guys came t...
by robpa
Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:54 pm
Forum: Queen Cutlery Collector's Forum
Topic: My newest Queen
Replies: 374
Views: 45785

Re: My newest Queen

Got this 1958-60 #75 at a gun shop the other day. Appears to have been buffed but not a bad job.
by robpa
Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:36 pm
Forum: General Knife Discussion
Topic: Are gun shows LESS fun for you nowadays or are they just as good as they used to be?
Replies: 31
Views: 990

Re: Are gun shows LESS fun for you nowadays or are they just as good as they used to be?

lotsa gun shows within 60 miles here. lots of knives, good stuff too. In fact there are 3 in 2 weeks on the same weekend. Lots of Queen stuff.pretty good prices especiall when ya bundle.
by robpa
Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:35 am
Forum: Veteran’s Forum
Topic: Happy Vietnam Veterans Day
Replies: 14
Views: 196

Re: Happy Vietnam Veterans Day

I dont like the wall. its about all I have to say about it.
by robpa
Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:45 pm
Forum: Veteran’s Forum
Topic: Happy Vietnam Veterans Day
Replies: 14
Views: 196

Re: Happy Vietnam Veterans Day

FRJ, I was there at almost the exact times you were, came home Aug.1 5th B,16th Arty, 4th Inf Div. 155 Howitzers Couple months with the 5th/22nd of Americal. 175 guns and 8" howitzers. Today is Viet vet appreciation day at the legion for a free drink, tomorrow is vets appreciation day for food ...
by robpa
Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:33 pm
Forum: In The Kitchen
Topic: McAlevy custom cleaver
Replies: 4
Views: 214

Re: McAlevy custom cleaver

My gr father owned a butcher shop. I worked there a couple days a week in the summer when school was out. I have limited experience with the Cleavers but used them some. my main job involved boning knives. He had a huge azz beef splitter(giant cleaver) on the wall which I never saw him use but did s...
by robpa
Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:26 pm
Forum: Custom Knives
Topic: Handmade Teardrop Wharncliffe sipjoint
Replies: 6
Views: 196

Re: Handmade Teardrop Wharncliffe sipjoint

Thats a heck of a nice knife!
by robpa
Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:17 pm
Forum: Fixed Blade Knives
Topic: Show off your fixed blades!
Replies: 5458
Views: 582837

Re: Show off your fixed blades!

Dont think Ive ever posted this cattaragus before. I keep thinking of trading it off b ut the longer I have it the more I like it. Has a 41/2 " blade. Any body have any info on it?
by robpa
Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:29 pm
Forum: General Knife Discussion
Topic: Barlows does anyone else love them
Replies: 1111
Views: 107076

Re: Barlows does anyone else love them

A couple GEC #14s. stag and bone.
by robpa
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:36 pm
Forum: Buck Knife Collector's Forum
Topic: Bucks and guns
Replies: 24
Views: 600

Re: Bucks and guns

For my brother...3 screw Blackhawk with a couple 110s and a Colt Anaconda w a couple 112s.
by robpa
Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:06 pm
Forum: General Off Topic Discussion
Topic: Who's Fishn'
Replies: 19
Views: 322

Re: Who's Fishn'

Couple 10-12" bass, about 15 blue gills/ sunfish a 10" crappie. in the pond about 40 feet outside my door! Worms mostly. Lots of good lakes within 30 miles or so but No nore boat.
by robpa
Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:52 pm
Forum: General Off Topic Discussion
Topic: Chitting potatoes
Replies: 5
Views: 183

Re: Chitting potatoes

I grew lots of potatoes when market gardening. Usually 5- 6 varieties. I usually cut the larger spuds leaving about 3 eyes per piece. they dont have to be cut but its best to let them air dry a couple days to scab over before planting. I dont chit much now days, just chuck em, cover and hill twice a...
by robpa
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:22 pm
Forum: General Knife Discussion
Topic: Maple Syrup time for 2024
Replies: 39
Views: 533

Re: Maple Syrup time for 2024

HaHaHa!! Johnny Mulligan!! Now there is a bonifide hoot!. He lives a mile up the road from me. Ive had some of his "syrup". its a real Mulligans stew. Smoky, dirty and down right bot good. I could tell stories all day about that guy, but I kinda like him??? No, it was another sorta charact...
by robpa
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:19 pm
Forum: General Knife Discussion
Topic: Maple Syrup time for 2024
Replies: 39
Views: 533

Re: Maple Syrup time for 2024

You can tap in the south, its actually becoming more popular. Sap runs up in trees, probably not as strong a runs as up here. Small scale boiling in the kitchen can be a messy thing, That I know for sure!. Last time we did it we used a propane turkey cooker . Last time a buddy and I tried it we had ...
by robpa
Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:40 pm
Forum: Knife Related Q&A
Topic: Winchester 1920
Replies: 8
Views: 324

Re: Winchester 1920

Bluegrass(Queen) did make them in peachseed but they dont look like this knife. I dont have this knife but have others in peachseed.
by robpa
Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:26 pm
Forum: In The Kitchen
Topic: McAlevy custom cleaver
Replies: 4
Views: 214

Re: McAlevy custom cleaver

Good ergonomics, havent cut more than paper so far but intend to spatchcock a chicken soon.
by robpa
Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: General Knife Discussion
Topic: Business cards
Replies: 9
Views: 296

Re: Business cards

Nice, like the radiused corners too. They dont get bent up.
any body else got cards?
by robpa
Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:57 pm
Forum: Fixed Blade Knives
Topic: Bird and Trout, CASE, etc. show them
Replies: 65
Views: 34808

Re: Bird and Trout, CASE, etc. show them

Like the little seki B&T.
I guess the bird & trouts are my favorites. Gonna pick up 4 new in box original Queens and a Queen City 1st of April. The guy has 2 of each, new in box!!
by robpa
Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:22 pm
Forum: General Off Topic Discussion
Topic: What Else Do You Collect Besides Knives?
Replies: 571
Views: 62270

Re: What Else Do You Collect Besides Knives?

I like to breed and fly pigeons. Top to bottom are baldhead and cream bar Birmingham rollers. They circle above the loft and do really fast backward spins. Next are iraqui reds, they are used in pigeon wars , when ya see a neighbors pigeons out flying you go release a bunch of yours and hope they lu...
by robpa
Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:20 pm
Forum: In The Kitchen
Topic: McAlevy custom cleaver
Replies: 4
Views: 214

McAlevy custom cleaver

My new cleaver by Matt McAlevy. Ironwood handle with burl maple and raindrop damascus blade. May will bring its chefs knife mate.
by robpa
Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:00 pm
Forum: General Knife Discussion
Topic: Matchng Pairs
Replies: 1917
Views: 244158

Re: Matchng Pairs

Pair of Schatt baby toothpicks MOP & Black lip
by robpa
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:49 pm
Forum: General Knife Discussion
Topic: Lets see some stag
Replies: 1210
Views: 132768

Re: Lets see some stag

A few stag. Mostly Queen made with a couple GEC and an AKC.and a Case
by robpa
Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:27 pm
Forum: AAPK Member Store Forums
Topic: Additional knife brands to add to the store brand searches
Replies: 4
Views: 163

Re: Additional knife brands to add to the store brand searches

Id like to see a seperation of original Queens and faux Queens. I kinda quit looking on ebay due to so many unqueen Queens.
by robpa
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:51 pm
Forum: Fixed Blade Knives
Topic: a couple matt Mcalevy customs
Replies: 19
Views: 1767

Re: a couple matt Mcalevy customs

not Matt but, yes the gents knife is taken from the Moki Kronos and the fishtail is robbed from a Winchester fishtail. I took those knives to matt and asked him to clone them into a fixed blade. He has done several projects for me so far I think he did a bang up job. Check out new pickups thread for...
by robpa
Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:17 pm
Forum: General Knife Discussion
Topic: Mail Call !-Post your new pick-ups here............
Replies: 33514
Views: 1869242

Re: Mail Call !-Post your new pick-ups here............

Thanks to Matt. I just couldnt get that steel to look good in any photo and it deserves to look good! Raindrop damaskus with ironwood handles and some spalted maple from Matts wood lot that he had stabilized. I really like this piece. Next is gonna be a chef knife to match.

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