The Venerable Old Barlow

[Miller Bro's]

I'm waiting for the mailman.

Fran

My mailman has just arrived

Here are more Barlow knives

[Miller Bro's]

A couple more.........

[Another Knife Collector]

There's some great oldies there MILLER BROS!

[upnorth]

A real nice bunch of old timey ones Dimitri!!

Gotta go take some extra blood pressure meds! You are dangerous for my health old buddy!

[Just Plain Dave]

Either one of them I*XL knives look GREAT!

[Miller Bro's]

AKC & Dave,

Thanks

Gotta go take some extra blood pressure meds! You are dangerous for my health old buddy!

Charlie,

I better hold off posting any more pictures, till your blood pressure comes down!

[Owd Wullie]

Great Stoof D!!
I posted this in the I*XL thread, but it belongs here as well;
Got this little treasure off ebay the other day. The seller said it was her grandfather's knife. It's been well used and well taken care. The old man put a hair poppin sharp edge on it too.




Been carryin it for a week now. Never been a barlow fan, but I LIKE this one.

[Just Plain Dave]

I don't know how I missed that NONXXL (or XLL) in the first drooling!!!

[trail]

Owd Wullie posted some nice Colonials a while back. Here is another with a different handle color. I know these knives are about the cheapest things ever made in America, but even so the guys at work marvel over the snap of the blades and the workmanship in general. They don't make knives like this any more...

[trail]

We had a thread on this knife recently but I'd still like to put a shot on the Barlow thread since this is almost certainly the oldest Barlow most of us will ever see. As best we could figure, made by either Matthew or Luke Oates (I'll bet there were a Mark and John in the family as well), Sheffield England, late 1700s to early 1800s.

[basser5]

I found a few to show, have more in the basement ....somewhere?

[thawk]

A few barlow knives.

Ulster


Ulster 10OT and a Colonial


Imperial Mark Twain

[knife7knut]

Here's a few of mine:

A Case XX
An unusual Colonial Barlow with a screwdriver secondary blade.
A Kent
A Marx,"safety" Barlow made of rubber.
A couple of Case Daddy Barlows;one I notched because it is almost impossible to open otherwise.
A Russell Barlow with sheepfoot main blade.
A couple of Schrade 206's someone gave me awhile back as partial payment for some pinstriping work.
A Swan Works miniature Barlow.
A Tip Top Barlow with a bone handle on one side and a wood handle(probably a replacement)on the other.I have a couple other knives that look to have been made this way at the factory;possibly as a salesman's sample.I don't think this one is.

[gino]

I USED TO NEVER CARE FOR BARLOWS BUT I REALLY AM STARTIN TO DIG THEM NOW
those sure are some sweet ones

[ROOSTRTALE]

1st post here Barlow man myself . I really like the Ka bar dogs head . I got bit by the barlow bug when I got my first about age 10 , If you didn't carry a pocket knife to school back then some thing was wrong with you. I'm 50 now and I think I own about 100 most are One arm Patterns.

Great thread

[Owd Wullie]

1st post here Barlow man myself . I really like the Ka bar dogs head . I got bit by the barlow bug when I got my first about age 10 , If you didn't carry a pocket knife to school back then some thing was wrong with you. I'm 50 now and I think I own about 100 most are One arm Patterns.

Great thread

Welcome to the forums!

Dive in and have some fun.
Willie

[ROOSTRTALE]

Thanks ,This is some good stuff . And I think I need too oil my joints also Nice E bay find .

[Froggyedge]

The good old Barlow works just as well today as in the days of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer!
Great thread!

Roostrtale!

[gino]

Bought my first 2 barlows this weekend at the flea market.
Like I stated earlier in this thread I never cared for barlows but lately I have a liking for them .
I will post some photos after I take a good cleaning to these

kutmaster
Camillus

[orvet]

Here is a Schrade Barlow I got from Charlie at the OKCA show this last weekend.
A nice new 1985 dark green bone.

Thanks Charlie!

Dale

[Froggyedge]

gino,
My guess is that you will soon have more..!

orvet,
Nice one!

[woseyjales]

Dale, as you may know already
the Heritage barlow is one of my favorites.
I have an '83 2661G plus an SC506 greenbone meself.

Seems like a good time to ask this question since I haven't
been able to verify it on my own.
Somewhere I read or heard the Heritage 2661G was a 1983 only issue.
Supposedly red and brown were only 1983 colors carried over for 1984.
Then as I understand it Barlow replaced for 1985-86 by the 2331 Jack.
That sound correct or are some of my wires crossed?

Speaking of barlows, here's the 2010 cCc forum knife.
Quantity 165 made.
Smooth chestnut 62009 1/2.
With a clip and a spear I figure it should have been
stamped as a 62009 3/4

[Aimus Moses]

Wow Wosey! That 2010 cCc Barlow is the cat's meow. That would be a good seller if they would put it in production, well I'd buy several of them anyway. It would be the cherry on the top if it was offered in CV steel too. I really like that Barlow.

Aimus

[woseyjales]

Thank ye Aimus,
all the credit goes to Case and Koduck.
All I do is set 'em up and click the button.
NASA got chimps that can do that much.

I like the way you think, a cherry bone with CV.
Sounds like a weiner to me, I'll hafta throw that
in the Case suggestion box... w/ all due credit
given of course.

Here's one a bit older. Still not as antique as some prefer
but you (me) take what you can get.
1979 AppleLucy:

[upnorth]

Wosey, I like that cCc Barlow! I don't buy many new knives, but I am sorry I missed that one!!

Barlows with 2 large blades are hot stuff, IMO!
Ever since I saw an old sheffield one belonging to Tony Bose a couple years ago, with trapper blades in it, I've been looking for one!
I suggested it for the Bladeforums 2009 knife, and it got adopted, and is beautiful! Queen even put it in their own production. And now Case is on the bandwagon!
How did it get designed for cCc??