The Venerable Old Barlow

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Enjoying browsing through all the Barlows fellas, real nice variety you all are showing !
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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY FELLOW BARLOW COLLECTORS MAY WE ALL FIND ONE WE DON'T HAVE
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Merry Christmas Darrell And all. Here is a few recents that haven’t made the picture show. Some of them you pointed out to me.
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Parker Cut. Co. smooth natural bone Baby Barlow with Moose scrimshaw.
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Here's a few recent additions
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RockmanO, That is a fine array of barlows. Congrats! ::tu::
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Really nice collection Rob, thanks for sharing, I can't even pick out a favorite.
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QTCut5 wrote:Parker Cut. Co. smooth natural bone Baby Barlow with Moose scrimshaw.

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Very nice Q!!!
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BWT wrote:Really nice collection Rob, thanks for sharing, I can't even pick out a favorite.
Thanks Bill! I need to post a few pics of the rest of my small barlow collection ::tu::
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Quick Steel wrote:RockmanO, That is a fine array of barlows. Congrats! ::tu::
Thanks Quick Steel! ::tu::
Regards,
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Really nice collection and variety among makers Rob ::tu:: ::tu:: ...
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LongBlade wrote:Really nice collection and variety among makers Rob ::tu:: ::tu:: ...
Thanks Lee, I enjoy adding examples from as many makers as I can find and afford ::tu::
Regards,
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Hello Rob looking good on the barlows. It is a never ending task to find all the makers. you will soon want to find all blade styles with each brand, clip, razor, spey, sheepfoot & spear blades. It never ends but the hunt is fun and addicting.
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DARRELL MAINES wrote:Hello Rob looking good on the barlows. It is a never ending task to find all the makers. you will soon want to find all blade styles with each brand, clip, razor, spey, sheepfoot & spear blades. It never ends but the hunt is fun and addicting.
Haha, I know you are right, I already have 2 Ulster and 2 keen kutter with different blade styles. It's a great hobby ::tu:: ::tu::
Thanks for your comments Darrell
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Couple old men
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Beautiful and interesting old knives. I'm not familiar with the marks.
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Nice, I really like the Furness, thanks for sharing.
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I've a few now,love barlows ::tu::
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DARRELL MAINES wrote:Hello Rob looking good on the barlows. It is a never ending task to find all the makers. you will soon want to find all blade styles with each brand, clip, razor, spey, sheepfoot & spear blades. It never ends but the hunt is fun and addicting.
I am not able to answer your message I don't believe, as I am not a paid subscriber.
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As far as I'm aware there is no restriction on messages for non-premium accounts. Bryan, has that changed?

To keep the thread on track, here's a curious and well-loved Kutmaster advertising Barlow. I suspect it's a salesman's sample:
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Picked up this Matthew Furness this week, unusual in that it has had little use and still shows original grind marks on blades and bolsters. Seller stated that it had been found in the wall of a fallen down cabin in PA. Not marked England, thinking this one is 1860's to 1880's.
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Really cool, I like the story as much if not more than the knife
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Great looking ole knife and great story to boot. If only it could tell you the rest of the story!!!
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This is an Imperial shell handled Barlow that I just finished customizing just for the "halibut". Used the blades and springs from the original, made new liners, bolsters, elk stag rehandle. I went with kind of a "faceted" bolster look with domed pivot pin. Am now toting it in my pocket.
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OLDE CUTLER wrote:This is an Imperial shell handled Barlow that I just finished customizing just for the "halibut". Used the blades and springs from the original, made new liners, bolsters, elk stag rehandle. I went with kind of a "faceted" bolster look with domed pivot pin. Am now toting it in my pocket.
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Fantastic work. Turned out well. Do you have a showing blades?
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