The Venerable Old Barlow

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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.
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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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Tony_Wood wrote:
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?
I will have some more tomorrow in the restoration forum. Still writing it up with more pics.
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OLDE CUTLER wrote:
Tony_Wood wrote:
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?
I will have some more tomorrow in the restoration forum. Still writing it up with more pics.
Thanks
Great! Thanks. I will look for that.
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JohnR wrote: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.

Great score! 8) ::tu:: I really like that Barlow.
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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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I would guess it gets razor sharp too.
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A couple of old Daddy's for review. A Hibbard and a Robeson with nice bolster stamps.
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Thanks to a friend my Barlow collection grew by 2 more ::tu:: next to my Camco you can see the size difference ::tu::
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Nice collection Paul, thanks for sharing.
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BWT wrote:Nice collection Paul, thanks for sharing.
::tu::
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Got some on display ::tu::
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Picked up 3 nice Queen steel frame Barlows over the last couple weeks, all in mint condition, the one arm blade Barlow is hard to find in steel and if I'm reading the tang stamp right dates from the 50's.
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Good lookin bunch of queens JohnR
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You had a good couple weeks, John, very nice!!!
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Darrell, Bill, Thank you very much.
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Nice.

I've never really understood the hump on the bolsters of Queen's regular Barlows.

Does it have something to do with pin placement?

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RobesonsRme.com wrote:Nice.

I've never really understood the hump on the bolsters of Queen's regular Barlows.

Does it have something to do with pin placement?

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I've wondered about that too, maybe they just wanted to be different, I will say that it something kind of nice to coonfinger or or be a worry object in the pocket. ::super_happy::
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