The Venerable Old Barlow
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Beautiful and interesting old knives. I'm not familiar with the marks.
Joe
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I've a few now,love barlows
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I am not able to answer your message I don't believe, as I am not a paid subscriber.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:
To keep the thread on track, here's a curious and well-loved Kutmaster advertising Barlow. I suspect it's a salesman's sample:
Tony
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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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Fantastic work. Turned out well. Do you have a showing blades?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 will have some more tomorrow in the restoration forum. Still writing it up with more pics.Tony_Wood wrote:Fantastic work. Turned out well. Do you have a showing blades?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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Great! Thanks. I will look for that.OLDE CUTLER wrote:I will have some more tomorrow in the restoration forum. Still writing it up with more pics.Tony_Wood wrote:Fantastic work. Turned out well. Do you have a showing blades?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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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! I really like that Barlow.
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I would guess it gets razor sharp too.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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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 next to my Camco you can see the size difference
Paul,
friendship is a rare and precious gift,
A day without a pocket knife is the day your need it,
friendship is a rare and precious gift,
A day without a pocket knife is the day your need it,
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BWT wrote:Nice collection Paul, thanks for sharing.
Paul,
friendship is a rare and precious gift,
A day without a pocket knife is the day your need it,
friendship is a rare and precious gift,
A day without a pocket knife is the day your need it,
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Got some on display
Paul,
friendship is a rare and precious gift,
A day without a pocket knife is the day your need it,
friendship is a rare and precious gift,
A day without a pocket knife is the day your need it,
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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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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?
Charlie Noyes
I've never really understood the hump on the bolsters of Queen's regular Barlows.
Does it have something to do with pin placement?
Charlie Noyes
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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.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?
Charlie Noyes