All About Pocket Knives

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:54 pm
bighomer, You have a very impressive array.

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:38 pm Took a group photo of mine recently. First real knife pattern that I owned. Had a couple shell handle knives and a pen before Dad gave me one of his old barlows.

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:38 pm Took a group photo of mine recently. First real knife pattern that I owned. Had a couple shell handle knives and a pen before Dad gave me one of his old barlows.

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:38 pm Took a group photo of mine recently. First real knife pattern that I owned. Had a couple shell handle knives and a pen before Dad gave me one of his old barlows.

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 8:34 pm Mark, I think you are probably right. I went back over the Bear Barlow and it is a decent, very serviceable, knife. Its not a standout in walk & talk but its okay. F&F quite good.

Ivoryman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:37 pm

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:38 pm Took a group photo of mine recently. First real knife pattern that I owned. Had a couple shell handle knives and a pen before Dad gave me one of his old barlows.

Great group shot and what a stash. Which one came from dad if you still have it? Great to see them spread out like that

cudgee wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:51 pm

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:38 pm Took a group photo of mine recently. First real knife pattern that I owned. Had a couple shell handle knives and a pen before Dad gave me one of his old barlows.

So your dad is to blame for your addiction.

bighomer wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2020 1:44 am

Ivoryman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:37 pm

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:38 pm Took a group photo of mine recently. First real knife pattern that I owned. Had a couple shell handle knives and a pen before Dad gave me one of his old barlows.

Great group shot and what a stash. Which one came from dad if you still have it? Great to see them spread out like that

cudgee wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:51 pm

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:38 pm Took a group photo of mine recently. First real knife pattern that I owned. Had a couple shell handle knives and a pen before Dad gave me one of his old barlows.

So your dad is to blame for your addiction.

My Dad and his Dad appreciated a good pocket knife and both had several knives, although the thought of collecting knives would probably be foreign to them.
My older brother (10 years older)was a knife lover as well and my hero. But I actually started collecting knives when I got out of the service and went back to my job.
Everyone toted a pocket knife and a couple of buddies and I got to buying German made knives wholesale and selling them at work and to friends . Got to trading and that led to my collecting. I had a small collection of around 30 knives ,that included knives that dad had given me, my granddad's Queen congress and his old Cattaraugus barlow. I had a house fire that destroyed that collection, after that I said I'd never collect anything again.
Now I always had a few knives around and toted one every day and then my wife started "flea marketing" she'd go to yard sales and auctions buy "stuff" then resale it at the farmers market/ flea market in Nashville, she'd pick up a ole pocket knife at yard sale now and then and I'd generally take it off her hands, got to trading knives again mostly at work and one thing led to another, and I became the accumulater/ hoarder you see today.
I-man sadly I let a older classmate beat me out of that knife, still a sore spot today.

bighomer wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2020 1:44 am

Ivoryman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:37 pm

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:38 pm Took a group photo of mine recently. First real knife pattern that I owned. Had a couple shell handle knives and a pen before Dad gave me one of his old barlows.

Great group shot and what a stash. Which one came from dad if you still have it? Great to see them spread out like that

cudgee wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 7:51 pm

bighomer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:38 pm Took a group photo of mine recently. First real knife pattern that I owned. Had a couple shell handle knives and a pen before Dad gave me one of his old barlows.

So your dad is to blame for your addiction.

My Dad and his Dad appreciated a good pocket knife and both had several knives, although the thought of collecting knives would probably be foreign to them.
My older brother (10 years older)was a knife lover as well and my hero. But I actually started collecting knives when I got out of the service and went back to my job.
Everyone toted a pocket knife and a couple of buddies and I got to buying German made knives wholesale and selling them at work and to friends . Got to trading and that led to my collecting. I had a small collection of around 30 knives ,that included knives that dad had given me, my granddad's Queen congress and his old Cattaraugus barlow. I had a house fire that destroyed that collection, after that I said I'd never collect anything again.
Now I always had a few knives around and toted one every day and then my wife started "flea marketing" she'd go to yard sales and auctions buy "stuff" then resale it at the farmers market/ flea market in Nashville, she'd pick up a ole pocket knife at yard sale now and then and I'd generally take it off her hands, got to trading knives again mostly at work and one thing led to another, and I became the accumulater/ hoarder you see today.
I-man sadly I let a older classmate beat me out of that knife, still a sore spot today.