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well used Boker Barlow
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:03 pm
by treefarmer
What do y'all think this knife was used for? The main blade, a razor shape, is sharpened from the mark side only, a concave shape with a chisel grind.

The secondary pen hasn't been touched, that makes me think it was used for something other than regular pocketknife use.
The walk and talk is great with half stops.
Any comments?

- Compare the wear

- chisel ground from mark side, almost perfect arc.
Treefarmer
Re: well used Boker Barlow
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:35 pm
by ScoutKnives
My crystal ball is saying it was used to cut rope or twine

Re: well used Boker Barlow
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:42 pm
by FRJ
I think the arch is irrelevant and likely caused from sharpening on a grinder.
Someone didn't have time for the fofora of a double bevel and if you sharpen it that way it will cut that way.

Re: well used Boker Barlow
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:51 pm
by herbva
Grinder abuse. Reminds me of how my grandfather taught me how to sharpen knives using the concrete curb on the street where they lived.

Re: well used Boker Barlow
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 12:23 am
by Ridgegrass
Looks like someone cut his way out of Alcatraz! J.O'.
Re: well used Boker Barlow
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:00 pm
by tallguy606
Our local pawnshop had a whole pile of once-nice old knives, but someone used a grinder on every last one of them, every blade, until they were just ribbons like this one. Unbelievable abuse.