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- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:57 am
- Forum: In The Kitchen
- Topic: Sabatier-style chef’s knife type preferences
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3451
Re: Sabatier-style chef’s knife type preferences
FRJ: A belated comment on the knives you pictured above: You definitely have the right tools for the job, and I appreciate hearing of your favorites and why. Let's face it: These knives of ours are generally not "safe queens"; they are the knives we revel in using. They do, however, have t...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:50 pm
- Forum: Veteran’s Forum
- Topic: Happy Vietnam Veterans Day
- Replies: 14
- Views: 342
Re: Happy Vietnam Veterans Dayw
Thank you all for your service.
I was not there. My brother was. I'm just the family archivist.
I was not there. My brother was. I'm just the family archivist.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: General Knife Discussion
- Topic: Brass corrosion
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4946
Re: Brass corrosion
Mumbleypeg: Thanks for your summation of what you have found protects mint carbon steel knives for as much as over a 50-year period of storage. Beginning about 25 years ago, since I could not obtain the camellia oil recommended by Bernard Levine in his KNIFE GUIDE editions, I have used LA-CO-brand m...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: General Knife Discussion
- Topic: NCCA show Sunday March 17th
- Replies: 10
- Views: 319
NCCA show Sunday March 17th
The next Northeast Cutlery Collectors Association show will be held in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, which is a more convenient drive for those coming from States South and West of Massachusetts, than some of the recent Massachusetts NCCA show venues. And, from any direction, it is right off of the sup...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:30 pm
- Forum: General Off Topic Discussion
- Topic: advice on bird call app.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 248
Re: advice on bird call app.
thanks again, doglegg. She has it working now. It identifies the bird so instantaneously.
I did fool it with my, "who cooks....who cooks.. for you", Barred Owl imitation.
I did fool it with my, "who cooks....who cooks.. for you", Barred Owl imitation.
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:57 am
- Forum: General Off Topic Discussion
- Topic: advice on bird call app.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 248
Re: advice on bird call app.
Thanks, Dogleg.
We got it downloaded, and now have to try it out.
We got it downloaded, and now have to try it out.
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 9:50 pm
- Forum: General Off Topic Discussion
- Topic: advice on bird call app.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 248
advice on bird call app.
If any birders would recommend a good (or the best) bird call app. I would appreciate hearing of it. Neither my significant other nor I know much about I-'phones. She just got one, I staying with the flip-'phone.
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:23 pm
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: Terrier Cutlery Company
- Replies: 385
- Views: 89557
Re: Terrier Cutlery Company
Yeah. Terrier cleaver. Who knew that they existed at all.
Deep stamped, too.
Deep stamped, too.
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 7:29 am
- Forum: General Knife Discussion
- Topic: Old Imperial knife
- Replies: 8
- Views: 399
Re: Old Imperial knife
Good that you spied that apparent rust spot, Mumbleypeg.
Isolating incipient out-gassers can save the perfectly stable knives in ones collection.
Isolating incipient out-gassers can save the perfectly stable knives in ones collection.
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 11:37 pm
- Forum: General Knife Discussion
- Topic: Venue change for Knife Show in Massachusetts
- Replies: 2
- Views: 181
Venue change for Knife Show in Massachusetts
Being a Member of the NCCA I received this email yesterday about our up-coming November show: Fellow NCCA [Northeast Cutlery Collectors Association] Members: Please be advised the NCCA will no longer hold the one day shows at the Marlboro Holiday Inn and Suites location. The NCCA has been shut out f...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 6:56 pm
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: John Primble Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Co. 1940-1968
- Replies: 37
- Views: 8629
Re: John Primble Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Co. 1940-1968
A very worthy knife for a repair, with no pressure to render it high condition or a charlatan in any sense, but rather to return it to respectability, remain usable, and interesting, too. An epoxy fill-in would probably work, without getting fancy. For one, I have never known anyone who has carried ...
- Fri Sep 15, 2023 10:28 am
- Forum: General Knife Discussion
- Topic: GRIFFON SCISSORS
- Replies: 3
- Views: 268
Re: GRIFFON SCISSORS
I am not a scissors collector, but your Griffon pair is interesting to see and to learn were produced. I do enjoy using the vintage scissors that I have inherited; they appear to be forged and not stamped, and with better fit and finish, compared with more modern scissors in the house. . Thank you f...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 4:29 am
- Forum: General Off Topic Discussion
- Topic: Jimmy Buffet dies
- Replies: 10
- Views: 250
Re: Jimmy Buffet dies
An active outdoorsman, the man was having a new custom sportfishing boat built at Merritt Boat & Engine Works, in Pompano Beach, Florida. There's a lesson in this for us all that Death can come "like a thief in the night". There was an appealing humility about the entertainer and billi...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 8:26 pm
- Forum: General Off Topic Discussion
- Topic: Old Fishing Gear
- Replies: 32
- Views: 987
Re: Old Fishing Gear
Nice collections displayed on this thread. Ridgegrass: That's very special that you have your original reel. I have plenty of old ones, but my original spinning reel was retained as a corroded relic for many years into adulthood, regrettably not cared for as yours was. Although I still fish, and in ...
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:23 pm
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: Holley Mfg. Co., Lakeville, Conn.
- Replies: 180
- Views: 33371
Re: Holley Mfg. Co., Lakeville, Conn.
Very thoughtful post, Ridgegrass. inspired by that very nice curved jack. I tend to agree that, as with most collected artifacts today, there was little expectation by the cutlers of the future avidity of collectors, that clubs would form, and big money would eventually be paid for rare or mint exam...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 9:51 am
- Forum: General Knife Discussion
- Topic: Celluloid Knife Handle Deterioration (Out Gassing) STOP the Madness!!!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1185
Re: Celluloid Knife Handle Deterioration (Out Gassing) STOP the Madness!!!
Does that mean, not only should we store our celluloid knives separate from the non-celluloid knives, but we should store the celluloid one's separate from each other?
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 5:39 pm
- Forum: General Knife Discussion
- Topic: boatswain's knife 1827
- Replies: 25
- Views: 693
Re: boatswain's knife 1827
A marlinspike is as useful today for the mariner as it was in olden times. It is not to be viewed as a quaint tool. Any mariner of today has to do a considerable amount of rope splicing, which is the primary use of a marlinspike, and not for the un-tying knots in rope (although it will aid in that t...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:51 pm
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: Old HIBBARD, SPENCER & BARTLET---OVB---Knives
- Replies: 337
- Views: 74038
Re: Old HIBBARD, SPENCER & BARTLET---OVB---Knives
Let me pile on the praise, John R. She's a beaut.
Any guesses on what factory produced that OVB?
Any guesses on what factory produced that OVB?
- Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:53 pm
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: new york knife co
- Replies: 813
- Views: 119298
Re: new york knife co
Riggegrass, you got it.
Odd Fellows symbol: Friendship, Love, and Truth.
Odd Fellows symbol: Friendship, Love, and Truth.
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 4:29 am
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: Union Stock Yards knives
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1295
Re: Union Stock Yards knives
Benjamin William Chon (1863-1952) “Benjamin Chon, the little man in the gray business suit and the blue yachting cap, and with the carnival pitchman's mesmerizing voice, was for more than half a century almost as much of a Chicago institution as the Stock Yards themselves. "Quality, sir?" ...
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 3:26 am
- Forum: General Knife Discussion
- Topic: Blade etch mystery
- Replies: 3
- Views: 293
Re: Blade etch mystery
four minutes later and Mumbleypeg has it nailed down.
- Thu Apr 20, 2023 4:21 am
- Forum: Boker Knife Collector's Forum
- Topic: H. Dorwal Knives
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6629
Re: H. Dorwal Knives
I like that one. Looks mint and beefy.
What is the length?
What is the length?
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 11:10 am
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: The All Scout Knives Thread
- Replies: 3575
- Views: 390479
Re: The All Scout Knives Thread
Here is photo of an Ulster scout knife being offered for sale. Looks like synthetic handle covers to me. Seller says "slick" in spite of blade darkening. I suppose he means that it has flawless operations; that is, good "walk and talk". I am not a potential buyer. Just curious an...
- Sun Mar 05, 2023 4:09 am
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: new york knife co
- Replies: 813
- Views: 119298
Re: new york knife co
A beautifully composed pair of exceptional knives.
- Fri Mar 03, 2023 4:43 am
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: The "HATCH" cutlery company
- Replies: 68
- Views: 14800
Re: The "HATCH" cutlery company
These Hatch tang stamps, posted earlier, have a very pleasing look. They appear to me more finished, more detailed, than most found on quality vintage knives.