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Was having a nice chat with MOGC and asked him this question. He mentioned that it would make for an interesting, and informative thread. I agreed.
I’ve only had two custom knives made since I fell down this hole, so I have nothing really to add in that regard, but I am waiting on two more.
Love to hear what your answers would be.
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An old time blacksmith made some primitive knives for me back in 2016 and 2017. I gave a couple of them away, but kept a Kephart and a Canada Belt Knife style that he made for me. They aren't as pretty as a Howe, Ingram, or Winston, but they hold an edge and do the job when called upon.
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Don't have a lot, only four customs, a couple antique English Bowie's, never sold any. I enjoy carrying a different belt knife every time I hunt. For me folding knives are pocket knives, and hunting knives are fixed blade. When my brother and I were old enough to go deer hunting, we went with our father and two of his friends , and the son of one of them. Both my fathers friends were vets that had walked across Europe in WW2, and both carried big knives, a big Cattaragus, and a Pal, looked like a Kabar, and that planted the seed. I inherited a Cattaragus from my FIL, and have a couple big Brownings, and a big Buck.
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No knives with real continental value.
I do have a few i wouldn’t part with....
Couple of Rick’s knives marked “PROTO”
Winston’s Ingram’s
Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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any of mine are for sale at the right price. I am old, not that able to get out, and can't take 'em with me
Sam......
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Every knife I own can be bought.
What if Jessie's girl is Stacy's mom, and her phone number is 867-5309
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i have my Grand father's Keen Kutter barlow that I treasure.
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I have 5 I'd not part with. Bottom knife is my Dad's Case bought in 1966. It bounced around the ranch for 40 years. No way to know how much meat it's cut. Top knife is a 1981 Buck 110. Last year of the "Woodpecker Lips" hard 440C. I was down in Boise visiting my girlfriend when some scum sucking POS broke into my truck and stole the Randall Model 8 I'd received as my graduation present. I needed a knife so bought this one at a local Army/Navy store. It's been with me through a lot. Third one is the Randall Model 11-3 (in the middle) that little gal I was seeing in Boise bought me as an anniversary present a couple decades later to replace the one that was stolen at her place right before we wed.
You can no more tell someone how to do something you've never done, than you can come back from somewhere you've never been...
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You can no more tell someone how to do something you've never done, than you can come back from somewhere you've never been...
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My all time favorite, it ain't going anywhere but hunting with me. Ingram Slim Hunter... Ingram B&T matches the Slim and does good work. The wife and kids gave me this one as a retirement gift. It's a keeper. Menefee Trapper is a keeper... Brett Dowell B&T has a home here... I need a skinner. Ingram Lite Semi...
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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I would never sell any knife gifted to me by relatives or my Personel used money-makers.NEVER my hunting knives....
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Not a never sell or one that got away but my grandpa’s Old Timer Barlow that he got from a Prince Albert promotion, still have it but broke both blades digging spent bullets out of a old highway post that was used as a backstop when I was a kid.
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Geez, got a pile of em. Hoping to make the kids/grandkids happy one day.👊🏻
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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Lotta nice blades right there brother, Grats!! 👊🏻
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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I have my Grandfather's old Schrade. He carried it for at least 40 years. Blade has been sharpened so many times it is thin and a half inch short. It is in a box with other momentos and one day will go to one of his great grandsons.
You get out of life what you are willing to accept. If you ain't happy, do something about it!
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Have to be the Uncle Henry i got for my 12th birthday. The one like a Buck 110. Used it for a number of years, until i started buying other knives to play with. Only one that means anything to me.
Got a Wyoming Knife from my wife for Christmas years ago. Not sure if it's the knife or me, don't really like it. Wouldn't be the last knife to go, but in the middle.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Back in '56 I acquired my first real hunting knife. A Kinfolks. My Mother asked "What does a 12 year old need with a knife like that. Well I still have it, but not used in many years.
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein
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I have two that I wouldn't sell (one that nobody would want anyway):
Number one is my only custom knife, a drop point hunter my wife gave me for Christmas two years ago. Made by Seth Borries, who was a "Forged in Fire" champion.
Second one is my dad's Western fixed blade hunter. He gave it to me in 1970. Had a broken retainer strap on the sheath, but I carried it, and soon lost the knife.
I never told Dad (his temper was legendary), but I looked for it for years, every time I went for a walk in the woods behind our house, where I assumed I'd lost it.
Fast forward to 2003. We were having a new septic system put in, and my young son told me he'd found a rusty old knife in the dirt pile. That was it!
After 33 years it was recognizable, but rusted beyond repair, and I'll never part with it.
I rewarded my boy with a new Buck Woodsman.
"No good deed shall go unpunished!"
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I sold my dad's USA made sharp finger because I never warmed up to it and I had a large box of knives I inherited and didnt use.
Thats the only one because I never really used it growing up and you won't find the USA made versions now.
Other than that, How was the show Mrs. Lincoln?
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