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Jerry in SC
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I have the two jigged bone and the ebony spears. I bought most of mine from Mike Latham. I have a two blade Cripple Creek 14 in elderberry that's pretty nice, but none of the barlows.
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I have the two jigged bone and the ebony spears. I bought most of mine from Mike Latham. I have a two blade Cripple Creek 14 in elderberry that's pretty nice, but none of the barlows.
Educate me - what is a "slip joint' knife? I always thought of these as a simple folder or folding knife.
Generally speaking, "slip joint" refers to a non-locking folding knife whose blade is held in position by a backspring.
In other words, the pocket knives we old farts grew up with.
OK, Frailer educated me on "slip joint" (Thanks!) so now I can play. A few years ago I found these among my grandfather's stuff wrapped in a 1938 newspaper.
zodraz
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Could be!
I did the same with my dad except it was a loaded round.
Might be? I figger you can have an intervention, or open a museum, your choice!
That's impressive - are there duplicates, or is each one unique?
JSticks
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I'm partial this one because I made it. 
Might be? I figger you can have an intervention, or open a museum, your choice!
That's impressive - are there duplicates, or is each one unique?
Didn't show the several tubs of less desirable or duplicates I have under the bed. And we wont even talk about my fixed blades. My wife said I was 40 years past having an intervention and since I don't have enough friends to have one anyhow. Many rare, most from the 1950's and earlier, one or 2 that are one of a kind, a few have been photographed and added to some books. It is all my wife's fault anyhow. Before her, I collected beautiful women. She made me get rid of that collection.
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When I was a kid about 12-13 yrs old, I had a friend whose dad made pocketknives. I'm still pretty amazed by that skill. He had a big metal box full of them from pretty normal looking to some wild designs. He would let us get the box out and dig around in it time to time.
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THE PILGRIM
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Here's my GE Texian Toothpick.
absolutevil
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Hey Ferider, what's the knife second from right on that last picture? I kind of like that!
Until I joined Bladeforums a dozen years ago, a slip joint was the joint in a common pair of pliers that allowed you to open the jaws farther. Oh Bladeforums, there was an ongoing discussion about what to call traditional folding knives, the ones I referred to as "jackknives". That was where I first encountered "slipjoint" applied to knives. Because I came in in the middle of the discussion, I have no idea if the application was in wider use before then. In any case, I felt "slipjoint" is a misnomer as applied to knives. However, nobody suggested a better term, and it has stuck.
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Jerry in SC
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The Case is pre 1940 maybe a lot older. The Sears was likely made by Utica, fifties maybe. Very nice old Cattaraugus Barlow pattern, is there a pattern number stamp on the other side (called the pile side) of the blade?
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