Your Traditional Knife of 2020

Now this is very cool. Excellent looking knife.

 

I’ve been carrying this 55 for about a year pretty steady. It was a gift from a member here and it’s my steady. It’s one of my all time favorites. I got the RR mini cotton sampler last year and began carrying it some too. It needs to be sharpened though. Maybe I’ll get it squared away tomorrow.

 

I've bought quite a few knives this year, with most of them being acquired with the intent of finding "the one". Several of them are high on my list of great knives, but, surprisingly, the one that gives me the biggest grin to "pocket" is this Case red bone humpback half whittler. It is just a great size, and has two very "usable" blades. A clip main, and a pen secondary. It has also surprised me that I care not a whit that it is the TruSharp steel, and not the CV. So far it has held a screaming sharp edge, with no touch-ups needed. The build quality is most excellent. I can find no flaws in it at all. The blades are swedged, both sides on the clip, and one side on the secondary.
Adding to the "grin" factor is the price was just about half what a comparable GEC would be. (I got it 'used')
It's rapidly becoming the go-to knife when I'm trying to decide which will occupy the front right pocket. This one is my surprise KOTY for 2020....

 

This 74 has been in my pocket since I received it. This is my first stag (that I can remember) and definitely won’t be my last.

 

Just so I understand, what is the cut off for when we acquired the knife in 2020?

Like, a month or two I acquired a mod opinel carbon 8 which would otherwise be a contender. Shortly before that I picked up a Cowboy from Horsewright which would also otherwise qualify as favorite 2020 knife. But what really takes the cake is the JK I recieved as part of JK's secret Santa thing.

So just wondering what the specific cut of? Apologies if you covered this already and I miss it.

 

appreciate your feedback Jack Black

 

Jack,

Those guys riding a bike and selling onions in Great Brittain were not only French, they were Breton, and not only Breton , they were Leonad, from the Leon country, the north of the very very western part of Brittany. Don't confuse! I'm native from this area and we are known to be proud and susceptive about our origins. The British nicknamed them "Johnnies" probably because the breton first name "Yannig" was very common. Most of them spoke better english than french.



And now i'm homesick.

Dan.

 

For me, I may be picking low on the creativity scale, but it's got to be this years Forum Traditional. I don't think it's that the Viper Swayback is so Uber spectacular or technically advanced. But just a good combination of modern to traditional to good combination of components.

For me, it was simply the nicest traditional that I had purchased all year.....so, Bing Bing....we have a winner.



Mines the Brunette. My boy got the Blondie.

 

Jack,

You are forgiven. If you have the chance, take the ferry boat from Plymouth to Roscoff. You will see there a country which is as beautiful as the north west of Ireland or the Hebrid islands are. Do it before turism has done destroying everything.

Dan.

 

Last Christmas I gifted my father a Buck 303 Cadet, because he wanted a multi bladed knife. He loved it and carried it everyday until he died in a fishing accident in the start of April.

The doctors found the Buck I gifted him in his pocket when they emptied them, and gave it back to me, and it haven’t left my pocket since. I had it in my pocket when I carried him out of the church and when I lovered him into the ground. I had it in my pocket when, earlier this year, I found out that I myself, is going to be a father.

This will be my first Christmas without him, but guess what’s gonna be in my pocket, reminding me of him and keeping his spirit alive... You guessed it.

 

Thanks Jack! I've had a crazy year in 2020 but I keep rowing the boat hard and it's moving in the right direction now.

 

"There are suddenly in this town many onion sellers appearing!" (First episode of 'Allo 'Allo)