Thanks Thomas

I decided to purchase a set [ one each ] of Boy and Girl Scout folding knives, in the best condition I could afford. Well, mission accomplished. I'll try post some pictures when I get them taken. Any other members collect, Scout Knives?

Well, thanks Ron. They are both in Great condition and Vintage. The prices, I paid, for this condition knives, I made a killing or at least a wounding....lol  I'm talking, they look like new, Brand new. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think, the last time they were made was the 1960's. Check them out when I get them on...Thanks. 

Scout knifes are sort of "meh" too me,  I don't get the big deal.  I mean seriously. how many scout knives does a person really need to have!

I mean really!

Or were you talking Official and licensed  Boy Scout knives?

(this is an old picture)

Wow, Great collection, I see the two I just bought. The Girl Scout is second from the right, on the second row. The Boy Scout is [ I think ] the third from the top on the right side. [ second picture ] I have to hide the girl scout from my youngest Grand Daughter.....lol

here's my two new scouts.

Both of these scouts are near mint. The Scout champ has to be Tobias, with a wall full. Really, a wall full. The Boy Scout, I have there, sure looks like a Moose pattern to me. This pattern in a Boy Scout, seems to be well sought after. I am not sure of it's history.

What year?  If it was from 1998 might be an NCAA Champ.  They have been Division Champs on several occasions.  Otherwise it might just be a consolation prize from a Tennessee company that is tired of getting its butt whopped by Alabama.  LOL

Hi Ivars and Toby, Taylor Brands, LLC of Kingsport, Tennessee, was founded by Taylor Stewart in 1975 and currently offers Schrade, Old Timer, and Smith and Wesson brands.  Taylor Brands released at least 2 bicentennial sunfish knives 1776 - 1996, one with a Kentucky and the other with a Tennessee shield,  made to celebrate USA's 200th birthday. They were manufactured in Japan.  Tennessee earned the nickname of the Volunteer State for the large number of Tennesseans that volunteered for the War of 1812 with Great Britain. The University of Tennessee adopted the Volunteer nickname for their school.  Although Tennessee Vol football currently trails in the series with Alabama (49-38 with 7 ties), hope runs hard and eternal each fall for the Big Orange (Tennessee) and it's mascot the blue tick coon hound Smokey to tree the Crimson Tide's Elephants.  Tennessee has 6 National Football Championships and Alabama has 15.  P.S. As an alumni of Tennessee I do bleed orange when I'm not careful with the blades LOL.

Great info, Bill. I'm a LSU Tiger fan....lol  Purple and Gold blood here.

Ivars, can you give us a better picture of the blade etch?  Or tell us exactly what it says?

Tobias, Roll Tide!!

Bill, as a Vanderbilt alumni, I couldn't help but celebrate when Vanderbilt's football team blew out both Tennessee and Auburn this past football season and won nine games!!  (As a Vanderbilt football fan, you have to celebrate when you can!)

Charles, the Gold and Black has a long storied history and seem to be coming back strong.  And Robert, Ol' Smokey has to be fast and tricky to survive a visit with the Bengal Tiger in Death Valley. LOL 

Never see this sunfish sort of many different brand names....

Ivars

1976 was the bicentennial of the signing of our Declaration of Independence from England on July 4, 1776.  So that series of knives was apparently issued in 1976 as a commemorative of the bicentennial.  Tennessee and Kentucky are two of the 50 states that make up our country.  So there might be 48 other knives in that series.

Oh yeah!  Well I graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago -  They didn't have a football team.  So I went to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for graduate school!  They didn't have a football team either (although they have people in uniforms getting trounced by schools that do have football teams!  

And now that they got rid of Chief Illiniwek, they can stop calling me for donations! Go ARMY! (who could also use a football team)

Bring back the Chief!

Very true Ivars.

All the teams are winners, to me. If they play hard and don't give up, they are winners. They can be out classed, under sized and hurt. If they have heart, they are winners.

  Poor Ivars is talking about a knife and we are talking football. It must be in the air...lol

I am thinking about starting a Mini Group for Barlows. Large and small, and of every brand. What do ya'll think? Is there some Barlow collectors out there?

Hey, I gonna mail your package, Monday.

Sounds good Robert, I have 7-8 Barlows.

I've got perhaps 5 or 6.  Just bought a Rough Rider Grand Daddy  Sawcut Bone on a whim yesterday.  Without a doubt, I like the Grand Daddy best. It is my trapper alternative!

I prefer the Grand Daddy Barlow pattern too but I also like the small ones. The small ones are a good size to take fishing, cutting string or making a sandwich.

Those small regular Barlows have been around for so long, we had twin daughters and I got them each a Barlow for their first knife. Still have them. To say nothing of the Russell Barlows you bought at the grocery off a card. Yes, they are a definite item in knife collecting.

The first knife I ever saw my Grand Father with was a small Barlow. I think it had two blades but my memory fades a little. Later on he would carry a Stockman. {That ought to make Steve happy}. He would carry a pocket knife and a fixed blade, {the same way I do now} when he went into the woods, to hunt or fish.  I have a couple of his fixed blades but those folders are gone.

One of the first knives that I bought on a regular basis.  Still like them as a whittler alternative.

Count me in, Robert.

Okay, Let me get a good picture and we'll start her up. Barlow's forever....lol

Hey, I was going to start a Barlow collection because I thought that they'd be inexpensive.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Let's go for it!

Donald, you are right, you can get a Barlow collection going for just a few Bucks$. You can spend $100 also, there's a place for all collectors, with the Barlow pattern. The low or high end collector can both be very happy with their collection. I think, it's all in the eye of the collector.

Frost Cutlery:  I'm bringing this post here from the "Knives of the Great Outdoors" where Charles Sample showed his Frost Bowie (Japan).  I don't collect Frost knives, but damm if I don't have a "Box Full of Knives" from Frost.  Guys who like knives will watch anything with knives in it so I watched Cutlery Corner for months without buying anything.  But, they wore me down and I got a box of fixed blades to see if they were as bad as I expected them to be.  I put one (rubber handled drop point "hunter") in my EDC rotation.  

I I don't know what steel is in this Frost knife, and I don't know what steel is in the Western (1991-2007 tang stamp) - bought closer to 1991 than 2007, and also in my EDC rotation, but the Western seems to hold an edge better than the Frost.  However, the Frost isn't too bad considering that I wasn't expecting a lot.  Have to hit it on the stone more, but like Charles Sample's Frost Bowie - gets used for whatever, I can use it to do whatever an EDC knife does, and it is soft enough to sharpen easily. I was able to baton this Frost (4.5" blade) through a 2,5" diameter standing dead (dry) hardwood tree out in the woods without dulling the blade.  It ain't my first choice for a go-to knife, but it is better than I expected,

Sorry, guys.  In the pic, the Frost knife is the one on the bottom.  Top is the Western.

My problems with Cutlery Corner Network.

1- they're not upfront with their shipping charges.

2- too much of a hassle to return things.

3- most everything is sold in lots.

4-  They are not upfront about the steel used in the knives.

5- they're not upfront with their shipping charges.

6 - too much of a hassle to return things.

7 - 420J2 is not a tool steel!

(Yes I know I listed shipping charges and hassles to return things twice!)

I also know that 420J2 has come along way over the last few years and deserves more respect than it gets, especially when it comes to inexpensive beater knives that you plan to abuse.  It might not be the best choice to bet your life on but it'll get you through a camping trip or twelve.  And yes you will need to sharpen it frequently.

Hahahaha.  Tobias, I never tried to return my box.  Figured that I would need all of em - get mad and throw one as far as I could when it let me down or break if I tried to pry with it.  But, there is a rub in your post I would like to explore:  "It might not be the best choice to bet your life on..."  And there is the rub.  It ain't the knife you have, it's the knife you have on you at the time.  Living in suburbia these days it is embarrassing, and probably illegal, to wear a "real" (blade longer than 4"-5") knife in case I have to go in to town for something.  I like a big knife for the woods, but since there are no bear or puma around the neighborhood where I live, I might have to depend on the little Frost if it happens to be on my belt that day that I really need a knife (against a rabid squirrel or something).  Maybe I should always be wearin a knife I feel confident about.  As Adam at Equip 2 Endure says:  "If you aren't always prepared, you are never prepared."  

Howard, you make a good point. However I think you need to do a risk assessment and be prepared for what is likely and not fret the improbable.

For instance, the likelihood of me needing a shotgun or bowie knife in my office at work or fairly slim. The likelihood of going to jail or losing my job for bringing them to work is fairly high.  This I have my Vic Spartan Lite on me at work and something a little more substantial buried in my back pack, just in case.

At the same time I have a shingle axe, an aluminum baseball bat and an entrenching tool in my the trunk of my car. All would not draw the ire of a cop if he felt he had probably cause to pop the trunk.  But if I had say a Shotgun, machete and a combat axe in the trunk I'd probably be cuffed.

The statement is you aren't always prepared you're never prepared is correct. However being prepared and being armed to the hilt is not the same thing.  Having what you need for the hear and now as well as having contingencies in place for the unlikely is being prepared.

Even the best knife gets dull and or can break.  Jethro Gibbs' rule about always having a knife is great rule.  Always have a back-up is an even better one!

LOL.  A great response, Tobias.  Agreed; a flak vest and Cold Steel Trailmaster at the local grocery store is a bit of overkill on most days (in my neighborhood).  Detroit?  Maybe not so much overkill.

Yep, and you can't go wrong having a roll of toilet paper in the trunk of the car.

Yes Steve, Tobias' risk analysis is sound, and if your mailbox is a mile away, you are far enough out from town to wear (knife) or carry (handgun) whatever you deem appropriate.  Is your mailbox uphill both ways?

Steve, Did anyone get the Mountain Lion or did it just move on?

When i put up picture of my swamp area on facebook, I put this pic in the middle of one of the albums to see if anyone would actually notice or comment.  so far no comments.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200254233509022&set=a...

Cool picture Tobias, not sure about the story LOL

Tobias, I'm just guessing of course but is the story Cabelas?

The story no.  But the mountain lion was in Cabelas near Hammond Indiana.  I live about ten minutes from the Indiana border (walking or driving!)

I know they are dangerous and can be a serious threat to livestock and those that take care of livestock but man are they beautiful.    The big cats are just about the perfect land predator.

Here in Louisiana, people for years have said they say black panthers and the La. Dept. of Wild life and fisheries has denied their existence, almost calling the people liars. Well, trial camera's other photos has proved who the liars are. Yes, we have Florida Panthers here in Louisiana. I have never seen one but I have a friend or two that has. I know these men well and they are real woodsman. I trust their report over what has been said by our government.

Robert, I know what you're talking about.  Some of the folks I told about the Armadillo looked at me like was talking flying saucers.  Eventually it'll make the evening news in Chicago and the same people will pretend like I never told them I saw them!

I think I posted this link about a year or so ago? But, nonetheless, it's a video that one of the local news shows ran a couple of years back that shows the two mountain lions that have been roaming around my town snatching people's pets and killing the deer in the area. They were just lounging in the lady's front yard one evening and seemed undisturbed when the police were trying to chase them off...

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&am...

We have had numerous bear sightings and the coyote pretty much use our foothill community as their own All You Can Eat Diner, grabbing any unsuspecting family pet that happens to venture outside after the sun goes down. 

This bear was tranquilized and captured back in June just two blocks from where I live:  http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&am...

It's a Jungle out there!!!

Hey Ron - just say "Here Kitty Kitty" and be sure you have your .45 when you do. You have lots of wildlife to enjoy. But better be careful.

We have to pen up or bring inside every dog or cat. The chicken pen has wire from the ground to the roof. That's how bad the predators are around here.

When my grand girls were small the coyotes killed several pet dogs. I saw them crying their eyes out and I then declared war on the coyote. I have killed a lot of them since then. My nick name is now Pawpaw Coyote, and their is a good reason. I have their number, and it's Dead 0.

They are true predators and pests for sure. We have lots around here, but it seems this year there are less than normal. The Rabbits are thick so we must be in that cycle. The Coyotes will return for sure. I hate that, they killed your little girls pets - go get em Robert.