If you’ve got a yen for something a little cute and highly portable, be it for yourself or in preparation for stuffing stockings, check out the new Real Steel Knives Baby Barlow. The Baby Barlow shrinks down the beloved traditional pattern but keeps the materials modern.
At this point, even for younger enthusiasts, the Barlow is an old friend. It’s a pattern that quite simply speaks to almost every knife appreciator at one point or another in their collecting career, which accounts for at least part of its centuries long circulation. Manufacturers likewise will turn barlowwards every so often, and RSK seems to have had barlows on the mind lately; they released the Real Barlow; now, they’re doing something a little more retro. and a lot smaller.
Is it a sign that the Barlow craze has peaked when people start making less functional “modern interpretations”?
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Real Steel Celebrates Arrival of New Baby Barlow
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