All About Pocket Knives

There are some really fine knives being shown here! I really like that Ambush Tundra, Tank, you can sure see the Bark River influence in it.

They basically did his Favorite Blade -- Canadian Special and mated it with every ones favorite[ handle.

TRiver, at least your in the black, could be worse, like in the red.
Tank, great Micarta on the Ambush, very cool. Not gonna tell me how to drill a square hole huh?

Wow Tank, that Ambush Tundra of yours could turn me into a modern materials knife guy pretty easily! OH

I was starting to lean that way also OH till I saw Mansoligen's Knives

wow, you guys have some sweet knives! Love em'! Here are my 225QCatts. I have more but no pics yet. I'm getting ready to move so I'm going through my collection. This case is full of fixed blades. New and old. I'll try to get some more pics as I prep them for moving.

My $16.00 garage sale find, 1950's Solingen Germany Ansco knife

Mostly Solingens, a few others.

What a beautiful bouquet of fixed blades. Thanks for showing them.

Got these awhile ago on e-Bay.Not sure whether they are supposed to be table knives or letter openers or what.Handles and blades made of two different types of jade(or jadeite). They aren't particularly sharp but will cut meat.Anyone ever seen anything like these?

My latest fixed blade: An Estwing Sportsman with original sheath. Not sure how old it is but it looks like it may have been made by Western. Anyone know for sure?

knife7knut wrote:My latest fixed blade: An Estwing Sportsman with original sheath. Not sure how old it is but it looks like it may have been made by Western. Anyone know for sure?

I just read an article on Estwing knives and can't for the life of me remember where I read it. I don't thing Western made them. I have one of the bigger Estwing knives that had the same butt as their hatchets and your knife was the last one they had made to sell with their hatchets before they gave up on knives if my memory isn't messing with me. I think that was around the 60's. I'll see if I can find the article. I found the article. It was in the Yankee Trader section of the March 1987 National Knife Magazine (Page 10) and the author Cindy Rabb said they were made into the 1980's and has a picture of your knife. She also suspected Western but the knives still don't look like a Western pattern to me. Estwing was located in Rockford Ill' ___Dave

djknife13 wrote:Estwing was located in Rockford Ill' ___Dave

IS located in Rockford IL, down on Harrison Ave., just a few blocks west of 11th Street. I've been looking off and on for one of the ones with the flat butt that has Rockford, Ill stamped on it. They always seem to be more than I want to pay.

If the OP knife has two pins transversely through the pommel there is a good chance it was made by Western via their patented bifurcated tang construction method. If it only has one pin or peened on the end it is not Western.
Regarding the comments about the flat-butt items, I thought this Western might be of interest. It is shown in the 1936 catalog, and shown here along with a later Western version.

OK, I'm going to try this again, couldn't figure out how to post a pic on the new forum site. But this is a knife I just made, English walnut handle, O-1 tool steel and hand stitched sheath that I also made. Terry

Terry I really like the looks of that knife. Great work !

Terry, what Phil said.

Here is a Western 640 A I just recently obtained. Buck 102 also.

tongueriver wrote:If the OP knife has two pins transversely through the pommel there is a good chance it was made by Western via their patented bifurcated tang construction method. If it only has one pin or peened on the end it is not Western.
Regarding the comments about the flat-butt items, I thought this Western might be of interest. It is shown in the 1936 catalog, and shown here along with a later Western version.

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So the older Estwing fixed blades were made by Western?? I never put two and two together on that one.

Producer wrote:Here is a Western 640 A I just recently obtained. Buck 102 also.

Very nice condition on your two knives! Good score!

Lots of eye candy posted here since I last looked in! Great show everyone!

This is one I picked up for a gift to a friend who is headed for the sandbox. I figured I'd get a pic of it before I take it to the engraver to be personalized.

terryl308 wrote:

Producer wrote:Here is a Western 640 A I just recently obtained. Buck 102 also.

Very nice condition on your two knives! Good score!

Thank you.
I added the 640 to my small Western Knives collection.
I have another smaller one that says H48B , with the letter E under that ,[1981] on the blade. It's Delrin handled but of different design.
The 640 has a 4 and 1/4" blade.
The H48B blade is 3 and 1/4"
Here is an old picture of some.

You guys all have very nice knives. Thanks for posting the pictures everyone.

What a nice collection of Westerns. The blade grinds on the SAME pattern changed somewhat over the years, probably not too much from Boulder to Longmont (1978), but more so as first Coleman, then Camillus took the helm. Thanks for showing them! I completed my black phenolic and brass Buck collection, all in 5160 steel. 119, 105, 118 and 102 patterns. I am really liking these knives. They are going to go more "tool" for me than " collectible."

Excellent Bucks TR!

Cal I didn't know they made those Bucks with brass pommels. Very interesting to me. I've got several with the aluminum pommel. Got a timeline on those of yours ?