All About Pocket Knives

Here's a shell handled Imperial fixed blade with pinstripe celluloid.

And here's a Buck 303 Stockman with nice MOP celluloid. This thread may just make it to double digits, keep 'em coming.

Nice fixed blade shell nmikash!
My son found one like it at a pawn shop & the next day I got one in the mail! I was rather funny.

The mail man was good to me today. I got a celluloid shell handle Imperial fish knife & a shell handle Hammer Brand Barlow. It is the first shell handle Barlow I have seen.

Keep the shells & the celluloid's coming guys!!!!

I've really enjoyed each and every photo. Thank you guys.
some more toothpicks: The tiny one with bolsters is a solid handle/bolster. Anyone know what it is? Tiny one with no bolsters is an old Colonial. Largest is an Imperial Hammer.

Phil

Wonderful thread and informative

So many super Photo's. I do not have a camera yet. I am waiting for the artical in WORLD KNIFE about how and what to use to get super nice photos. Then I will buy a camera.

I could NOT help my self. Reading all about Rough Rider being a good user knife and I think this one I just bought has cell handles. So if I am wrong on the cells let me know please. And What is Imitation Abalone handles ? If its not Cell?

Rough Rider RR350 Mini Coanoe Im Abalone Knife

nmikash wrote:A couple of Schrade Cut. Co. marked pen knives.

The larger one looks identical to my Remmington.

Here is some pretty celluloid on a knife that has had some rough use & abuse. A guy just gave me this this evening, actually I gave him a old hammer (he collects them) and he gave me this old L F & C.
The interesting thing is that the back handle is plain black celluloid. They must have put the fancy celluloid on the mark side and the plain on the back. Even back then they must have cut corners.

Dale

LF&C (landers, frary, and clark) are great knives. I bought a roughed up one for $5. I took out the small broken blade, a nice thin single blade edc. I couldn't stand the 1/2 melted bandles, so I threw some desert ironwood on it. one of my favorite edc's right now.

nmikash wrote:A couple of Schrade Cut. Co. marked pen knives.

Hi nmikash. Are those handles Ivorine? s-k

MM, It is good to see you here in this forum too.

Dale

Ken,
Why would you think you are making people mad?

Dale

S-K: I am not sure whether they are ivorine handles.
Is there some way to distinguish this from celluloid? I like these little knives.

Thanks,
Nick

nmikash wrote:S-K: I am not sure whether they are ivorine handles.
Is there some way to distinguish this from celluloid? I like these little knives.

Thanks,
Nick

Yes nice knives. I just recently learned about ivorine so can't answer your question other than going by the color and the 'grain' lines. El Lobo and Broken Camillus provided some information in the Name your Posion thread. I think it is more stable then genuine celluloid:) s-k

for a little info on celluloid see
http://www.plastiquarian.com/celluloi.htm

The home page has some links you might be interested in including some care tips, a time line of inventions in the general history of platics etc.

http://www.plastiquarian.com/ind1.htm

orvet or Dale (I got a strange knife in the mail yesterday. It is a shell handle, except it looks like perhaps a vinyl cover over the shell instead of celluloid.) I did not see any one answer you but me.(witch was no help)

I have asked some questions here too and no answers.
Some were to one person.(like is it for sale??)
Others were about a knife.(Rought Rider)

We both still do not know yet. At lest I dont know.
This POST is going so long.Is that why no answers or did I make people mad here with my coments ??

justold52 wrote:Is that why no answers or did I make people mad here with my coments ??

I don't think you made anyone angry. But, I can only speak for myself.

I do know the subject of chinese-made knives can be volatile. It could be, however, that no one knows what the handle materials are made of.

When threads go on a long time, sometimes the plot lines tend to get watered down ,with so many posters. I'm sure it was just an oversight...

Glenn

Ken I don't know why anyone would be mad at you. Your posts are always pleasant and I enjoy reading them. Glenn the chinese knives do bring out comments from a lot of guys, me included. So much of the stuff that we buy is coming from china and I just hate to see our beloved pocket knives coming from there too. I'm sure they are pretty decent knives and I will admit they do have some features that I wish the American manufacturers would use more of. Some of those rough riders and Marbles International have some really neat bolster work. I still don't want any though. A guy could build up a pretty good sized collection for very little money if he wanted to go that route though.

James

Good Morning Ken,
I bought 2 or 3 Rough Riders last year and thought they were pretty good for the 5 or 6 dollars I paid for them. But I also noticed they were made in China and I don't like Chinese steel. Speaking for myself, (and I am sure a few other Vietnam veterans) I think we dodged too much Chinese steel in Vietnam to feel very good about buying Chinese steel in a knife. Therefore I don't collect Chinese knives & know very little about them.
So other than the fact that they seem to be pretty & are made in China I know nothing about Rough Rider knives. I didn't answer because I don't know the answer to your question.

I am with James, I have always found your posts to be pleasant and I enjoy reading them. I hope you keep posting.

Yes, I noticed that I didn't get an answer to my question about the DE/Ulster/58OT. I figured no one knew. I also posted it in the Schrade Forum at BF and did not get an answer there either. I talked to Richard Langston on the phone and he told me that it was made at a time when Ulster, Imperial & Schrade Walden were under the control of the Albert Baer & they did a lot of projects together and eventually merged. Even he did not know a much about it. So I didn't take it personally when I didn't get an answer in either forum. I figured that no one knew about the knife.

Please keep posting as I personally enjoy your posts & the pictures of your knives. I would like to see more of your collection as well as more celluloid's from other people. I don't make a point of looking for celluloid, but when I got to looking for them in my collection I was surprised to find how many I had.

Lets keep the celluloid pictures coming.
Dale

orvet, jfarmer, and glennbad;

Thank you for makeing me fell good again.

I just mite be the new drugs that I am takeing now that makes me fell depressed. So I take things way to personall. I will get over this felling.
With your kind words it has mad me a new man already.

No problem Ken!
I know what it is like when the doctors change my pills......either too strong, or not strong enough.

OK......Back to the topic. I found a celluloid shell Hammer Brand Barlow. I forgot I had it. I guess I have too many knives when I forget I have them.

Dale

[quote="glennbad"]Hi guys,

I love the shell handle knives. Mainly cause I can still afford them. While most don't consider these very valuable, they are important in knife history, and mint examples of some are becoming harder to find.

I have been into the Imperial line for awhile, and have taken a liking to certain styles. Here is a pic of my favorites. They are called Tu-Tone, and remind alot of people of (All in the pic are Imperial, except the lower right, which is German-made.



Well I found it Glen the paint jobs on cars in the 50's. Item number: 120034200037 just to show you that your photos stay in my brain. and Item number: 120033768149 E Bay Item number: 120034173157

I have already said this but I sure am glad that you guys are posting these beauty's they are great. I am pleased to see these knives that I would never get a chance to see otherwise, thanks...

Sunburst

Nice collection justold

John Primbles with waterfall handles. Two of my favorites. Great thread. I've always had a soft spot for these knives.