All About Pocket Knives

Two CS Tantos: The one on the right is the CS Leatherneck, made in Taiwan. On the Left is a U.S. made tanto using Carbon V steel.

Quick Steel wrote:These two are by the late, great, Al Mar. I was very pleased to acquire them.
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Quick, that top AL Mar is badass!!

Glad you like it David.

This thread needs a bump. This Vic Hangas (Ruana, 1990ish) bowie is in the mail, I hope.

TR, Love that Ruana!

Ruana's are always something special. Congrats tongueriver!

Anton Wingen Jr bowie knife


EDIT- That's a beauty Terry!!!

That's pretty cool Triple F, looks like beauty and beastly combined.
Great rams horn Terry. Sweet knife.

I have not checked this thread for awhile. What a lot of excellent knives. That Al Mar big Fighter ? Bowie ? is impressive to look at, very !
Is it heavy in hand ?
And Terry i very much like your ram's horn Hunter, handle shape & blade all have good 'flow' into a knife that stands out & speaks to one. I like this the best of all your knives i have seen posted here. I bet the owner is thrilled.
And a Ruana is never out of place showroom or hunting camp. Cal have you ever used one hunting ? How did it go ?
And finally Anton Wingen posted by Scott: Wingen made the best of that Bowie-Hunter style that was very popular in 1950's-1970's.
I have a large double Hunter set by Wingen. I keep it because i think it is the best example of that style of knife from that mid 20th century time period.
kj

kj, Although a substantial knife, I find the Al Mar is well balanced moving easily and quickly in the hand. Nor is it distracting when carried on the hip.

Very nice Quick Steel.
I posted some Schrade fixed blades in their dedicated forum if anyone cares to peruse it.
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Lon Humphrey brute de forge drop point that I just picked up a week or so ago. Haven't used it yet but looking forward to putting it to work on a 4 day camping trip thats coming up. I dyed the sheath to darken it and did some wood burned design work on it too, plus added the leather lanyard with a deer antler bead. It is a hefty knife and I bought with the intention of using it, I believe it will take whatever I can throw at it.

That is a fine looking knife. It exudes strength. And you made the sheath look so appropriate. Well done sunknife. When you get back from camping be sure to let us know how it performed for you.

that is impressive looking sunlake!

Hey sunknife... I LIKE it!!! John

Thanks for the kind comments fellas. Now I need get out in the woods and put this hog to work, haven't had an opportunity to see what it can do yet.

I've likely posted this one before but I had to dig it out to re-photograph as I am sending some pictures to the company whose name is stamped on the tang to see if I can glean any information about it.
The knife has been in my collection for about 35 years and was part of a huge military collection a friend of mine purchased and sold off the civilian knives mostly to me.
Double edged dagger with what looks like a carving set handle that has a silver butt cap.Stamped,"Cogswell & Harrison Co. Gunmakers London".
The company is still in business manufacturing high end shotguns and has been for over 200 years. I doubt they made the knife in house;probably contracted with a Sheffield cutler. I've never seen another knife with this stamp and their website shows no evidence they ever had any. Hopefully I will hear from them soon.

Wow, some very nice knives being shown here.

Just finished this one up, I tried to copy the blade design of a WW11 Western W31 but didn't put the fuller in it , so the blade grind is about all that resembles a W31 Parachustist knife. But it does have cocobolo wood handles like the original and measures about the same but no alum. butt cap. Kind of fun to make an unusual blade shape and I have it sold already. All I had to go by is the catalog page from 1945. the sheath is my own design. Terry

Wonderful Terry.
Looks great!

thanks, mr. producer! Terry

Just great lines on this new drop point Terry,
love the blade and handle shape, looks comfy,
sheath is killer as well, you are putting LodgePole on the map, thats for sure !!!
Will

terry, I love the design. The wonderful blade and handle have a seamless "flow" which is hard to come by. Congrats!

thanks for the kind words, QS and Stagman. I appreciate it. Terry

My old snorkeling companion is going to get some use again soon.