All About Pocket Knives

That looks like one heckava chopper Terry! I'm curious about the use of the hollow pins; is there a benefit to their use?

Steve, He told me he wanted them in case he wanted to tie it on a pole for a spear! or what ever. Most custom knife makers use hollow pins to lessen the weight I guess? You know the customer is always right. Terry

Thanks Terry!

Good looking knife.

Looks like you nailed the specs on that one.

He picked it up today and loved it! that's good! happy customers are always nice. Terry

Really a good looker there Terry !!! Looks a lot like a Bark River knife...
just went thru your parts of the western Platt river country,
boon docked at Cabela's in Sidney cause we pulled thru late and did
not want to mess with a campground

Will
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[image][/image] few White Hunters a Bowie and Skinner

Will you should have given me a call, I only live 17 miles east of Cabela's in Sidney, but early in the morning would be best, I'm not much of a night owl anymore.
Pumamadness, good looking knives! I had one like your bottom photo, I bought it at the Rod and Gun Club in Hiedleburg Germany in 1965 but someone stole it from me when I got back to the states. Terry

I've shown these Bill Bagwell/Ontario Bowies in the past, but not outdoors. The didn't turn out sufficiently well for the photo thread so here they are again. I call the top photo "steel henge."

The Ontario Bagwell are nice knives.

Pumamaddness, love that top skinner with the stag scales. Absolute cool beauty. Quicksteel, some great looking ones there, and bigbore, that stag dagger is great, doesn't have that too skinny narrow look. Great knives on this page all.

Terry, outstanding creation there. Hand axe/camp/bushcraft, whatever the job at hand it looks as though that sturdy hardware can handle it.

Pumamadness, great collection. I'm with I-Man on the top one being my favorite as well.

Quick Steel, those are some serious blades. Very nice collection.

Bigbore, your blades look awfully serious as well. Nice!

You have to love Bagwell's knife design's...
I'm kicking myself for not getting one.

Welderbob: These Ontario/Bagwells were limited but you might keep an eye out on ebay for one to turn up. A notable feature of all these designs is how fast and agile they are in the hand; very quick.

Thanks QC, I recall A.G. Russell selling these back in the 90's. Handled one at a show in Arkansas back then, but had my sights on a Dozier.
The one I liked had a Ebony handle with the long clip blade.....well can't own them all...

This Bowie-fighter was made by Michael Burch.

Böker/Dozier & Camillus/Fisk

Erwin: I've always liked the lines of the Fisk design, called the Sendero if I recall correctly. Is that a crack I am seeing in the handle or part of the grain?

Thanks. No crack just very nice grain.


Some oriental

Bigbore: A really interesting collection. Impressive blades, all of them.

My most recent fixed blade acquisition.

Ken

I really like the look of those macarta handles. Where is Stone from?

espn77 wrote:I really like the look of those macarta handles. Where is Stone from?

He was from Richardson, Texas, where I grew up (back when Richardson was a small town ). Stone made knives there in his shop for about 30 years, until his death in the early 1990s. He and his business partner Ralph Bone had a gunsmith shop in Richardson in the 1950s. Both made knives also, and Stone eventually split off into exclusively making knives. He was one of the founding members of the Knifemakers Guild. Many of his knives are handled in Micarta but he also used stag and other materials. He still has a following and is probably best known for the quality of the steel used in his blades. He had a proprietary process for tempering steel, which unfortunately he took with him when he died in the early 1990s. viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45241
https://www.facebook.com/GWStoneKnivesAppreciationPage/

Ken

Great knife and fascinating read. There has been an explosion in knifemakers in the last half century, obviously, and I had not heard of this fellow. I collect Ruana knives. R.H. Ruana was a full-time knifemaker who made a living at it when (1938) he and two other men were the only full-time knifemakers in the United States (Skagel and Randall). Correct me if there were other fulltime makers. Thanks for posting on Stone! I just looked up Richardson, Tx on Mapquest. DFW has become a real monster!