All About Pocket Knives

Heck...we collect anything except sharp sticks around here, There's even a place for your knapped blades. You've got lots of reading here to catch up.

Fran

Sauconian wrote:Heck...we collect anything except sharp sticks around here, There's even a place for your knapped blades. You've got lots of reading here to catch up.

Fran

I'll have you know I collect sharp sticks!!

Sauconian wrote:Heck...we collect anything except sharp sticks around here
Fran

Fran
You don't?????

I guess me & Charlie will have to rectify that situation.

Dale

My sharp sticks;
From rustic edge, to chisel point, to button-down points, a sharp stick collection is a joy and a treasure! I am still searching for the Holy Grail, a twig from the old Waterville picnic grounds.

Charlie,

Eric and I have a whole collection of vintage sharp sticks to sell you ! All from Walden.

They ain't gonna be cheap... but I'll throw in a couple of rare ones too, from Allentown.

Fran

Well, I don't have any Waterville or Walden sticks but I do have a number of Vintage Oregon sticks.
Sticks related to such world famous cutlery companies as Murphy (Murphy combat knives & the original maker of Gerber Knives), and of course Gerber sticks, Al Mar sticks, Benchmade sticks, and Columbia River Knife & Tool sticks.

I even have a stick verified to be sharpened by Orvet, the barely known & occasionally heralded sometimes knife maker & customizer of knives.
(I think I can even get him to sign one).

Unfortunately, I do not have a way to scan them, as they won’t fit my scanner.
However, I just ordered a photo booth today & if the interest remains high in the sticks, I can make, …er, ……. I mean photograph some sticks for this thread when my new booth arrives.

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Fran,
Please post pics of all the sharp sticks (you may exclude the dull ones) in your collection.
Perhaps we can get Bryan to set aside a special thread for Stick Swapping!

Dale

With apologies to AnotherKnifeCollector, for totally hijacking his thread!! Back to Waterville guys!!!!


(Real Walden sticks, Fran?? Sharp???)

Four months later a Waterville beaches itself in the Pacific Northwest!!
This knife was preceded by a Tsunami!!
I have compared it to a Case 6347 premium Stockman, so you can get an idea of size. It also weighs twice as much as the Case! I've never seen that shield before either; have you??
Here's big Mamoo!! When either blade snaps, all the crows leap from their roost!!

hey charlie, that is a big mamoo! great knife with an interesting shield.


my contribution. water-ville co. ivory quill knife. 3" closed.

jonet143 wrote:hey charlie, that is a big mamoo! great knife with an interesting shield.


my contribution. water-ville co. ivory quill knife. 3" closed.

I think you have the largest vintage collect of knives with imperfections in the country!!!

Pen & Toothpick wrote:

jonet143 wrote:hey charlie, that is a big mamoo! great knife with an interesting shield.


my contribution. water-ville co. ivory quill knife. 3" closed.

I think you have the largest vintage collect of knives with imperfections in the country!!!

what? tranlate please.

I can't translate, but I will say that both the knives shown above are great.

Both have such interesting designs and such a richness about them.

That big old Jack has a backspring like a bear trap. You'd have to put rocks in your other pocket for ballast if you carried that thing.

Phil

jonet143 wrote:hey charlie, that is a big mamoo! great knife with an interesting shield.


my contribution. water-ville co. ivory quill knife. 3" closed.

I can't tell the size, but that quill knife looks like a Little Mamoo, Johnnie ! Nice!!

Sauconian wrote:Just this one.

Fran

I had a xchance at one exactly like that a few weeks back, but it had greenish horn handles. Blade was worn but still snapped like a trap, I nearly fell over when he proudly stated his $600 price tag

Found this Waterville Cutlery Co. knife at a flea market this weekend.Folded it measures 4 inches long. Can anyone out there tell me anything about it?

caboolman wrote:Found this Waterville Cutlery Co. knife at a flea market this weekend.Folded it measures 4 inches long. Can anyone out there tell me anything about it?

I have a couple of those knives which I believe are either used for splicing new growth onto a tree(slice bark open w/blade;use other end to open bark to insert splice)or as a combination folding bone(for making envelopes before they were commercially available)and sharpening pen quills.Both of mine are English.

I have one Waterville that I picked up recently. They do seem hard to find.

I thought I posted some pictures in this thread of some of my Waterville knives

I will have to find that punch jack, here is a straight razor w/original box.

Click the pics

Wowzers, that straight razor looks like it just came off the shelf.

I got this knife as a gift while at the Leheigh show this past weekend. The backsprings are covered in Tortoise.

Here is my latest Waterville.

Again -

GREAT ONE ! glad one of members got it . you just don't see Watervilles like that to often ENJOY !

Great knife. Glad some body got it that won't mess it up.

I am pretty new and don't always understand why things sell for what they do.
However, one look at that knife and even the novice can see that its a stunner.
Congrats on getting it, WAY TOO COOL!!

IM