Show off your fixed blades!

[WelderBob]

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...

[bigbore]

This Bowie-fighter was made by Michael Burch.

[bigbore]

Böker/Dozier & Camillus/Fisk

[Quick Steel]

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?

[bigbore]

Thanks. No crack just very nice grain.


Some oriental

[Quick Steel]

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

[Mumbleypeg]

My most recent fixed blade acquisition.

Ken

[espn77]

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

[Mumbleypeg]

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

[tongueriver]

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!

[terryl308]

This is not a Stone knife but his partner, Ralph Bone. You sure can tell the two worked together, not sure who copied who, I bought this knife in 1967 or 8 in Boulder, Co. It has been on several elk and deer hunts, really good knife. I met Ralph in 1980 at the NRA convention in K.C., he was a stock maker then and engraver of guns. Very talented guys. Terry

[americanedgetech]

Those knives are so similar that I would be hard pressed to say who-s was who-s.
They look like the same maker on different days but the sheaths are very different.

No matter, I love the flow of those blades.

[Mumbleypeg]

Actually the sheaths on earlier Stone fixed blades look like that. I'd bet they were made by the same person.

G.W. Stone Micarta hunter, with sheath

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I've heard it speculated that during their partnership Stone actually made most of the knives, even though Bone's name was on some. Bone did most of the gunsmith work. Whether that is true or not I do not know, but looking at their knives I can see how one could get that impression. Fine work, either way!

Ken

[espn77]

Since Ralph Bone made knives in Lubbock also I've heard some guys talk about him. His earlier knives had a S below the Bone stamp. The way it was told to me those were the only knives actually made by him????

[americanedgetech]

I can live with that as a distinct possibility.

I used to have a partner building race boats (19-21') out on Long Island.
He was the outboard mechanic, and I was the designer, and builder of the boats.

Once in a blue moon (let's call him Joe Dirt) Joe would feel a bug where he wanted to add his ideas to a hull. If we were slow, and nothing else were interrupted, I would build his hull but I would NOT put my name on it.

It was his idea, and his burden. I just made it happen... Today there are maybe 1/2 a dozen "Joe Dirt" hulls around but I know who really built them.

I can see the same/similar thing happening here.

[terryl308]

The sheath on my Bone knife was made by Johnson's Leather, Casselberry , Fl. So neither Bone or Stone made it. Johnson's made sheaths for a lot of early Randall knives, after Heiser Saddlery made them for Randall. Since I bought it new in a shop, it is original to the knife. A little trivia for you. Also the tang stamp is the "dog bone" with Bone, Lubbock,Tx stamped on it (no S)? The opposite side tang has C 525 stamped on it. Maybe Ralph made knives when in Lubbock, I'm not sure if Stone was with him then. Terry

[tongueriver]

This is not a Stone knife but his partner, Ralph Bone. You sure can tell the two worked together, not sure who copied who, I bought this knife in 1967 or 8 in Boulder, Co. It has been on several elk and deer hunts, really good knife. I met Ralph in 1980 at the NRA convention in K.C., he was a stock maker then and engraver of guns. Very talented guys. Terry

Beautiful knives. May be just me but I am seeing a strong Bo Randall influence.

[Mumbleypeg]

Terry, I hadn't noticed your Ralph Bone knife was marked "Lubbock". It wasn't likely made by Stone. Bone moved to Lubbock, while Stone remained in Richardson.

Cal, I agree about the Randall influence. G.W. readily acknowledged admiration for and inspiration from Randall. But he had many unique (at the time) original designs of his own, which in turn inspired later generations of knifemakers. Here's a few Stone originals (not my knives).

G. W. Stone "Magnum" survival knife

G.W. Stone "Diana" integral hunter

G. W. Stone " High Country" integral light weight hunter

As posted previously, Stone's knives were renowned and prized for their steel. viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45241#p597662 He couldn't keep up with demand, plus some customers wanted folders. So to satisfy his customers it's said that he started buying Buck folding hunters and re-blading them with his blades. That was quicker because he didn't have to build the frames.

G. W. Stone folding hunter on Buck frame

Ken

[koldgold]

Schrade fixed blade knives.

[terryl308]

Very nice Schrade collection! I guess I'll have to go to Australia to find the good ones.
It's funny how the major makers influence other makers down the line, Scalgel influence on Bo Randall, Randall on a bunch of makers (including me1) like Bone and Stone. Also Blackjack used Randalls models on their knives. I don't see many stone knives up here in Nebraska, wish I would run across one, I'll keep looking! thanks for the response Ken. Terry

[americanedgetech]

That is some serious set of Schrades!!!

[WelderBob]

That's a impressive collection of Schrade's... ...some very nice knives.
The Western pattern G 46-8 is a favorite of mine.
Top knife is WW II vintage. Middle knife with the birds head pommel I'm thinking 60's - 70's, not real sure.
Bottom knife has a rather large pommel, probably 80's, another guess.

[Producer]

Most impressive!!
Thanks for showing everyone.

[zzyzzogeton]

That's a impressive collection of Schrade's... ...some very nice knives.
The Western pattern G 46-8 is a favorite of mine.
Top knife is WW II vintage. Middle knife with the birds head pommel I'm thinking 60's - 70's, not real sure.
Bottom knife has a rather large pommel, probably 80's, another guess.

For the middle one, with more detailed pics of the stamps, I can narrow it down a little.

For the bottom one, look at the single letter in the 3rd row of the stamp. Western started date-stamping their knives in 1977 with a singleton "A", then a "B" in 1978, and so on. On my monitor, I can't quite see the letter clearly. Kinda looks like a B, D, or E.

[WelderBob]

Some pic's of tang's on the middle knife. I like the feel and balance of this one, nice handles.
Bottom knife is a E so 1981. Did they use this style pommel to the end ?

ZZ thanks for the information, I have one more, its a blade only with a serial number on it, I'll dig it out.