Old Rope Knives

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ratlesnake75 wrote:Hey Lee, Finally got my old man to dig out his Russell Stag knife & get a couple pics for me to post it. He bought the knife for .50cents at the Pine Bluff, AR Flea Market around the year 1990 when I was in High School,,This is what he told me as I didnt remember at all,,,I think I was more interested in looking at Girls at the time, lmao. Some old man was using the knife too peel oranges with and Dad ask him if he wanted to sell it, LOL. Its been one of our personal favorites ever since.
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I got this 4 line Camillus this weekend. No bail, and a lotta off road miles,but the price was right. I have a question though; why is that shape of blade better for cutting rope than any other shape, or is there another use?
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Bruce, that's the kind of knife I enjoy finding! I looked it up and I believe that stamp is the 1941-46. What is the handle material, it looks like wood in the picture?
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Philip; I saw one way back on this thread that was said to be jigged rosewood. I don't know about the rosewood but it is a dense wood of some sort. Bruce
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I acquired this in trade a week ago at my monthly knife club meeting. I find the curve in the blade interesting. Maybe it improves its function??
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Thats a nice one Charlie, unique with that curve, great vintage stag!
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Thanks, John!!
Like so many of those old Ropes from that era, its snap will chop a pencil in half!! :mrgreen:
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Wow that Turner is a great knife. ___Dave
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Here's my collection to date:
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An old Union
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Very nice Union PD! ::tu::
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Really nice Union rope knife with those worm groove bone handles PD ::tu:: ::tu:: ...
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Here's an old Thomaston Navy jack - 3 & 1/4" closed; looks like Rogers bone to me as the handle. Interestingly Thomaston was not one of those 14 listed that made these knives for the government around WWI. Yet the manicure blade has the remnants of the circular stamp "Made in USA" that was seen on many rope knives made for the government.
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That's a good looking knife Lee, thanks for sharing!!!
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Thanks Bill ::tu:: ...
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Here's a well patina'd Robeson in need of a bail
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Does this qualify as a “rope knife”? It looks like rope and it’s definitely a knife......
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Now that is unique.
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Pile Driver, that is a good looking knife. ::tu::
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Does this qualify as a “rope knife”? It looks like rope
looks like it was made from guy wire. very nice!
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I suspect we can add Thomaston to the list of makers of the WWI Navy issue jacks.

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A Thomaston I had,
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Nice John ::tu:: - I still think it is strange how we both scored one within a month of each other and no doubt separate sources for scoring them - when in fact before that Thomaston was not even known to many as a maker of Navy Jacks (as Charlie alludes to above one more for the list of makers) ::nod:: ... The bone looks the same between the 2 jacks (I'm guessing Rogers Bone from the color) but the jigging looks somewhat different to my eye ::hmm:: though that only may mean a different worker did the jigging as one explanation.....
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How about a Case XX era bone scaled Bill Boatman? I remember reading somewhere the serrated blade was used to cut rope. Had a hard time getting a picture of the blade etch but it says;

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Nice ones guys ::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu::

Here's an oldie :)
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