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Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:06 pm
by JohnR
Mike, got the knife today and all I can say is WOW! What a beautiful knife, thanks.

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 5:15 pm
by galvanic1882
Thanks John and we are glad you like the knife!!

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:18 am
by Tsar Bomba
Haven't seen a single one of these on the secondary market. That must mean the people like 'em. ::nod::

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:40 am
by Drukai
Great looking knives..bummed I missed out on them!

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:49 pm
by galvanic1882
I have never seen one for sale either. When Bill contacted me that he had these made from the remaining parts of the Eureka run Derek and I were very happy. Only 13, 2 bladed ones with wooden handles, not the old Cattaraugus Rosewood and 1 single blade. But the one that I was most happy to get was a 2 bladed knife with the old Catt Rosewood handles.

Below is a picture of 3 knives, The single bladed one is the only one made and the 2 blade deep laser engraved JBF is the only one with the old Catt handles. The knife deep laser engraved GALVANIC was from the first run and is what I call a sterile knife. There is no serial number on it. GEC sometimes etches these prototype but they are not really just overruns.

I would buy any and all JBF Champlin knives back that I can find.

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 10:43 pm
by sunknife
Those are beautiful, a man would be lucky to own that threesome of knives.Thanks for showing 'em to us. :)

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 12:36 am
by galvanic1882
Believe me I do feel lucky to have them!!!

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 4:21 pm
by jmh58
sunknife wrote:Those are beautiful, a man would be lucky to own that threesome of knives.Thanks for showing 'em to us. :)

Sunknife.. You are dead on!!! ::tu:: ::tu:: Very NICE!!! ::nod:: John :D

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:26 pm
by galvanic1882
Just got this one back, Stag number 22

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:27 pm
by galvanic1882
done

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2021 9:42 pm
by kennedy knives
Very Nice ::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu::

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 1:10 am
by utahbound
It's a shame when you have to buy your own birthday presents!!!

Derek

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 1:20 am
by galvanic1882
No you already did that 🀣🀣🀣 Thanks again brother!

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 2:02 am
by edge213
galvanic1882 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 1:20 am No you already did that 🀣🀣🀣 Thanks again brother!
Interesting old knife ::tu::

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 2:06 am
by galvanic1882
Henry Sears knife with Korn patented pop up corkscrew. Press down on the foil cutter and the corkscrew pops up.

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 2:10 am
by galvanic1882
Here is another Henry Sears knife with the same patented corkscrew

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:39 am
by Buckibbq
galvanic1882 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:26 pm Just got this one back, Stag number 22
Thanks for sharing that beautiful 92 Stag! It’d be a thrill to own any one of those special JBF knives. The hunt continues!

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2021 2:17 pm
by JoKr
#922213 JBF Chamblin in Rosewood

i am a very happy dude :D
#922213 JBF Champlin 1 of 15 Rosewood-3-2.jpg
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#922213 JBF Champlin 1 of 15 Rosewood-5-2.jpg

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2021 2:22 pm
by galvanic1882
Nice score, there were only 15 of them made that have that etch. Wish I could have had them all made with the old Cattaraugus wood. Had to settle for rosewood that Bill had.

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2021 2:48 pm
by JoKr
galvanic1882 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 07, 2021 2:22 pm Nice score, there were only 15 of them made that have that etch. Wish I could have had them all made with the old Cattaraugus wood. Had to settle for rosewood that Bill had.
thnx Michael,
i love everything about these special knives, the history and the stories!

Jo

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2021 5:43 pm
by utahbound
Great Score Jokr!

I love the etch on these, it's my favorite.

Hold on to that gem!

Nice photos too!

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:21 am
by JoKr
utahbound wrote: ↑Sun Nov 07, 2021 5:43 pm Great Score Jokr!

I love the etch on these, it's my favorite.

Hold on to that gem!

Nice photos too!
thnx ::tu::

thats a grail knife for me and a nucleus in my collection!

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2022 4:15 pm
by galvanic1882
Happy Father's Day to all the Fathers out there. If you like the 85's here are 4 of them I have not posted before. When Derek and I were having Bill make our knives we started with the 85's. 50 were in bone and 50 were in ebony. It was not the wood we found in the old Cattaraugus factory but ebony that Bill had. Since we were getting our trademarks done we asked Bill to make 3 knives with an etch for each of the trademarks in the 85 pattern. He made 2 sets of the knives, one for me and one for Derek. Since we only had about 20 old Rosewood handles from the factory at the time we asked him to also make 5, 85's using the old wood. Derek got one, his ex wife who is a Champlin got one, the owner of the old Cattaraugus factory got one and my friend Donna that went with me to collect the wood got one also. Pictured is mine.

Also we hope to have a single bladed knife with the old Rosewood handles from the factory for sale in Aug/Sept. They will not be made by GEC but by a custom maker. Should be 15 only!!! We are very excited to say the least.

Mike

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 12:31 am
by utahbound
Very Cool!!
I need to pull mine out and make sure they have enough oil and love!

Re: JBF Champlin & Sons

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 2:08 am
by utahbound
Here's a few more shots of the 85s Mike was talking about.
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