Case tested question.

[DMLEATH]

Good evening! I bought this on an auction and I was wondering if this is the original handle. The knife is well used. Thanks for your input!

[Mumbleypeg]

That looks like a re-handle job to me. Never seen anything like those handles before on a Case fixed blade. I think the knife had a pommel originally, it might have had bone handles without a pommel. JMO Those having SCOUT stamp I think were stag, not sure about those stamped EXPERT but I doubt they were wood. The article on Case fixed blades by Brad Wood (Sargent’s 7th edition) indicates the knives stamped with SCOUT, EXPERT, CARSON, etc were made pre-1934. He doesn’t list any wood handles pre-1934, unless I missed it.

Ken

[1967redrider]

Cool old survivor.

[Gunsil]

Knife is definitely a re-handle. Case "Expert" had black plastic handle with no separate pommel. The Case "Scout" and "Carson" were available in stag, cocobolo and leather handles. Case did make wood handled hunting knives before 1934, the "named models" Carson, Cody, Scout, and Boone were all made between 1926 and 1932 at the Kinfolks factory. Brad Wood has come up with a lot of information since that Sargent's book.

[1967redrider]

Isn't someone currently working on an updated Case fixed blade book?

[XX Case XX]

Isn't someone currently working on an updated Case fixed blade book?

I hope so, as I would love to add that to my Case books. I wonder if Steve knows.

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Mike

[Mumbleypeg]

Isn't someone currently working on an updated Case fixed blade book?

That would be Brad Wood. I read somewhere, probably here or in Knife Magazine that he is working on a book about fixed blade knives. It might have been a post by Gene. But it was a couple years ago that I saw it so…………

Ken

[DMLEATH]

Thanks everyone for that information! I have a case book but not much on fixed blades.

[peanut740]

Brad Wood is pretty much the go to guy for Case fixed blade expertise. He is also a fine feller.