Help identifying handle material
Help identifying handle material
I was looking through my knives today, and pulled this knife out. I remember buying this knife to use when going camping. It was sold to me as having a wooden handle. After looking ar it again, I think it could be some kind of bone. Anybody have any insight? Looks like the older model of the CSC drop point.
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Re: Help identifying handle material
The handle is wood. Someone who knows CSC well can likely ID what species of wood it is.
kj
kj
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Corey I believe that's giraffe bone. That's an early model so I'm not sure who it was made for, by I'd say they didn't make a whole lot of them with that bone as that's only the second one I've seen.
Eric
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Thanks Eric & KJ, I thought it was wood for the longest time. I think the cracks and color make it look like wood. It's lack of grain made me think it could be something else.
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Wow ! Did i ever get it wrong !
But, it does look like wood to me, even now knowing it to be bone. I see hints of curved 'grain' that i associate with a burl in wood.
Hopefully i am not the only AAPK'er who was fooled by these handles ?
kj
But, it does look like wood to me, even now knowing it to be bone. I see hints of curved 'grain' that i associate with a burl in wood.
Hopefully i am not the only AAPK'er who was fooled by these handles ?
kj
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Look at the handles with magnification (the higher the better). If you see the haversian canals (the minute tubes which form a network in bone and contain blood vessels) then the material is bone. Other materials, i.e. Delrin, wood, ivory, etc would not have haversian canals. They show up as little dark spots. Refer to the image shown below comparing bone to Delrin.
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I am sure the haversian canal dots are there but i cannot see them in the O.P. pictures.
kj
kj
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I'll see if I can find a magnifying glass and take a closer look when I get home. I know you can only see so much from a few pics.
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Is there a number on the bolster? I think I see one.
Larry
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Hey Larry, #088
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Corey from what I can gather here, what you have is amber camel bone. That was used twice very early on, once in an edition of 25 knives for Cumberland knife Works, and another time for A.G. Russell in a set of two knives; the hunting knife and a small stockman. Yours is likely from the set since your serial number is too high for the Cumberland edition.
Eric
Eric
Re: Help identifying handle material
Thanks Eric. Mind blown.
Do you have some kind of inventory list or are you the three eyed raven of Canal Street? (Apologizing for the Game of Thrones reference in advance)
Do you have some kind of inventory list or are you the three eyed raven of Canal Street? (Apologizing for the Game of Thrones reference in advance)
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... and here's a pic that may be consistent with the little dark spots that Jerry was referring to.
Re: Help identifying handle material
Definitely bone. Very Nice!
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Eric is a cutler for Canal St Coreysbu .. it’s great that Eric is a member here... so his info is better than a 3-eyed ravenCoreysbu wrote:Thanks Eric. Mind blown.
Do you have some kind of inventory list or are you the three eyed raven of Canal Street? (Apologizing for the Game of Thrones reference in advance)
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