Just got this off the bay.....

[Meridian_Mike]

Hey everyone.....
I just got this off the bay. Looks like rivets holding pieces together until the cutlers could make it into a knife....
My question... Did Western ever make a knife with this blade complement that y'all know of?

The only one I have that is similar is this one..... It has the spear point blade but mine has a skinner blade as a secondary.

I'm thinking I want to put me some nice stag handles or something like that on the one I got off the bay. I just wondered if y'all have ever seen the one above from my first pic? (And if y'all have one?)

Thanks y'all....
Mike

[whiskeytango315]

Mike,

I too have an unfinished double lock back, I showed it to one of founders of RMBC and he thinks it came out of Longmont, CO when Western closed their doors. I believe somewhere i've got a Camillus in the same configuration as your rubber handled one. My thoughts are that they were planning on releasing the Western's and never got the opportunity. Please post some pictures of it if you do end up putting handles on it. The fit on the one I have is not really good, locks barely engage, probably going to pull it apart and give it a tune up.

Jeff

[Meridian_Mike]

Mike,

I too have an unfinished double lock back, I showed it to one of founders of RMBC and he thinks it came out of Longmont, CO when Western closed their doors. I believe somewhere i've got a Camillus in the same configuration as your rubber handled one. My thoughts are that they were planning on releasing the Western's and never got the opportunity. Please post some pictures of it if you do end up putting handles on it. The fit on the one I have is not really good, locks barely engage, probably going to pull it apart and give it a tune up.

Jeff

The way you described yours, mine is exactly like it. The fit up is poor, blades do not lock. A tune-up is definitely a must.
Since I got mine in hand, a can see these were unfinished. Thanks for your reply confirming that.
It might be a little while since I have a big home project to do but I will post my finished knife here.

Mike

[zzyzzogeton]

Camillus came out with a double lockback in 1993 called "PROMASTER", which was in the skinner configuration and had blaze orange rubber handles. IN 1994, they added some double and triple blade lockbacks in black rubber. The patent number for the double and triple lockback design was 4,805,303. The triple bladed Camillus included a saw blade as the 3rd blade.

Then in the 1996, a Western line of double lock-backs came out. The one with the skinner blade was advertised as being "NEW" in the Camillus 1996 catalog under the Western lineup - the WD245, aka "Southern Skinner" - W for Western, D for Delrin (stag). The patent number for the double lockback design was 4,805,303.

Also NEW in the 1996 catalog was the WD246 or "Li'l Rascal". It had the same main clip blade, but the blunted skinner was replaced with a serrated spear point blade.

I don't know that the Western saw blade version ever saw the light of day. I have always assumed they were Camillus bankruptcy sale detritus. I got 10 of them for $20 off fleabay back in 2010.

[Meridian_Mike]

IN 1994, they added some double and triple blade lockbacks in black rubber. The patent number for the double and triple lockback design was 4,805,303. The triple bladed Camillus included a saw blade as the 3rd blade.

yep, I have one of those. One of my favorites for skinning / dressing a deer.