I hope you all can help: The handle material number indicates these are bone covers, but they feel like plastic. Perhaps it's the feel of the long, fine jigging that's throwing me off?
Also was this shield used often?
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Bone or plastic covers on this 612407?
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This question comes up fairly frequently so there's a thread in the "Tips & Tricks" forum that addresses this issue. ---► viewtopic.php?f=98&t=62145&p=732251#p732251
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Re: Bone or plastic covers on this 612407?
Not exactly sure that “plastic” is an accurate description for it, but the handles are pressure molded black composition.
I have seen a sample of the handles in a factory logo box with a description of their attributes. They were manufactured and supplied to Robeson by an outside company, the name of which I forget.
The sample handles were on a Robeson knife.
During and after WWII, bone was not readily available. Robeson and others replaced their bone handles in that time period with black composition of some form. Case was another company that did that.
Robeson did not change the pattern numbers to reflect that change. They just continued to put that “6” on the blades.
The shield dates the knife to the early to mid-1950’s.
I have owned several knives similar to that, but I don’t think I’be ever seen a toothpick.
Those handles, whatever they are, are very durable. They will not shrink and I’ve never seen them outgas.
That’s a nice knife.
Charlie
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I have seen a sample of the handles in a factory logo box with a description of their attributes. They were manufactured and supplied to Robeson by an outside company, the name of which I forget.
The sample handles were on a Robeson knife.
During and after WWII, bone was not readily available. Robeson and others replaced their bone handles in that time period with black composition of some form. Case was another company that did that.
Robeson did not change the pattern numbers to reflect that change. They just continued to put that “6” on the blades.
The shield dates the knife to the early to mid-1950’s.
I have owned several knives similar to that, but I don’t think I’be ever seen a toothpick.
Those handles, whatever they are, are very durable. They will not shrink and I’ve never seen them outgas.
That’s a nice knife.
Charlie
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Re: Bone or plastic covers on this 612407?
Thanks for the lead, Jerry!jerryd6818 wrote:This question comes up fairly frequently so there's a thread in the "Tips & Tricks" forum that addresses this issue. ---► viewtopic.php?f=98&t=62145&p=732251#p732251
Re: Bone or plastic covers on this 612407?
Thanks Charlie. Good to get the intel. The retro-futuristic shield and the angular cut of the blade gives this one a kinda space-age tickler look. I'm actually happy to hear the covers are composition in this case.RobesonsRme.com wrote:Not exactly sure that “plastic” is an accurate description for it, but the handles are pressure molded black composition.
I have seen a sample of the handles in a factory logo box with a description of their attributes. They were manufactured and supplied to Robeson by an outside company, the name of which I forget.
The sample handles were on a Robeson knife.
During and after WWII, bone was not readily available. Robeson and others replaced their bone handles in that time period with black composition of some form. Case was another company that did that.
Robeson did not change the pattern numbers to reflect that change. They just continued to put that “6” on the blades.
The shield dates the knife to the early to mid-1950’s.
I have owned several knives similar to that, but I don’t think I’be ever seen a toothpick.
Those handles, whatever they are, are very durable. They will not shrink and I’ve never seen them outgas.
That’s a nice knife.
Charlie
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