camillus sunfish

[desert.snake]

He arrived, it was done very well, everything is much more precise and elegant than RR

A friend cleaned it up a bit and filled the crack in the handle with cyanoacrylate. I put the rest of the photos and videos here

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCe7nU

video
https://flic.kr/p/2r4Du3k

[Ripster]

He arrived, it was done very well, everything is much more precise and elegant than RR

A friend cleaned it up a bit and filled the crack in the handle with cyanoacrylate. I put the rest of the photos and videos here

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCe7nU

video
https://flic.kr/p/2r4Du3k

Very nicely done . That’s a nice old Camillus there ! Glad you guys didn’t buff the crap out of everything. That’s a pattern that has eluded me so far. You have a great knife there.

[desert.snake]

Very nicely done . That’s a nice old Camillus there ! Glad you guys didn’t buff the crap out of everything. That’s a pattern that has eluded me so far. You have a great knife there.

Thank you very much! Yes, we tried not to spoil it completely

It looks like it belonged to a hunter, he cut something, closed the knife without cleaning the blade and forgot about it for many years. I have seen traces of such oxidation many times on fixed hunting knives that were not cleaned of blood and put in a sheath. The crack on the handle is fresh, maybe the seller, when he found this knife and decided to clean it for the first time, opened it with force and the axial pin of the spring moved and created this crack


What's interesting is the blade's behavior when opening and closing. It's the same as the Sunfish from Marbles/RR. That is, the knife itself does not have a clear half-stop, but at the same time it behaves as if there is something like a half-stop, smeared in space. This makes the knife much more reliable than many others. What I mean is that if you hit the blade sharply from above, as if we were cutting something, we stubborn it and the blade started to fold, most knives without a half-stop would continue to move and hit your fingers. Here, the blade stops in a kind of half-stop. I thought it was an invention of the Marbles/RR engineers, but it looks like it's much older. I wonder how other sunfish behave, such as Catts, Case and others?

If I draw a schematic of the knife tang with a half-stop, without a half-stop and what I see on the Camillus/Marbles/RR will be in the middle

[doglegg]

He arrived, it was done very well, everything is much more precise and elegant than RR

A friend cleaned it up a bit and filled the crack in the handle with cyanoacrylate. I put the rest of the photos and videos here

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCe7nU

video
https://flic.kr/p/2r4Du3k

That old beauty is in amazing condition. Full blades! What a great find! Congrats!!!

[wlf]

Nice one.

[Miller Bro's]

[1967redrider]

Those are sweet and hefty knives.

[desert.snake]

Thank you all !!

Now I'm definitely set and will be looking for old Sunfish's, they are beautiful

[Reverand]

A great save!

[Papa Bones]

Thought I would add mine to the thread. Got it about a year ago. It's A Camillus, 4 line tang stamp, black composite grips. Has the Sword Brand logo on the large blade tang, and the 4 line Camillus tang stamp on the small blade. Excellent hard snap on both blades, no wobble, but as you can tell, at one time it was very stained with rust. You see it as I received it. It has been cleaned and re buffed at one time in it's life. But still glad to have it in the collection. Like some have previously posted, I would not try to put both blades at half stop.

[New_Windsor_NY]

Thought.....

Smitty, that is a VERY NICE acquisition!!

[Papa Bones]

Thought.....

Smitty, that is a VERY NICE acquisition!!

Thank you Skip.

[Ripster]

Thought I would add mine to the thread. Got it about a year ago. It's A Camillus, 4 line tang stamp, black composite grips. Has the Sword Brand logo on the large blade tang, and the 4 line Camillus tang stamp on the small blade. Excellent hard snap on both blades, no wobble, but as you can tell, at one time it was very stained with rust. You see it as I received it. It has been cleaned and re buffed at one time in it's life. But still glad to have it in the collection. Like some have previously posted, I would not try to put both blades at half stop.

Camillus 4 Line Sword Brand ET_2.jpg
Camillus 4 Line Sword Brand ET_1.jpg

That sure is a very nice addition to your collection Smitty ! That might be an early 4 line with both blades stamped.
In the last year they sure have gone up in price ,especially those in good condition or better.
Thanks for sharing.

[doglegg]

Thought I would add mine to the thread. Got it about a year ago. It's A Camillus, 4 line tang stamp, black composite grips. Has the Sword Brand logo on the large blade tang, and the 4 line Camillus tang stamp on the small blade. Excellent hard snap on both blades, no wobble, but as you can tell, at one time it was very stained with rust. You see it as I received it. It has been cleaned and re buffed at one time in it's life. But still glad to have it in the collection. Like some have previously posted, I would not try to put both blades at half stop.

Camillus 4 Line Sword Brand ET_2.jpg
Camillus 4 Line Sword Brand ET_1.jpg

Great find.

[Papa Bones]

That sure is a very nice addition to your collection Smitty ! That might be an early 4 line with both blades stamped.
In the last year they sure have gone up in price ,especially those in good condition or better.
Thanks for sharing.

Thanks J.P. The Four Line Camillus is fairly easy to see, The Sword Brand logo, only the top of it is above the bolster, you just about have to put the blade at an angle from the handle and tilt the knife to see more of it.

Great find.

Appreciate it Floyd.