Case Fixed Blades

[1967redrider]

Just wondering if anyone collects Case fixed blade knives? I have 2 Kodiaks, the one has a pretty early tang stamp and sheath. The newer one has what I would call snake skin stag. I have some miscellaneous fixed blades including a Tested era cracked ice, a stag 3 Finn and 2 leather handled knives. I recently picked up this 1976 Dougle Eagle Commemorative and boy is she big and sweet! And I've posted this boot knife before. I know this is a folding knife forum but you gotta love the fixed blades Case puts out there.


Post some of yours!

[gino]

Great looking fixed blades! I only own one Case fixed blade nand its a 65-69 leather handle. Yours are awesome!

[jerryd6818]

For years I was a big fixed blade guy before succumbing to the dark side (folders). I didn't "collect" fixed blades, I just had a hand full that I occasionally hadn't been able to resist (an Ontario made 'Ka-Bar' type fighting knife, a Model 8 Randall Trout & Bird, a Gerber Mk 1 boot knife, WWII Fairbairn-Sykes bead & ring, etc). When I started acquiring more knives in the mid to late '90s, fixed blades were actually my initial focus and then I veered off down the long dark road of slip joints.

I guess I could have left all of that out and said, like Gino, I also own just one Case straight knife. I do have a Jones for one of those Case Twin Finn sets but jeez, the sheath for one goes for more than I normally pay for a folder.

[1967redrider]

Thanks guys!

Sweet Case USMC knife jerryd, I think I might have one of those kicking around too.

I've been on the prowl for a Twin-Finn set too that doesn't break the bank. I love the Tested knife/axe sets as well, still on my radar.

[Quick Steel]

A very impressive collection. Never saw a Case boot knife before. Congratulations.

[chautauqua]

heres a few i have the one is really rare ever seen one of there handmades before

[1967redrider]

Man, I love the blade on that one with the leaf pattern handle! Basket weave pattern on the sheath too.

All of them are pretty sweet.

[chautauqua]

thanx red ryder i like the knife fits good in hand bought it new in bradford the blade has never had a shine to it kinda looks like its oil stained right from factory((((((((((((( also if anyone knows of a case handmade in vascoloy let me know this one is 440c)))

[Miller Bro's]

Here is one............

[1967redrider]

Sweet knife Miller!

I am always on the prowl for those Case Tested 61, 64 & 161 pattern fixed blades because of the jigged bone on them. Simply gorgeous.

[Miller Bro's]

There is a lot of jigged bone on these

[chautauqua]

it always suprised me as to why they didnt add a couple fixed blade patterns in with the classics the jigging on the cokebottle folding hunters would have matched up well with some of the older fixed blade patterns

[Miller Bro's]

This is a close up of the handle...............

[1967redrider]

She's a beauty for sure!

[22 short]

Here's 2 of mine both knives are new from the 30's I think

[1967redrider]

Sweet knives, 22!

Your first knife has what I think is the same ricasso stamp on my gnarly stag Kodiak. I thought it to be an early 60's stamp but I'm not positive.

[chautauqua]

they used that stamp up to 1965 and does anyone know the purpose of the dimple on the bottom of tang of 22 shorts stag knife ?

[22 short]

chautauqua , I wondered the same thing, also looks like it has a "blood gutter" like a bayonet?

[Miller Bro's]

It is a choil, not a dimple.

[22 short]

Thanks Miller Bros found this description on Google - Choil

The choil is an unsharpened section of the blade. If a guard is present, the choil will be in front of the guard on the blade itself. The choil is often used as a way to choke up on the blade for close-in work. The index finger is placed in the choil, and this close proximity to the edge allows for greater control. In addition, the choil is just in front of where the blade itself becomes part of the handle, an area often prone to breakage due to the blade-handle juncture. The choil leaves this area at full thickness and thus stronger.