The Best of Homemade Vintage

[Iron Hoarder]

A lady at work gave me this knife out of her father possessions.It has long turned stainless bolster which were a single split piece. the liners are brass and at the blade are fitted to the shape as well as being tapered to match the blade grind along it's length when closed. The blade has a full hollow grind. The Sambar scales have knurled brass roundlets at either end. The main pin is steel, the bolsters are pinned with nickel and the scales are held with brass. The knurled shackle pin is drilled and mounted through the spring. I suspect a fairly skilled machinist made this one. The only flaw is the large chip which is so common with a full hollow grind. Just like on razors.

[carrmillus]

..IH, that is a piece of work!!...beautiful!!!....would like to have seen it when it was new!!!.... ............

[basser5]

Wow...I love it!!


How long is it closed?


Tim

[Salernoslim]

Man, that thing is neat!

[Dragunski]

That's a very interesting custom piece. Are you sure those long bolsters are nickel-silver?

Also, those are very thick brass liners, and very close together. How tight does the blade fit into them?

[gino]

Very Cool!

[Shearer]

Very nice knife.

[galvanic1882]

That is one cool piece!!

[Iron Hoarder]

That's a very interesting custom piece. Are you sure those long bolsters are nickel-silver?

Also, those are very thick brass liners, and very close together. How tight does the blade fit into them?

The bolster are stainless with nickel pins. The blade when closed fits with very little room between its self and the liners. Whoever made it put a lot of time and effort into it.

[Dragunski]

The use of stainless probably means that it's not as old as it looks. And the size of them gives the impression that it could be German. Or maybe the guy just didn't have bigger pieces of stag. Is there anything that might make you think it could have a military origin? Made in the trenches?

I'm not sure that I would try to fix the chip. You would lose all the patina by grinding it down.

[glennbad]

I've never seen anything like it. It's quite interesting. Thanks for showing it!

[FRJ]

Very impressive knife, Iron Hoarder.

[Iron Hoarder]

The use of stainless probably means that it's not as old as it looks. And the size of them gives the impression that it could be German. Or maybe the guy just didn't have bigger pieces of stag. Is there anything that might make you think it could have a military origin? Made in the trenches?

I'm not sure that I would try to fix the chip. You would lose all the patina by grinding it down.

Stainless dates to 1917. I doubt it came from the trenches.The workmanship is too good and used machinery. I figure it for post WWII I have no intention of trying to grind the chip out.

Closed length is about 4 inches.

[philco]

Robert that is one unique and exceptionally nice knife. I bet that thing would shave a cat before that blade got chipped. Congrats on owning it and thanks for showing it to us here.

Phil

[HiPower]

looks chezc or hungarian--paladin had a bunch of old european knives some years back & we saw many unusual folders. HiPower

[msteele6]

Here's a picture of one that I posted under another topic looking for information.

This knife appears to have very similar construction to the subject knife (Concave ground blade, flanged liners, the hole at the end of the backspring for the shackle etc.) The most obvious differences I see are the nail nick and the presence of the shackle on the subject knife. However, these knives seem to have been made by the same person (company?).

[stayinsharp]

Here's a picture of one that I posted under another topic looking for information.

This knife appears to have very similar construction to the subject knife (Concave ground blade, flanged liners, the hole at the end of the backspring for the shackle etc.) The most obvious differences I see are the nail nick and the presence of the shackle on the subject knife. However, these knives seem to have been made by the same person (company?).

I just repaired the twin to that one. plastic was missing form one end, blade was abused and other scale was cracked. Good as new now!

[msteele6]

Interesting. That means that there are at least 3 of them. I'd love to find out where, when and who made them. The quality of mine is quite good, tight as a drum all around. Thanks for posting, it would really be nice to see a picture.

Thanks

mark