Old Cattle Knives

royal0014 · Post by **royal0014** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:32 am

A few of my cattle knives. I prefer a pen or non-punch 3rd blade myself.
All these plus more are in the EDC rotation.

LongBlade · Post by **LongBlade** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 11:30 am

Some beautiful cattle knives posted in this thread from all

I posted this cattle knife awhile back but never in this thread explaining how I figured out it was made by Empire (and found on a local hunt)... a Shapleigh Hardware made by Empire with wood grain celluloid handles and sporting the Alvord punch but on the same side as the master blade... also has coined liners... figured it belonged here as well.

btrwtr · Post by **btrwtr** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 12:58 pm

Great pattern and love the handles on that old Shapleigh! They have a waterfall stripe that should display some movement when the knife is rotated in hand.

FRJ · Post by **FRJ** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 6:36 pm

Great pictures, guys.
Love that Shapleigh, Lee.

LongBlade · Post by **LongBlade** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 7:33 pm

Thnaks Wayne and Joe !

Wayne - I understand what you are saying about waterfall celluloid - sort of has that look in a way but does not shimmer or refract light when rotated unlike the waterfall celluloid shield on this Thomaston sleeveboard which has a shimmer when you rotate it in the light (which is actually pretty cool!)... In a followup search on celluloid patterns after I first posted the cattle knife (and we had a long discussion on that thread about what to call the celluloid pattern) I found a reference and photo of a very similar celluloid pattern and had read it was called wood grain... Now if I can find the reference

... anyway here is a closeup of the waterfall shield from that Thomaston and just a photo of blades and whole knife for perspective (whole discussion on that knife can be found at: http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kni ... on#p467911

(PS - Apologies in advance as I don't mean at all to derail this thread with this knife - just thought the waterfall pattern was clear on it as comparison)

btrwtr · Post by **btrwtr** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 11:33 pm

Great knives in this thread. Thanks for reviving it Dimitri!

Here is an old Schrade Cut pearl.

btrwtr · Post by **btrwtr** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 11:34 pm

A Robeson pearl whittler on a cattle frame.

btrwtr · Post by **btrwtr** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 11:37 pm

Cattaraugus.

btrwtr · Post by **btrwtr** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 11:38 pm

Three Robesons.

FRJ · Post by **FRJ** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 11:39 pm

Great looking knives, Wayne.

Miller Bro's · Post by **Miller Bro's** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 11:52 pm

Awesome Wayne, the pearls are hard to find

Mason · Post by **Mason** » Thu Oct 27, 2016 2:53 am

Great additions guys!!!
Here is an old pearl Wostenholm.

thegreedygulo · Post by **thegreedygulo** » Thu Oct 27, 2016 3:28 am

A page & thread full of NICE knives!

Beechtree · Post by **Beechtree** » Sat Oct 29, 2016 1:56 am

Great knives, thanks all!
Wayne, I really like the color of the bone on that Catt.

Tsar Bomba · Post by **Tsar Bomba** » Mon Oct 31, 2016 1:39 am

I only have two cattle knives, an old bone Imperial that has inconveniently gone missing and this synthetic Pal Cutlery I carried yesterday:

Tsar Bomba · Post by **Tsar Bomba** » Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:48 am

Still no luck finding the Imperial. I do have this old Lawrence & Co...something. It's sorta like a cattle knife -- cigar body, spear master, punch -- but it has this rather odd file with a beveled edge that could be a wire stripper or some sort of long scraper.

The spear has weak snap and has seen some serious use (although still gets sharp as can be), and the file/stripper blade is tipped, but the bone is absolutely intact and wonderfully pocket-worn the old way, and both blades riding the second spring snap like gators -- file pull is about an 8-8.5, punch is no slouch either. I don't really know what was on the end of the file blade, as I've never found a complete example of this knife, but I'm guessing either the rest of a tapering file or possibly a screwdriver/scraper end.

Quick Steel · Post by **Quick Steel** » Wed Nov 02, 2016 9:42 am

Tsar: It looks to me like it could be a screw driver just as is. No?

treefarmer · Post by **treefarmer** » Wed Nov 02, 2016 1:54 pm

X2
Treefarmer

tongueriver · Post by **tongueriver** » Wed Nov 02, 2016 3:48 pm

treefarmer wrote:X2 Treefarmer

Yes. Spear, screwdriver, punch. Complete.

Beechtree · Post by **Beechtree** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 2:00 am

That is a real nice old Cattle, Tsar. The bone reminds me of an Empire. Can you make out the rest of the stamp?

CheckSix · Post by **CheckSix** » Sat Nov 05, 2016 1:03 am

here's my Schrade 856 Cattle knife, in high definition....

kootenay joe · Post by **kootenay joe** » Sat Nov 05, 2016 6:22 am

Great color in the bone on that Schrade-Walden 856. The red and yellow combination look like a certain type of 'firey' sunset. I bet there are more S-W out there with bone from the same dye lot.
kj

FRJ · Post by **FRJ** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 1:40 pm

Here's two more cattle knives I wanted to get in here.
A Challenge and a Wards. 3 5/8" each.
Thanks for looking.

Miller Bro's · Post by **Miller Bro's** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:18 pm

Can't go wrong with those two Joe!

RalphAlsip · Post by **RalphAlsip** » Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:55 pm

Beautiful knives Joe. Love the bone on the Wards

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