Ex Stockman

[OLDE CUTLER]

I was talking to a guy that I know and see at the gunshows and he always has a bunch of knives of assorted types and I ended up making a trade with him last weekend. We were all done with our deal and I picked up another knife from his table just to see what it was, and noticed that it was a stockman with the master clip blade broken off. He said" yeah, I am going to throw that one in the trash unless you want it for parts". I looked at it again and told him it could be used for parts or redone to make a good user out of it. He said "No Way" and I said "Way". He said if I made a user out of that junk then he wanted to see it at the next gunshow. I told him I would see what I could do. I think it is a Camillus stockman, all that is visible of the tang stamp is the bottom half of USA on the broken tang. I made it into a 2 blade knife. It had the original fake stag plastic scales, so I redid them with some burl oak that I had salvaged from a board on a pallet and dyed with dark brown leather dye. Didnt turn out too bad. It will be priceless to see the look on his face when I next see him in a couple of weeks at the next gunshow and stick it back into his pocket to use. One problem, what to call it. Ex stockman, serpentine pen (although pens do not have sheepsfoot and spey blades), Frankenknife, or what do you think?

[Colonel26]

I call it fantastic and a very useful pattern! Well done.

[Meridian_Mike]

I call it fantastic and a very useful pattern! Well done.

X2...
I like it!!

It's fun to use parts and make something useful.

[Steve Warden]

I like it!
hmmm...
A "Moose" is a clip and a spay.
How 'bout "Pronghorn"?
Why?

Why not?

[cody6268]

Great job! I call it a grafting knife. The coping blade is good for grafting, and I guess the spey makes a good bark lifter. Imperial made a knife that was just like that, Schrade made a Cattle Knife with just sheepsfoot and spey blades, and then finally, Camillus made one for Clauss that was a Stockman with just a coping blade.

I have an 8OT with the main blade broken off. Jeffinn sent me a used blade that will fit, but I'm still exploring doing it up as just the two remaining blades.

[Meridian_Mike]

I have an 8OT with the main blade broken off. Jeffinn sent me a used blade that will fit, but I'm still exploring doing it up as just the two remaining blades.

Hmmmmm......
That sounds like an interesting idea!
I have several pieces/parts of 8OTs.....

[doglegg]

OC nothing you do surprises me but always impresses. Fantastic gets my vote.

[treefarmer]

Very nice!
Treefarmer

[Tony_Wood]

Great save!

[Reverand]

That looks great!
How about a "Half-Stockman"?
I have a couple of old US Boker stockman knives with no Master. I had thought of something like you have made, but talked myself out of it. Now after seeing yours I am definitely going to try it! I hope that I can do half as well!

[1967redrider]

Cool conversion, I like what you did there. I like your choice of scale material too, who would have thought pallet wood could be so appealing?

[OLDE CUTLER]

Thanks for all the comments. As far as what this should be called, I like half stockman from a traditional standpoint, but pronghorn is also very good and non traditional. When the two blades are opened as I showed in the OP, they stand up like moose antlers, but not as tall, thus "Pronghorn".

[glennbad]

Wow, that looks great!