All About Pocket Knives

Thank you for the comments gentlemen

It is a real gem and I am happy to have it in my collection

If I were you, I would try to carefully remove the pink paint. Maybe you could try Q-tips with a little paint thinner. That knife would be almost perfect without those little splotches of paint. I don't think the thinner would hurt the blade finish, if you kept it away from the wood handles.

It's a gorgeous jack with nice ebony handles, really good shape.

Dragunski wrote:f I were you, I would try to carefully remove the pink paint. Maybe you could try Q-tips with a little paint thinner. That knife would be almost perfect without those little splotches of paint.

That color you are seeing in the picture is a reflection from a red LED on my camera, I had to tape it off on the camera to get rid of that reflection in my more recent pictures. That picture was taken a few years ago.

Dragunski wrote:It's a gorgeous jack with nice ebony handles, really good shape.

Thank You

OK - I'm a dummy. I should have realized...

But it didn't look like a flash reflection, and I've had a number of knives that were used by painters. It's terrible when you carefully remove the paint and find a rust spot underneath. Much better to just have a shiny hole in the patina.

I'm not real crazy about wood handles, but that one's something special.

Received this knife as a gift from a family member.
Would like to know more about it. In my research attempt, I only found one other like it.
However, it was in poor condition It had a broken blade and was very scratched.
How much is this knife worth?

Here is a NYKC hammer brand lock back. It is 4 & 1/2 inches closed. Lloyd

Here is another NYKC hammer brand jack. Ebony handles and with the full HAMMER BRAND etch still visible on the primary blade. It is 3 & 1/2 inches closed. Lloyd

Great old NYK Hammer Brand Lloyd!

Here is the only one I own, nice teardrop with a very faint blade etch left,

Thanks John! That is a very nice Jack you have I like the shield and the match strike long pull on the primary. What are the handles? Look like cocobolo with the red in them. Very pretty. Lloyd

Lloyd and John those are some nice knives!

Very nice Lloyd and John! Don't see a lot of NYK Hammer Brands with intact blade etch! At least I haven't.
Dan

This arrived recently in a group of pocket knives that I bought. This particular pocket knife was NOT the target of my purchase. It's a HAMMER BRAND, 2 blades, 2 tang stamps, 2 1/2" closed, pocket knife. It has either the 1936-1937 or the 1938-1941 tang stamp. Certainly not the prettiest pocket knife. I did what I could with it, took some pictures, here it is.
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This arrived recently in a group of pocket knives that I bought. This particular pocket knife was NOT the target of my purchase. It's a HAMMER BRAND, 2 blades, 2 tang stamps, 3 1/8" closed, pocket knife. It has either the 1936-1937 or the 1938-1941 tang stamp. Not in bad shape at all. I cleaned it up a little, took some pictures and here it is.
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Recently, this pocket knife arrived in a very large group or lot of pocket knives that I purchased. It now becomes the latest example to join this topic or thread and to also join my general pocket knife collection. I did NOT buy the group or lot of pocket knives to obtain this particular pocket knife. But, it did turn out to be a keeper. It is a HAMMER BRAND, three blades, one tang stamp, 3 1/4" closed, two springs, pocket knife. The tang stamp says "HAMMER (over) BRAND (with the flexed arm & hammer) and also a vertical USA on the side. According to the tang stamp chart, it dates to circa 1945-1955. Overall, it is in EXCELLENT condition. All I did was wipe it off. I took some pictures and here it is.
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These are prolly my two nicest Hammers.

These 2 are my only ones I think. The pearl one has a pen blade marked NYK Walden. The main blade marked hammer brand. The one with black cover is hammer brand with pat. # on the pen blade. Jimbo

Eelephant wrote: ↑Sun Jan 01, 2023 2:13 pm These are prolly my two nicest Hammers.

Those 2 look brand new! Very nice pair!
Jimbo

My one and only Hammer Brand

MadeinUSA wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 2:40 pm My one and only Hammer Brand

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Nice Jim, that one looks great for sure!!
Love the patriotic theme!!
Jimbo

I have the 4 Hammer Brand cattle knives pictured here. They all are or were shell handled. I did a conversion on the one on the far right. When I got it, it was missing one of the shell handles and the other was damaged. New brass liners and bolsters were made and ironwood handle material installed. As you can see three have clip blades and one has a spear main blade. the one on the far left is like new. I also have a pen, jack, and 2 camper/scout Hammer Brand.

OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 7:39 pm I have the 4 Hammer Brand cattle knives pictured here. They all are or were shell handled. I did a conversion on the one on the far right. When I got it, it was missing one of the shell handles and the other was damaged. New brass liners and bolsters were made and ironwood handle material installed. As you can see three have clip blades and one has a spear main blade. the one on the far left is like new. I also have a pen, jack, and 2 camper/scout Hammer Brand.

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Very nice, any chance we could see some closeup shots of that conversion?

Eelephant wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:43 pm

OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 7:39 pm I have the 4 Hammer Brand cattle knives pictured here. They all are or were shell handled. I did a conversion on the one on the far right. When I got it, it was missing one of the shell handles and the other was damaged. New brass liners and bolsters were made and ironwood handle material installed. As you can see three have clip blades and one has a spear main blade. the one on the far left is like new. I also have a pen, jack, and 2 camper/scout Hammer Brand.

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Very nice, any chance we could see some closeup shots of that conversion?

Sure. Bolsters are cut from 1/8" brass, liners from .032" brass. Remove and discard the shell handles and the steel liners. Use the steel center divider as your drill template to drill everything exactly like the steel originals. Solder the bolsters onto the brass liners and rehandle. I have converted shell handle cattle knives, jacks, and Kamp Kings. Not hard to do but time consuming.

OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:18 pm

Eelephant wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:43 pm

OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 7:39 pm I have the 4 Hammer Brand cattle knives pictured here. They all are or were shell handled. I did a conversion on the one on the far right. When I got it, it was missing one of the shell handles and the other was damaged. New brass liners and bolsters were made and ironwood handle material installed. As you can see three have clip blades and one has a spear main blade. the one on the far left is like new. I also have a pen, jack, and 2 camper/scout Hammer Brand.

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Very nice, any chance we could see some closeup shots of that conversion?

Sure. Bolsters are cut from 1/8" brass, liners from .032" brass. Remove and discard the shell handles and the steel liners. Use the steel center divider as your drill template to drill everything exactly like the steel originals. Solder the bolsters onto the brass liners and rehandle. I have converted shell handle cattle knives, jacks, and Kamp Kings. Not hard to do but time consuming.
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Fantastic. Never even considered it before. Definitely gonna have to give it a try.

Got this Hammer Brand today, not to bad of shape

I picked up this shell handled Hammer Brand pen knife at the local flea market last weekend for a couple of bucks.