All About Pocket Knives

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 11:52 pm I was carrying this one out in the desert today.

ken98k wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 3:50 am About 10 years ago I was procrastinating over buying a $79 Blackjack Tac-Ops 4 at SMKW, and then just like that, they were all gone.

petekuhn wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:31 pm Patina so thick it looks like gold spray paint

I am looking at 'em again... and ohhh man they are sweet!

Great knives everyone is showing.

I've got these. I like this style/pattern.

Top knife is a Utica Knife & Razor Co., Utica New York.
Czechoslovakia.

Middle knife is a Landers Frary & Clark.

Bottom knife is Crane Brand Cutlery.

And this Cold Steel Trail Master.

I'm sort of smuggling this thing in under the Bowie title.

Just dug this one out of the basement. Don't remember what I paid for it but found an original invoice inside the display case for over 300 bucks from the Franklin Mint!
Knife is nicely made & finished and the case is(I believe)red oak & very heavy. A copy of the Bart Moore bowie.

Joe, why do you say you have to "sneak" your Trail Master under Bowie? It is a very well made and legitimate Bowie.

Definition of Bowie Knife:
A Bowie knife is a pattern of fixed-blade fighting knife created by Rezin Bowie in the early 19th century for his brother Jim Bowie, who had become famous ...
A stout single-edged hunting knife with part of the back edge curved concavely to a point and sharpened.
Blade length: 5–12 inches (13–30 cm)
Length: 12–18 inches (30–46 cm)

Must be used to kill a bear.

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 2:06 pm Definition of Bowie Knife:
Must be used to kill a bear.

That's it. ah haint used it to kill a bare ---- yet ...........

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 10:23 am Joe, why do you say you have to "sneak" your Trail Master under Bowie? It is a very well made and legitimate Bowie.

I probably should have worded that differently. Actually the other three knives don't really fit the true description of a Bowie knife.
As I understand the look of the knife was more of a high faulten kitchen knife; but I wasn't there.
But we're all having fun in this thread. Actually I thought of another knife I could post.
Thank you, Garry. At the very least it is a legitimate trail knife, that's for sure.

FRJ wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 2:12 am And this Cold Steel Trail Master.

I'm sort of smuggling this thing in under the Bowie title.

No need to smuggle that thing, if that isn't a bowie knife, then there's no such thing.

Thank you, Ken.

FRJ wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 2:08 am Great knives everyone is showing.

I've got these. I like this style/pattern.

Top knife is a Utica Knife & Razor Co., Utica New York.
Czechoslovakia.

Middle knife is a Landers Frary & Clark.

Bottom knife is Crane Brand Cutlery.

I sure like the looks of that Crane Brand.

Thanks Ken, it is a nice knife.

Wish I would have taken the green off before the picture.

Here's a Westmark 701 I like a lot.

I like it as well. It is a good looking pattern.

Thanks for showing those Bowies FRJ!

Thank you, Garry.
You are very welcome, Steve.

Here are a few:
Rigid bowie(their words;not mine)that sports some amateur engraving.
Kershaw Golden Ram w/a blade cutout & scene similar to Jim Pugh's work.
Kershaw Golden Eagle.Two fixed blades by Jet-Aer(G96 brand).

FRJ wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:53 pm Thanks Ken, it is a nice knife.

Wish I would have taken the green off before the picture.

petekuhn wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 11:19 amA few more

Pete, outstanding collection of knives!

I am especially curious about the four folding knives on the bottom right

FRJ wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 2:12 am And this Cold Steel Trail Master.

I'm sort of smuggling this thing in under the Bowie title.

Ohhh that is a really GOOD knife!!!

these is hand forged by a local smith.

Thank you GSPTOPDOG.

I Sure like your knives. They are amazing, hand forged and all.
Certainly more soul those knives than any factory made Cold Steel.

FRJ wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:00 am Thank you GSPTOPDOG.

I Sure like your knives. They are amazing, hand forged and all.
Certainly more soul those knives than any factory made Cold Steel.

thanks Joe! I do have a soft spot for that big 'Ol Cold Steel trail master, back in the day it was at the top of the "commercial" food chain so to speak.. .