All About Pocket Knives

tjmurphy wrote:

sakoblade wrote:Managed to steal a moment from all the other urgencies of life, so I can post a recent pick up.

A Wenoka, which is my first Japanese knife.

Jim

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As I scan through the ebay listings I'm kind of impressed with what I see. These Jap knives have nice bone or MOP handles and really look good, like yours. What do you think about the construction? F & F?

Well I have only unpacked it so haven't handled it much. But it looks great but is a bit rough.

I'll post a review in the appropriate forum in a couple of days along with detailed pics.

Jim

TripleF wrote:...and yes I know who Lawrence Welk was, used
to watch his show every Sunday evening.

And uh one. And uh two.

Isn't that a-wunderful.

You got it T.J.

The Queen came in the mail, picked up the pacific rim Schrade at Academy sports clearance rack, it's a hunk of steel and bone, shaving sharp out of the blister pack.

Colonel26 wrote:Nothing as high class as what you high rollers are bringing in, but I was tickled to get this in the mail today. Victorinox Executive. It's my favorite if the smaller SAK's.

No true knife lover would go without a SAK in his collection.

These two beauties came in today. Minty w/ low serial#s, box, shipping sleave, papers, and sheath.

Shapleigh Hardware trapper.

ken98k wrote:Shapleigh Hardware trapper.

Ken that's beautiful! I love that bone. And that swedge too!

I've gotten lucky the last few days and picked up these 2 split back whittlers locally.
The mail man brought the counterfeiting antique cutlery book.
Kerry

I sho like those green bone Schrades.

gwelker62 wrote:I sho like those green bone Schrades.

I thought about you when I bought it. You are sure stacking up the Schrades.
Kerry

gwelker62 wrote:These two beauties came in today. Minty w/ low serial#s, box, shipping sleave, papers, and sheath.

Nice. What the serial on the lb7?

Case Saddlehorn in green apple color - single blade version is not as common - really nice and thin, with a rock solid half stop - the swell at the end fills the hand & makes it really comfortable to hold.

Best part is it doesn't have the oddly shaped quasi-trapper blade they usually put on the medium frame Saddlehorns as the secondary blade - that is the one blade design I think Tony Bose didn't get right

ludwig26 wrote: I thought about you when I bought it. You are sure stacking up the Schrades.
Kerry

The funny thing is, as much as I live the green bone, have only one knife with green bone scales.
Probably gonna start targeting some Heritage Schrades next month.

KnifeSlinger#81 wrote:
Nice. What the serial on the lb7?

38188

It's my first LB7. Never really cared for them for some reason, until I got this one in hand. They are a much better looking knife than what shows in a picture.

That's an early one, maybe first year? I have a 2nd year one minty in box. I think it's in the 90 thousands, I'll have to check later. The lb7 is one of the greatest production knives ever, you get so much knife for the money.

GEC 23 barn red bone from bdev, thanks man!
And on the same day I get this green bone Case 664052.
Great additions to the collection

KnifeSlinger#81 wrote:That's an early one, maybe first year? I have a 2nd year one minty in box. I think it's in the 90 thousands, I'll have to check later. The lb7 is one of the greatest production knives ever, you get so much knife for the money.

Think I read somewhere Schrade made in excess of 40 million LB7s. I would bet any below the 99k mark is a first year production. Does it have 4 pins? 3 holding the scales and 1 rocker?

Lansky1 wrote:Best part is it doesn't have the oddly shaped quasi-trapper blade they usually put on the medium frame Saddlehorns as the secondary blade - that is the one blade design I think Tony Bose didn't get right

The skinner blade? I think that's the best part of the Bose-designed saddlehorns (and my Boker copperheads)!
Takes all kinds...

LB7 # 38188 puts it into the second year of production, 1978. LB7 production began sometime in 1977 and by years end they were up to just over 19,000. By end of 1978 they were up to ~ 212,000.
kj

gwelker62 wrote:Think I read somewhere Schrade made in excess of 40 million LB7s. I would bet any below the 99k mark is a first year production. Does it have 4 pins? 3 holding the scales and 1 rocker?

Yes it's a 4 pin. I was a little off, it's #71261. I was told second year production by the gentleman I bought if from and believe me he would most certainly know.

Here are a few I picked up this week; still sticking to the wharncliffe theme (for the most part).
~Q~

QTCut5 wrote:Here are a few I picked up this week; still sticking to the wharncliffe theme (for the most part).

Loving that double-Wharnie Queen canoe, Q! I think I would have broken a Wharnie theme for that AGR, too.

Good looking hand there ~Q~. I don't believe I've ever seen a Queen in that pattern from that era. S&M, current era but not Queen. Very nice.

My Camillus 18 came today. You have to look at the blade edge under magnification to tell it has cut something but the rest of the knife looks factory fresh. 197x-198x tang stamp and Indian Stag Delrin® handles. Very snappy. I'm very satisfied.