Hawbaker Special

[tjmurphy]

I am interested in starting a collection of the Hawbaker Specials. Wondering if anyone could share some pics. and some info. Doesn't matter what brand. Thanks Jeff

I guess that my main point was that there are "Hawbaker Specials" and there are Hawbaker Patterns which are not Hawbaker Specials. Make sense??

[JEARL]

I am guessing that if it is marked hawbaker special it is, if not it is a improved muskrat? Even if it has the hawbaker blade?

Jeff

[tjmurphy]

The "improved" tag that I hung on it may not be a totally accurate description, maybe "Hawbaker patttern" is better. But as far as I know, all Hawbaker Specials, with the exception of the very first one, are marked as such and were authorized by the Hawbaker family. I may be speaking completely out of my bounderies of expertise, but as I recall, that's what all the literature says. This is some pretty interesting reading. Scroll down to page 319 and there is a topic about the "Hawbaker Specials" which may make it more clear. http://books.google.com/books?id=LL_7wQ ... &q&f=false

[Dave O]

tj, how come you have no calluses on those hands?? Lets see some on the tips of your fingers! Is that Martin too light to make a callus?

[biglmbass]

The Canal Street Hawbaker Special is single spring.

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Thanks. While you've got it close, how thick is it?

[tjmurphy]

The Canal Street Hawbaker Special is single spring.

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Thanks. While you've got it close, how thick is it?

5/32 across the back

[tjmurphy]

quote="Dave O"]tj, how come you have no calluses on those hands?? Lets see some on the tips of your fingers! Is that Martin too light to make a callus?[/quote]
Got nothing serious on the finger-tips. The HD-28 is a HOSS but it plays easy. I won't keep a guitar that hurts my fingers/hands or breaks strings. I play a pretty heavy rythem but haven't broken a string in 10-years. The last strings I broke were during the same song, nearly at the same time. Broke the G and the B. It was a brand new set of Elixer strings. Needless to say it was the first and last set of those strings I ever used. I currently use Martin SP-4200's, medium phosphorus bronze.

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[Billswfl]

This is a Case 1982 Improved Muskrat it was supposed to be a Hawbaker Special but some were rejected because of the quality of the bone. The front scales look good but the rear has a lot of white showing.
Bill

[tjmurphy]

Yeppers, that's what the cited article says. That's a good one to have, should be pretty rare.

[Billswfl]

TJ there are probably fewer of these then the Hawbakers.
Bill

[tjmurphy]

Absotively!! Posilutely!!

Case had other problems with their handles in the 80's. A friend of mine has two or three with handles dyed red that bled into whatever they were touching. The paper they're wrapped in has more color than the handles.

[JEARL]

Picked up my first Hawbaker traded with Tim Greene. I was down at the flea market today and my knife guy said he is picking up a case xx 1940-64 hawbaker, and is going to call me when he gets it. I was looking in my Sargent's book and it says there is 2 varieties a fine jigged and a coarse jigged. I was wondering if anyone has any pics. of one or have a case knife with coarse jigging.

Thanks Jeff

[1967redrider]

Cool bear trap!

I have this coon-stripe Bulldog with a Hawbaker blade, I think there's another one kicking around in my collection somewhere . . .

[bamafan]

Here's an 80's era Case hawbaker.

[1967redrider]

I knew I had another one somewhere.

This is a delrin Winchester made in the USA, part of The Scout set, 1 of 1,000. Unfortunately the little pocket watch has the "C" word on it. But I like it none the less!

I'm slowly warming up to delrin.