All About Pocket Knives

JEARL wrote: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??

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

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

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?

tjmurphy wrote:The Canal Street Hawbaker Special is single spring.

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

biglmbass wrote:

tjmurphy wrote: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

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. [

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

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

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

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.

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

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 . . .

Here's an 80's era Case hawbaker.

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.