All About Pocket Knives

FRJ wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:01 am Here's a sweet old Congress Jack. 3 7/8" closed.
Thanks for looking.

FRJ wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:01 am Here's a sweet old Congress Jack. 3 7/8" closed.
Thanks for looking.

knowtracks wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:54 pm Two real Beauties right there Lloyd!! You prompted me to dig mine out and to a comparison with the lockback....soon to follow!
I also have one of those metal "tweezers" Miller Bro's!! Only two I've ever seen but I'd bet they made a bunch of em!
Thank You Danno!!
Here's a barehead jack with some sweet honey bone that looks like it's brand new! Half stops and snaps like a trap!!
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Dave

celluloidheros wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:21 am

knowtracks wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:54 pm Two real Beauties right there Lloyd!! You prompted me to dig mine out and to a comparison with the lockback....soon to follow!
I also have one of those metal "tweezers" Miller Bro's!! Only two I've ever seen but I'd bet they made a bunch of em!
Thank You Danno!!
Here's a barehead jack with some sweet honey bone that looks like it's brand new! Half stops and snaps like a trap!!
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Dave

hello, some of the SM knives you post seem like more recent made knives and some are older. Do you have access to newer made parts or are they just mint old examples ? Many of the knives are just fantastic examples. great collection !

knowtracks wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:52 am PS I think I've only posted bout half my collection

knowtracks wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:52 am

celluloidheros wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:21 am

knowtracks wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:54 pm Two real Beauties right there Lloyd!! You prompted me to dig mine out and to a comparison with the lockback....soon to follow!
I also have one of those metal "tweezers" Miller Bro's!! Only two I've ever seen but I'd bet they made a bunch of em!
Thank You Danno!!
Here's a barehead jack with some sweet honey bone that looks like it's brand new! Half stops and snaps like a trap!!
IMG_3040.jpg


Dave

They are some real beauties.

hello, some of the SM knives you post seem like more recent made knives and some are older. Do you have access to newer made parts or are they just mint old examples ? Many of the knives are just fantastic examples. great collection !

All the knives I've posted in this thread are original S&M made in Titusville acquired from several sources.
Just like all the knives I've posted in the Gowanda thread are original from there.

Dave

PS I think I've only posted bout half my collection

knowtracks wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 12:52 am Thanks cudgee! Than one is as close to pristine as any T-ville Schatt that I've ever seen!
Week or so back Lloyd/Duffer posted his Beautiful Lockback and Advertising S&M's, and it got me to thinkin........
One of the things that was so to me was that Queen bought Schatt and Morgan lock, stock and barrel. So that when, under Bill Howard's hand, Queen decided to make the Annual Reproduction or Keystone Series and then the File and Wire Series, they were making these old S&M patterns with the same old original machinery, set-ups, tooling and work benches. Making the same exact pocket cutlery, in the same exact way, at the same exact work stations as they were made dang near a 100 yrs ago. Still basically made by hand by skilled cutlers. I really hated to see Queen go down so much American cutlery history.
Anyway....... that was the long way around the barn for this comparison of the Original and the F&W Lockbacks.
I expect everyone reading this knows it's a big knife @ 5 1/2" and the lock release is positioned way closer to the pivot than most lockbacks.
Just the bottom bolster and subtle differences between the two. The rat tail size and where the cut swedge stops. The pull placement and length, pin locations, thickness of the blade and spring are exactly the same.
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Dave