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Definitely attractive handles on that one.

These 3 Case knives arrived a couple hours ago.....

In the mail today was a nifty Queen #2 in Winterbottom (my first knife in Winterbottom). This one has the blade etch, but no tang stamp, so it is 1961-71. It even came with a cool leather sheath!

TwoFlowersLuggage wrote:In the mail today was a nifty Queen #2 in Winterbottom (my first knife in Winterbottom). This one has the blade etch, but no tang stamp, so it is 1961-71. It even came with a cool leather sheath!

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Nice pick-up. It is 1961-71 and has Winterbottom delrin handles. I like that sheath.

TwoFlowersLuggage wrote:In the mail today was a nifty Queen #2 in Winterbottom (my first knife in Winterbottom). This one has the blade etch, but no tang stamp, so it is 1961-71. It even came with a cool leather sheath!

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Hey boss, what's the closed length on that little beauty?

jerryd6818 wrote:

TwoFlowersLuggage wrote:In the mail today was a nifty Queen #2 in Winterbottom (my first knife in Winterbottom). This one has the blade etch, but no tang stamp, so it is 1961-71. It even came with a cool leather sheath!

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Hey boss, what's the closed length on that little beauty?

3 1/4"

jerryd6818 wrote:

TwoFlowersLuggage wrote:In the mail today was a nifty Queen #2 in Winterbottom (my first knife in Winterbottom). This one has the blade etch, but no tang stamp, so it is 1961-71. It even came with a cool leather sheath!

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Hey boss, what's the closed length on that little beauty?

Yup - as bdev said, it is 3.25".

TwoFlowersLuggage wrote:

jerryd6818 wrote:

TwoFlowersLuggage wrote:In the mail today was a nifty Queen #2 in Winterbottom (my first knife in Winterbottom). This one has the blade etch, but no tang stamp, so it is 1961-71. It even came with a cool leather sheath!

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Hey boss, what's the closed length on that little beauty?

Yup - as bdev said, it is 3.25".

Hey TwoFlowers....it would be great if you could cross post this knife to the Queen forum so we can discuss it. I have a few with different tang stamps and we could also see what other members have in this pattern.
Thanks.....Bruno

Thanks.

You did good 2FL.

The postman just dropped off these two.

An Imperial Kameo Karved Jack D-400 with a serrated edge main blade (circa 1952-56). Never saw that before. It measures 3 3/8".
The other is a Remington R4243 Camp Bullet Knife made in 1994. This thing is HUGE. Measures 4 7/8". Check it out compared to the Imperial.

Seems unusual the serrated main blade. But the big Remington is a score.

Nice knives. The punch blade on the R4243 has to have the biggest punch ever made.

espn77 wrote:Nice knives. The punch blade on the R4243 has to have the biggest punch ever made.

3"

Nice knives Bruno. That Imperial gives a whole new meaning to 'stag' handles and the serrated blade really adds to it's uniqueness. The Remington is one sweet and serious bit of hardware in a folder.

Picked these two up recently. Wanted to compare and contrast for anyone interested. If not, a more sympathetic ear you will not find, please skip to the last paragraph. Otherwise I picked these two because they're from the same factory, same people made them, same frame, pattern #56, size, weight. But the similarities begin and end right there and they feel like completely different knives and that surprised me. The Northwoods Fayette has orange Giraffe bone which, as pretty as it looks in pics, the camera doesn't do it justice. Just doesn't pick up the depth of color and variety. Within the bone little specs of black, brown, red, yellow, white, clear, orange, gray/bluish. They come in layers like you can look down in. The bone is not smooth like other bones I have, it's porous and has little holes and grooves all over so it's not like other smooth bone I have. It's forever interesting going over the different areas of the bone. Every square millimeter is different colored, textured, grained. The Tidioute Bird Dog doesn't have any of that. The canvas micarta is the best to me, love the color, the pattern of the fabric, the texture, the feel. Love that. But the color is flat, plain, and no difference anywhere on the knife. Not as fun to look at, not much to explore visually. Giraffe bone might be the best bone I've ever seen. The micarta is like they all are, whatever fabric you like, you know what I mean. The Northwoods has a nice Wharncliffe. It's grind and size are perfect for me, not too thin at the end, looks sharp with the scale left on the flats, the swedge line, the grind termination, the nice long pull, stamped "Northwoods on the blade. The Tidioute is plain satin finish flat grind spear. Very nice, not unique or striking, I have others just like. The Fayette has mirror polished bolsters, steel liners, excellent finish and buffed to high gloss shine everywhere from blade to bones, liners, pins, everything finished. The Tidioute has satin finish and brushed bolsters, don't think they buffed anything including scales. Satin is good, I like it, but it never looks totally finished. Brushed bolsters look cool but show every scuff and nick big time. The grind looks good, but like they forgot to sand and buff. The Fayette has a stout, aggressive half stop. The Bird Dog has none, smooth open and closed like a cam. Nice snap open and closed on both. The Fayette swedge looks perfect to the eye, blade looks dead centered. The Bird Dog swedge is off slightly, you can see it, and the tip is blunt compared to the Fayette. The centering looks slightly off but close to middle. The Fayette snaps just a bit stronger, not a gator or bear trap at all. Maybe 6. Right where I like it. The Bird Dogs is good, but maybe a 4, doesn't snap open or closed as authoritatively as the Fayette. Fayette has steel liners and it looks great, like one piece. The Bird Dog has brass and happens to look great accenting the canvas micarta yellow, and I wouldn't change it on this knife. But I prefer steel liners usually. Fayette has long pull, Bird dog a nick. Either works but long pull looks better to me, and seems deeper, easier to get a nail into. They both pinch open for me anyway, don't need to use the nick or pull. That's nice. And the Fayette wharn spine sticks out more when closed so it's easier to pinch open, but the Bird Dog can be pinched too, just a little more difficult because less spine sticks out. The Wharncliffe blade is longer, has a little more edge, that's nice when slicing or peeling. It also doesn't belly up so you have more straight edge to work with when peeling/slicing. The spear bellies up early and far enough from the tip to negate a half inch of blade so you can't slice as deep, or slice as large of whatever it is you're slicing because the blade feels and is shorter. The spear is fairly blunt compared to the wharn.

Aside from the comparative differences which are based on individual opinion which ever one you prefer, there is objectivity in pricing. The Bird Dog was seventy five shipped. The Fayette was one hundred eighty nine. Do the math, that's one hundred and fourteen more for the Northwoods. And they sold out in five minutes so you can't dally and plenty of people will pay that and even much more for it. It might cost you an arm and a leg, but you can easily flip that and recover your arm, your leg, and someone else's arm and leg, and maybe two arms and a leg back in profit. Guaranteed. I don't know if this Bird Dog can hunt like that. If it can, it can't hunt as large of a profit and it can't find as much profit like the Northwoods. Never. However it probably won't lose money, it will gain a bit and be worth slightly more than you paid down the road. Small numbers made on both. But I can't believe these two are the same frame and pattern. They seem like they should be about the same, but clearly they are not. I like both and for how different they are it's nice having that variety in the same size and shape. The size and shape are great to me, not too big to be obnoxious to carry in shorts and not to small to be ineffective. That's just me. For what it's worth, hope it helped if you're interested. Thanks.

The shield on that bullet knife is a 30-30, correct? I think it would be interesting to see the size of that Remington next to a 30-30 cartridge...

On a side note, I'm now past 80 knives in my collection - is there a special prize I get when I break 100? Entry into the inner sanctum of the Ministry of Silly Sods? Or does that require 1000 knives??

Great review, Ivoryman! Very informative. It's a good thing for my wallet that I can't easily pick up one of those Northwoods, because you made me want one

TwoFlowersLuggage wrote:The shield on that bullet knife is a 30-30, correct? I think it would be interesting to see the size of that Remington next to a 30-30 cartridge...

Looks like a 30-30 but a 30-30 is a rimmed cartridge. The shield is not. It's probably just a rendering of a rifle cartridge and not a specific one.

The original shield is of a rimmed cartridge.

You might post that comparison in the review section IMAN!!!

These just arrived...

Laguiole Bougna 1421 Knife folding bowie
Mockba hobo knife
mermaid knife....

TripleF wrote: ...Mockba hobo knife ...

Interesting pick-up. Завод стальных изделий (СТИЗ), г.Москва - Steel products factory - Moskow. This is Russian from the time of the USSR. It should be able to be disassembled in three parts.
By the way, it is interesting to share some impressions for the knife. I had the same many years ago, but somebody stole it when I was in the army.

espn77 wrote:The original shield is of a rimmed cartridge.

It sure is.

[quote="TripleF"]You might post that comparison in the review section IMAN!!!

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Got a link FFF? That's somewhere I've never been, I only see a tiny bit of this place. Thanks.

I enjoyed reading your comparison of the two 'different' versions of the 56 dogleg Ivoryman. I think its a very nice usable knife pattern and you have a couple goods ones there. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on them. I liked the pattern enough myself to grab two also.

Scott, those are a couple cool and not so ordinary knives you scored, nice pick-ups.

Heres my second dogleg, arrived yesterday;