All About Pocket Knives

Jerry, I concur with Lawrence, your Puma collection is wonderful. I also like really like the Camillus Coca Cola.

While this is just being nit picky and of course I love seeing them here no matter what the variety, S-K’s Camillus on the last page is a cattle knife (looks to be a nice example of the WWII air corps knife), and your lovely Case Bradford, Farside, is as well (unless Case labeled this as a stockman). I think a defining feature of the stock knife is one with a clip blade as the master. Farside, your case is delightful. I think an appropriate name for it would be a fancy premier (or premium) cattle knife (fancy being the pearl handles, premier being the shape, and cattle knife being the blade arrangement with a spear as the master).
Great knives all,

Here are two I got today:
A KA-BAR 1071 mini stockman and a Browning USA stockman with rosewood handles.

thefarside wrote:Unusual old Case Bradford stockman. All blades are marked, pen has the pattern number 83074

I can't be sure if there is enough serpent teenyness to be a stockman (I think there IS) but I AM sure that I love that knife! Thanks for showing it!

H. Boker Gunstock.

Roger you have been posting some fine knives recently,Including this one.

peanut740 wrote:Roger you have been posting some fine knives recently,Including this one.

That would be 2017's biggest understatement so far.

Thanks guys; glad you liked them.

I would think for any Schrade guy an example of all four of the OT stockmans is a must have.

Junior, Middleman, Senior, and Lumberjack

Nice set Welker.
Here is an old 4" Robeson, 633585

thegreedygulo wrote:H. Boker Gunstock.

First time I've stopped by this thread in awhile and I'm blown away! A premium stock in every sense of the word.

Here's a tested era 6393 with steel liners

That must be a really sturdy feeling one Greg, really nice. How common or uncommon were case steel liners like this?

This is my favorite and most treasured stockman.

gwelker62 wrote:I would think for any Schrade guy an example of all four of the OT stockmans is a must have.

Junior, Middleman, Senior, and Lumberjack

Nice set, all you need to complete it is the 98OT Ramrod.

KnifeSlinger#81 wrote:That must be a really sturdy feeling one Greg, really nice. How common or uncommon were case steel liners like this?

Paul that is a common trait to wartime material shortages.That makes them a bit more rare and historic to me but I don't have any empirical data to back that up. They needed all the brass they could get for shell casings.

AR Norby wrote:

gwelker62 wrote:I would think for any Schrade guy an example of all four of the OT stockmans is a must have.

Junior, Middleman, Senior, and Lumberjack

Nice set, all you need to complete it is the 98OT Ramrod.

I just got outbid on a 98OT just a few mins ago.

There is also the 61OT Slim I'm hunting for. But would those two styles still be considered stockmans?

gwelker62 wrote:I just got outbid on a 98OT just a few mins ago.

There is also the 61OT Slim I'm hunting for. But would those two styles still be considered stockmans?

I think I know the 98ot you're talking about...

I would say both the 98ot and 61ot are bonafide stockmans.

Beechtree wrote:Nice set Welker.
Here is an old 4" Robeson, 633585

Beechtree that is my kind of knife!

KnifeSlinger#81 wrote:

I would say both the 98ot and 61ot are bonafide stockmans.

What would define a 'stockman' anyway. Don't think I've ever read anywhere what qualifies a knife to be one. I just always assumed it's a 3 blader on a serpentine frame that has a clip, spey, and sheepsfoot.

And isn't the main blade on the 98, 61, and 897UH considered a muskrat blade and not a clip?

gwelker62 wrote: What would define a 'stockman' anyway. Don't think I've ever read anywhere what qualifies a knife to be one. I just always assumed it's a 3 blader on a serpentine frame that has a clip, spey, and sheepsfoot.

And isn't the main blade on the 98, 61, and 897UH considered a muskrat blade and not a clip?

I don't know if there's an official qualification for a stockman, but for me it's a 3 or 4 blade serpentine frame. Doesn't always have to be clip, sheepsfoot and spey. It can be clip, spey and punch or clip sheepsfoot and pen etc. It's the frame style and 3 or more blade combination IMO.

The blade on slim stocks are usually called a california clip. They have many names. Whichever name you prefer it's still technically a clip blade. It may be safe to say a clip blade is mandatory to classify a knife as a stockman as long as the frame is serpentine or gunstock. There may be a couple other appropriate frames but I don't know. Cigar or equal end cattle knives are in the same vein but different, although cattle knife and stockman get interchanged a lot.

peanut740 wrote:

Beechtree wrote:Nice set Welker.
Here is an old 4" Robeson, 633585

Beechtree that is my kind of knife!

Thanks Peanut! It is a lovely one.

Paul, your 8813 is a beauty. There is a story on that particular one which I might tell you someday. Meanwhile, I am going to cheat a little bit, because this one is not old, but it was deliberately made to pay homage to the old ones and I am deeply grateful to own it.

And here is another 8813, of another color, you might say.

Wow! Cal those two blow me away, it truly does not get much better.

Great looking Stockmans.

Not sure if these are old enough to qualify (32 yrs), but I like to show them off

Here is one I just picked up,Schrade Cut Co SS 8813 kind of rare being Stainless,could not believe my luck.