All About Pocket Knives

Jerry so sorry to hear this, hasn't happened to me yet, but I've been worrying about it. It sucks and it is happening at a alarming rate. I know retailers have a lot of trouble with shop lifters and now it seems the Amazon type places are having their own problems. I guess they have this all figured into the profit model.
Oh well got mine today, uspo came through again. I've got several of the old Anvils but none as nice a these.
These could be probably considered as nos. 13 bucks and change shipped. [attachment=1]20190903_185543.jpg[/attachment]

jerryd6818 wrote:My GEC #97 Ram Foot came today but it never made it into the house. In the hour and a half between the time it was delivered at 12:59 PM and 2:30 (or so) when I went out to check the mail, it was stolen off the front porch. This day SUCKS. For all the good it will do, I did file a police report.

My condolences, sorry to hear that, and really hope your day gets better. Dirty thieves suck. Right there with you.

Homer that's a sweet pair. Congrats and good score buddy.

jerryd6818 wrote:My GEC #97 Ram Foot came today but it never made it into the house. In the hour and a half between the time it was delivered at 12:59 PM and 2:30 (or so) when I went out to check the mail, it was stolen off the front porch. This day SUCKS. For all the good it will do, I did file a police report.

Jerry, I've got the Ram's Foot in Antique Autumn Jig Bone...Pm me your address and I'll send it to you...just my turn to make someones shitty day a little better.

jerryd6818 wrote:My GEC #97 Ram Foot came today but it never made it into the house. In the hour and a half between the time it was delivered at 12:59 PM and 2:30 (or so) when I went out to check the mail, it was stolen off the front porch. This day SUCKS. For all the good it will do, I did file a police report.

This occurrence really makes me appreciate my PO Box I've had for the the last 36 years to stop having to do changes of address 3 times in the first year living in this city. On top of that I appreciate the addition of being able to have UPS and FedEx packages dropped at my box location that started within the last few years. Any luck maybe they delivered to same number a street or so over from you and that person would get to you. Fingers crossed for you.

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Sweeeeeeeeeet Case bones there Winchester. I also like your little tag line about carrying ugly knives. Right on.

X2!! Sweet knives!!

Picked up this Moore Maker 3206DLB for its similarity to the Camillus 716. I could be wrong but I believe Bear MGC is the actual manufacturer of most of the MM line.
As a standalone knife the MM isn't to bad if their 1095 is done well which only time will tell. Compared to the 716 it doesn't do very well IMHO.

Trace, Based on my inquiries MM used quite a few different companies: Camillus, Queen, Baer & Sons, Utica,even Boker, GEC, and even Canal Street Cutlery on occasion. Currently I believe Baer is the most common, certainly for their cheaper knives. There was a period when MM would place a letter at the end of the serial number to indicate the manufacturer. Thus, B for Baer, U for Utica, etc. You may wish to check your serial # for such a mark. I do not know for how long MM followed this practice.

Ivoryman wrote:Sweeeeeeeeeet Case bones there Winchester. I also like your little tag line about carrying ugly knives. Right on.

I couldn't agree more! That barlow looks like a handle of glowing embers. AWESOME!!

Quick Steel wrote:Received this Bull Dog "Celebrated Anglo Saxon Knife;" a 5 1/8" Whittler with very nicely figured Buffalo Horn handles. 5th generation. Was looking for this for two years. I'll eventually post more pictures on the Bulldog thread.

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Nice looking knife QS, beautiful horn scales.

Case XX 6383 wrote:1974 6380

Awfully nice find Mr Case XX 6383.

Winchester M21 wrote:10 dots

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Two more beauties, exceptional bone on those.

dweb1897 wrote:

jerryd6818 wrote:My GEC #97 Ram Foot came today but it never made it into the house. In the hour and a half between the time it was delivered at 12:59 PM and 2:30 (or so) when I went out to check the mail, it was stolen off the front porch. This day SUCKS. For all the good it will do, I did file a police report.

Jerry, I've got the Ram's Foot in Antique Autumn Jig Bone...Pm me your address and I'll send it to you...just my turn to make someones shitty day a little better.

"dweb1897" - My friend, that is a fantastic gesture, the piece of filth that stole the knife will never know the pleasure of doing something good. The good "Karma" bus will pay you back in spades one day, well done. And you have a great weekend.

Got these 2 back from Mr. T. Wood today. \
The barlow had a broken pen blade....had it removed.
The CASE XX had shattered scales, and they were replaced with Wenge wood. Beauty!

Great work Tony. Happy for you Scott.

cudgee wrote:

dweb1897 wrote:

jerryd6818 wrote:My GEC #97 Ram Foot came today but it never made it into the house. In the hour and a half between the time it was delivered at 12:59 PM and 2:30 (or so) when I went out to check the mail, it was stolen off the front porch. This day SUCKS. For all the good it will do, I did file a police report.

Jerry, I've got the Ram's Foot in Antique Autumn Jig Bone...Pm me your address and I'll send it to you...just my turn to make someones shitty day a little better.

"dweb1897" - My friend, that is a fantastic gesture, the piece of filth that stole the knife will never know the pleasure of doing something good. The good "Karma" bus will pay you back in spades one day, well done. And you have a great weekend.

Doug is a good man with a kind and generous heart.

I was thinking of steering the "Karma bus" in the other direction so that the thief would think twice about ever stealing jerryd's mail again. My nefarious plan was to send jerryd a POS knife covered with some kind of white powder. I would instruct jerryd to simply leave the package in the same place as the one that was stolen and let the thief take it. Inside the pkg would be a note saying that the powder is a deadly toxin and whoever touches it has only a few hours to get the antidote before they begin a slow, agonizing and painful death. To get the antidote, they must first return the stolen GEC knife to jerryd and apologize. (If/when they do show up at his door with the stolen knife, jerryd could give them a big dose of ipecac syrup mixed with ex-lax and tell them it's the only known antidote. )

I thought it was a pretty good plan, but my wife did not. (Clearly she doesn't appreciate the value of a new GEC! ) So, I'm sorry, jerryd, I guess all I can send you is my deepest sympathy. I feel bad for you, my friend.

I just hope the dirty rotten lowdown POS thief doesn't get the knife Doug sends as well.

Just received this Bulldog Seahorse Whittler. 4" OAL. The F&F are very fine. This knife is so comfortable in my hand I may have to get another for EDC. More photos will be posted in the BD thread.

dweb1897 wrote:

jerryd6818 wrote:My GEC #97 Ram Foot came today but it never made it into the house. In the hour and a half between the time it was delivered at 12:59 PM and 2:30 (or so) when I went out to check the mail, it was stolen off the front porch. This day SUCKS. For all the good it will do, I did file a police report.

Jerry, I've got the Ram's Foot in Antique Autumn Jig Bone...Pm me your address and I'll send it to you...just my turn to make someones shitty day a little better.

Doug, you have a PM and thank you very much for your over the top thoughtfulness.

Great looking Seahorse you got there Quick Steel!
I love it !!!

Danke TPK. I love it too. I'm going to guess you live close to Munchen, a favorite city of mine.

QTCut5 wrote:

cudgee wrote:

dweb1897 wrote:
Jerry, I've got the Ram's Foot in Antique Autumn Jig Bone...Pm me your address and I'll send it to you...just my turn to make someones shitty day a little better.

"dweb1897" - My friend, that is a fantastic gesture, the piece of filth that stole the knife will never know the pleasure of doing something good. The good "Karma" bus will pay you back in spades one day, well done. And you have a great weekend.

Doug is a good man with a kind and generous heart.

I was thinking of steering the "Karma bus" in the other direction so that the thief would think twice about ever stealing jerryd's mail again. My nefarious plan was to send jerryd a POS knife covered with some kind of white powder. I would instruct jerryd to simply leave the package in the same place as the one that was stolen and let the thief take it. Inside the pkg would be a note saying that the powder is a deadly toxin and whoever touches it has only a few hours to get the antidote before they begin a slow, agonizing and painful death. To get the antidote, they must first return the stolen GEC knife to jerryd and apologize. (If/when they do show up at his door with the stolen knife, jerryd could give them a big dose of ipecac syrup mixed with ex-lax and tell them it's the only known antidote. )

I thought it was a pretty good plan, but my wife did not. (Clearly she doesn't appreciate the value of a new GEC! ) So, I'm sorry, jerryd, I guess all I can send you is my deepest sympathy. I feel bad for you, my friend.

I just hope the dirty rotten lowdown POS thief doesn't get the knife Doug sends as well.

I am in conflict with your wife I like your plan, well thought out, and great minds think alike.

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Today I picked up this Kutmaster "VANADIUM STEEL", 3 blade, swelled center, whittler, pocket knife. No cleaning necessary.

Per Wikipedia, "Vanadium is a chemical element with the symbol V and atomic number 23. It is a hard, silvery-grey, ductile, malleable transition metal. The elemental metal is rarely found in nature, but once isolated artificially, the formation of an oxide layer (passivation) somewhat stabilizes the free metal against further oxidation." (very brief description)

Quick Steel wrote:Danke TPK. I love it too. I'm going to guess you live close to Munchen, a favorite city of mine.

Yes it's a nice city but very expensive to live in. In fact it's one of, If not the most expensive cities in Germany to live in. I live in the same State but about 3.5-hrs. from there. I'm about 1.5-hrs. from Frankfurt where their largest International Airport is.

Question answered by post in another thread.

Awesome group of knives Winchester!!! Those red/brown mixed colored handels look great!!!



And N-W-NY that Kutmaster is a real beauty as well!!! What does Vandium do? Is it harder or is it more rust resistive? Or both?