All About Pocket Knives

cudgee wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 7:52 pm

TPK wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:10 am

cudgee wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 12:34 am Been waiting on these for 3 weeks, they arrived this morning. All A. wright and son. They are left to right [ if the pic comes out as it should ], lamb foot snakewood, lamb foot driftwood and a Bunny knife rosewood. Hope you all have a good weekend, and my thoughts with anyone affected by the devastating fires in California.
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Nice set you got there cudgee! Especially that bunny knife.
I like small knives and the term "bunny knife" is new to me. I'll have to remember that term. Thanks

Thanks Mate, glad that you like them. The term bunny knife has nothing to do with the size of the knife. It is a " Term " that was instigated in Australia roughly 100 years ago. It relates to the fact that this style of knife was used by rabbit hunters as their preferred knife style, back then we had plague proportions of rabbits, and many men hunted rabbits as their job and made a good living out of it, especially through the depression. The main brand of "bunny knife" was a Joseph Rodgers from England, this was my first knife over 50 years ago. You have a good weekend mate.

Thanks, I learned something about Australia and why "Bunny knives" are called that. Good deal and Cheers Mate!

New_Windsor_NY wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 8:40 pm Yesterday, I received this Imperial Mexico, single blade, 1 1/2" closed (not including the bail), fob style pocket watch. The pictures are mine. Click on a picture to ENLARGE.

Hi Skip,

Nice little Imperial. I knew of Imperial USA & Irland. Now theres also Mexico. Did they produce in any other countries?
As always, just curious.

Take care Skip

TPK wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 11:20 pm

New_Windsor_NY wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 8:40 pm Yesterday, I received this Imperial Mexico, single blade, 1 1/2" closed (not including the bail), fob style pocket watch. The pictures are mine. Click on a picture to ENLARGE.

Hi Skip,

Nice little Imperial. I knew of Imperial USA & Irland. Now theres also Mexico. Did they produce in any other countries?
As always, just curious.

Take care Skip

England I think there were others but can't remember what they were.

Yo crew, things finally back to normal around here (if you can call that a good thing - ). Finally got me hands on a "new" camera (bro upgraded). Here's to start the "new" hobby.
Last 2 months pick-ups...
Passle of knives...
Beaver Creek Dreadnought Acoustic
Digitech Multi-effects pedal
Boss Looper pedal
Logitech Pro headset

Queen #45 "Big Chief" (Bomb from down south) and Queen imitation Winterbottom stockman (long tail Q tang stamp).
Both great edc's, especially the stockman, "won" it for $20 plus $5 shipping .

GEC #29 Northfield Bloodwood

GEC 2011 #25 5 of 25 Green Saw Cut Bone Barlow

Morakniv Companion MG

2019 AAPK GEC and 2011 #61 Snakewood Half Congress

Nice pickups WillyC!
What's the closed length of the Queen stockman?

Hey Trace. Thank you, I think either 3 5/8" or 3 3/4". I'll check tomorrow.

Thanks for the info Jerry!

So now we have Imperial USA, IRLAND, MEXICO & ENGLAND. If anybody knows of others, let me know. Guess I could just check the Internet and find out. Imperials (1 or 2) from each country they were made in would make a cool set. Maybe I"ll try that some day after I get the set of 5 Case's I'm looking for. I did pick up 2 Imperials from the USA when I was in MD so I already have a start. I've seen Irland on the bay here so those & England shouldn't be to hard for me to get. Mexico could be harder to find.


Hi Willy,

Nice pics, nice knives, nice guitar, my son (18) just started learning to play electric guitar.

Take care everybody,
Tom

Thanks Tom, and I wish your son great luck learning/playing guitar, he will need it. First 3 months or so will be a slog (I know, i'm 3 months in myself full time), after that it all starts to come together. Make sure he hits some youtube lessons, learns to play a few simple songs along with all the cord and scale practice, makes it feel like a person is progressing, not just wasting there time .
And good info on Imperial .

TPK wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 11:14 pm

cudgee wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 7:52 pm

TPK wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:10 am

Nice set you got there cudgee! Especially that bunny knife.
I like small knives and the term "bunny knife" is new to me. I'll have to remember that term. Thanks

Thanks Mate, glad that you like them. The term bunny knife has nothing to do with the size of the knife. It is a " Term " that was instigated in Australia roughly 100 years ago. It relates to the fact that this style of knife was used by rabbit hunters as their preferred knife style, back then we had plague proportions of rabbits, and many men hunted rabbits as their job and made a good living out of it, especially through the depression. The main brand of "bunny knife" was a Joseph Rodgers from England, this was my first knife over 50 years ago. You have a good weekend mate.

Thanks, I learned something about Australia and why "Bunny knives" are called that. Good deal and Cheers Mate!

G,day mate, hope you are having a good weekend. Really glad to see your interest in the " Bunny Knife" and glad that you have learnt a bit about Australia. Thought that you might be interested in my collection, so thought i would post it for you, sadly i lost my first one which i received over 50 years ago. These are from the top down- A Wright and Son Rosewood, A Wright and Son Rosewood, Taylors Eye Witness Acrylic and Joseph Rodgers Polished Rosewood. The different colors of rosewood show just how much the color of wood can vary.

cudgee wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:36 am

TPK wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 11:14 pm

cudgee wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 7:52 pm

Thanks Mate, glad that you like them. The term bunny knife has nothing to do with the size of the knife. It is a " Term " that was instigated in Australia roughly 100 years ago. It relates to the fact that this style of knife was used by rabbit hunters as their preferred knife style, back then we had plague proportions of rabbits, and many men hunted rabbits as their job and made a good living out of it, especially through the depression. The main brand of "bunny knife" was a Joseph Rodgers from England, this was my first knife over 50 years ago. You have a good weekend mate.

Thanks, I learned something about Australia and why "Bunny knives" are called that. Good deal and Cheers Mate!

G,day mate, hope you are having a good weekend. Really glad to see your interest in the " Bunny Knife" and glad that you have learnt a bit about Australia. Thought that you might be interested in my collection, so thought i would post it for you, sadly i lost my first one which i received over 50 years ago. These are from the top down- A Wright and Son Rosewood, A Wright and Son Rosewood, Taylors Eye Witness Acrylic and Joseph Rodgers Polished Rosewood. The different colors of rosewood show just how much the color of wood can vary.
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Great looking set of knives cudgee! Like how the black handles are bright & shiny. The shiny silver blade makes a great contrast to the shiny black handles. TOP!
I'm sure I'm not the only one who enjoys looking at them so thanks for posting that!
Do you guys have any other knives that are, how do I say it, especially Australien or different from what you've seen on the AAPK?

Thanks Mate and you may want to check out WBT on the ASX. They might just be on to something. Who knows?
Cheers,
Tom

TPK wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:59 am

cudgee wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:36 am

TPK wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 11:14 pm

Thanks, I learned something about Australia and why "Bunny knives" are called that. Good deal and Cheers Mate!

G,day mate, hope you are having a good weekend. Really glad to see your interest in the " Bunny Knife" and glad that you have learnt a bit about Australia. Thought that you might be interested in my collection, so thought i would post it for you, sadly i lost my first one which i received over 50 years ago. These are from the top down- A Wright and Son Rosewood, A Wright and Son Rosewood, Taylors Eye Witness Acrylic and Joseph Rodgers Polished Rosewood. The different colors of rosewood show just how much the color of wood can vary.
IMAG0224.jpg

Great looking set of knives cudgee! Like how the black handles are bright & shiny. The shiny silver blade makes a great contrast to the shiny black handles. TOP!
I'm sure I'm not the only one who enjoys looking at them so thanks for posting that!
Do you guys have any other knives that are, how do I say it, especially Australien or different from what you've seen on the AAPK?

Thanks Mate and you may want to check out WBT on the ASX. They might just be on to something. Who knows?
Cheers,
Tom

Not really, this style of knife was "Adopted" because of it was a single blade perfect for skinning rabbits and easy to carry. When i was a kid a lot of farmers carried Lamb Foot or Sheep Foot knives, they were just called farmers knives or work knives. But all our early knives came from the mother country - England.

Hi knife friends,

I brought some "Season All" seasoned salt back from the states in August and traded it for a Camillus. Today I went down in the furnace room and cleaned it up a bit. It has some pitting but it still has some really good snap. I'm happy to add it to my pile.

My Knife Cleaning Tipp For The Day Is:

If you take a flat headed screw driver and press extra fine steel wool down to the bottom of a tight knife well, it's hard to get the crap back out!

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Good evening everyone, hope the upcoming week is good for all. Just posting a couple more photos of a couple of A Wright Lamb Foot that i received last week. The driftwood scale one is really spectacular, unfortunately photos do not do it justice, hope you all like it as much as i do.

cudgee wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 9:21 pm Good evening everyone, hope the upcoming week is good for all. Just posting a couple more photos of a couple of A Wright Lamb Foot that i received last week. The driftwood scale one is really spectacular, unfortunately photos do not do it justice, hope you all like it as much as i do.
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Those are some beautiful knives cudgee! The driftwood really is awesome looking! Well the other one looks great as well. Both are very nice pick ups!

Have a good week & take care,
Tom

BatJak wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 10:38 pm Yep, Schrade made.
I had one years ago.
It was swinden key, too.

I was looking at some of my hunters i don't know if imperial used the swinden key construction ..but the cover pin placement and lack of lanyard hole is reminiscent of this imperial frontier powder horn , right era too I believe ..just a thought..WB

Came in on Saturday.

Looks like she's in pretty good shape for the shape she's in. How's the snap on those blades?

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 3:26 pm Looks like she's in pretty good shape for the shape she's in. How's the snap on those blades?

Gator snap on both blades. I'm not a big Barlow accumulator but this one rounded out the trio I wanted. The above sheepsfoot, a camco clip, and a Camillus spear.

This one came today, all I can say is wow! It’s an exclusive through Case, no dealers will have this. They said this was the first direct offering by Case of an exclusive knife. I think they picked a winner for their first knife. Buffalo Horn Handles on a two blade Barlow.

I saw that advertised. Looks good. Sweet pick up.