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Edgewise wrote:Going through this thread is enough to convert anyone to the #72 and it's not even a Case.
Not to seem disloyal but is there another thread devoted to a single pattern to match this one? ( )

I’d say you’re right. I don’t know if any single pattern that evokes this kind of response from so many.

I’m surprised that a pattern so popular hasn’t been picked up by another maker. I’d think this would be annatural for someone like GEC.

Colonel26 wrote:

Edgewise wrote:Going through this thread is enough to convert anyone to the #72 and it's not even a Case.
Not to seem disloyal but is there another thread devoted to a single pattern to match this one? ( )

I’d say you’re right. I don’t know if any single pattern that evokes this kind of response from so many.

I’m surprised that a pattern so popular hasn’t been picked up by another maker. I’d think this would be annatural for someone like GEC.

Great Eastern came close with the 33 Conductor but you know how the saying goes, close only counts in hand grenades and horse shoes (and washers if you're from the South )

...haven't heard that old saying in a while, jerry!!!............... ....................

jerryd6818 wrote:

Colonel26 wrote:

Edgewise wrote:Going through this thread is enough to convert anyone to the #72 and it's not even a Case.
Not to seem disloyal but is there another thread devoted to a single pattern to match this one? ( )

I’d say you’re right. I don’t know if any single pattern that evokes this kind of response from so many.

I’m surprised that a pattern so popular hasn’t been picked up by another maker. I’d think this would be annatural for someone like GEC.

Great Eastern came close with the 33 Conductor but you know how the saying goes, close only counts in hand grenades and horse shoes (and washers if you're from the South )

You’re right, close. They need to stretch it out a bit and add a blade.

jerryd6818 wrote:David, that's a good start you have going there. The Craftsman looks like it has bone handles.

Thank you Jerry and yes it has bone covers.

Colonel26 wrote:Great pile of 72 clones there David.

Thank you Colonel.

I had been watching for a 72 with bone handles and found them to be few and far between. Saw this little special edition and decided that would be a good choice. They have been posted here before but not this one. Thanks for looking.

.....why they didn't do that one in rogers bone i'll never know???................ ..................

doglegg wrote:I had been watching for a 72 with bone handles and found them to be few and far between. Saw this little special edition and decided that would be a good choice. They have been posted here before but not this one. Thanks for looking.DSCN5377.JPGDSCN5378.JPG

Floyd, those were made in the early '90s. I don't know if that was a factory special for Sears but I do know it was in a 1991 Sears Christmas Catalog (or advertisement?). see below Not sure of the timing but there were only three variations made with those bone handles. That one, one for SMKW with a main blade etch "Ole Smoky" and one that was just a plain Jane.

carrmillus wrote:.....why they didn't do that one in rogers bone i'll never know???................ ..................

Tommy, Rogers Bone was no longer available in the '90s when those knives were made. So now you know. As far as I am aware of, those three knives were the only bone handle knives Camillus made after they stopped using bone for handles somewhere in the late '50s or very early '60s.

.....wonder what ever happened to the tooling they used to produce ROGERS BONE????............... ..............

carrmillus wrote:.....wonder what ever happened to the tooling they used to produce ROGERS BONE????............... ..............

From what I’ve read, it still exists and is owned by the family.

This is my most treasured 72. It's my only first-gen and my only bone 72. Also, it's got Rogers bone.

Thanks Jerry for the information. I will keep my eye out for the other ones.
Tony that is awesome. What a great old knife. And a great photo as well.

Oh Tony. Yum, Yum.

Tsar Bomba wrote:This is my most treasured 72. It's my only first-gen and my only bone 72. Also, it's got Rogers bone.

...I've got this one's twin brother and 2 others with darker bone!!,,they are among my favorites!!.... ..........

The Camillus first gen 72 bone handles double saber grind on the master 1946-50 shortline is in my opinion one of the most undervalued classic knives that one can possess. If you see one you had better get it!

doglegg wrote:I had been watching for a 72 with bone handles and found them to be few and far between. Saw this little special edition and decided that would be a good choice. They have been posted here before but not this one. Thanks for looking.DSCN5377.JPGDSCN5378.JPG

Good score doglegg!

Tony and Greg those two are real beauties!

DM11 wrote:Tony and Greg those two are real beauties!

Thanks David!

gsmith7158 wrote:The Camillus first gen 72 bone handles double saber grind on the master 1946-50 shortline is in my opinion one of the most undervalued classic knives that one can possess. If you see one you had better get it!

Very nice Greg!!

DM11 wrote:

doglegg wrote:I had been watching for a 72 with bone handles and found them to be few and far between. Saw this little special edition and decided that would be a good choice. They have been posted here before but not this one. Thanks for looking.DSCN5377.JPGDSCN5378.JPG

Good score doglegg!

Thanks David.

gsmith7158 wrote:The Camillus first gen 72 bone handles double saber grind on the master 1946-50 shortline is in my opinion one of the most undervalued classic knives that one can possess. If you see one you had better get it!

Well Greg I'd like to get one but it seems they all end up in GA

KnifeSlinger#81 wrote:

gsmith7158 wrote:The Camillus first gen 72 bone handles double saber grind on the master 1946-50 shortline is in my opinion one of the most undervalued classic knives that one can possess. If you see one you had better get it!

Well Greg I'd like to get one but it seems they all end up in GA

I just picked this one up...I have never studied these, but I assume that this one is a short line?

Nice tan Rogers bone, blades have seen very little use.

....that one is definitely a winner!!!!..... ...............