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Ken, do you know were this one was manufactured?

Quick Steel wrote:Ken, do you know were this one was manufactured?

Nope!

Here's a couple

Wow! What a lineup! Beautiful!

Those old bone handled Case knives are sweet!

Using these 2 today

Looks GOOD Paul!! What wood is on the top knives handle?? WOW!! That's purty!!!
John

steve99f wrote:Those old bone handled Case knives are sweet!

They sure are; I don't own a single CASE fixed blade; the chrome plating kinda throws me. Just me, I know. I see some of the old ones but balk at the price when they are in extra pretty condition. I am partial to the Ruanas too; I might have a couple of them. You have a great collection, Mr. Kennedy; Some great images you posted earlier, also (Randalls & Ruanas & CASES, oh my!).

Case blades are not chrome plated.. Just highly polished..
John

jmh58 wrote:Case blades are not chrome plated.. Just highly polished..
John

Page 330 of Jim Sargent's Knives & Razors, 7th Edition:

Thanks for that.. Learn something every day..
John

Here's one of those chrome plated blades...

They don't get any more rugged than this Cold Steel. No handle slabs to break, only olive paracord on a high carbon blade. I think I remember buying this at a gunshow back in the early 1990s for less than $20, did not come with a sheath. If I remember correctly, Cold Steel marketed this as a throwing knife, but with a nylon sheath I picked up at our local military store, it makes a fine all around knife. This one at the time was USA made, later versions were imported.

This one won't be everyone's cup of tea but I like it.

Don't remember if I posted this before but here it is in all it's non-shiny beauty: Ontario Spec Plus.

knife7knut wrote:Don't remember if I posted this before but here it is in all it's non-shiny beauty: Ontario Spec Plus.

My Marine son broke the kabar I got him, so I gave him one of those. So far he hasn't broken it.

ken98k wrote: My Marine son broke the kabar I got him,

The true test of a knife's quality, give it to a Jarhead.
Sending a big ole Semper Fi his way.

For quite some time, I've been interested in a Ka-Bar Warthog fixed blade. Willie (Owd Wullie) has one and I contacted him, inquiring about it. This is what he sent back:

"Hey Jerry,
I still have it, but you don't want it. It's a piece of crap. Blade chipped out chopping the rib cage of a white tail. Ka-Bar said if I wanted to return it at my expense, they would look at it. May re-profile it at some point but I'm not impressed by the knife or the company any more."

jerryd6818 wrote:This one won't be everyone's cup of tea but I like it.

Oooooooh boy, that us wicked cool Jerry!! So beastly! LOVE IT!!!

Been using this pawn shop find for the past couple weeks....

zed6309 wrote:Using these 2 today 20190107_125543-01.jpeg

Love those Paul!! Love 'em!! Great pic too!

TripleF wrote:

jerryd6818 wrote:This one won't be everyone's cup of tea but I like it.

Oooooooh boy, that us wicked cool Jerry!! So beastly! LOVE IT!!!

The sheath is just killer. It has a military look to it.
After seeing what happened to Willie's Warthog, I would hesitate to use it. What am I saying? Warthog or no Warthog, I'll never use it anyway.

TripleF wrote:Been using this pawn shop find for the past couple weeks....

I like the looks of that Gerber.

ken98k wrote:

TripleF wrote:Been using this pawn shop find for the past couple weeks....

I like the looks of that Gerber.

And it works mighty fine too Ken!!

Picked up this shell handled Imperial. Cheapy knife but I bought one just like it back about 1972.
It was my first fixed blade, and I remember buying it with paper route money at Fox Hardware in Penacook NH. They were one of those old creaky floor stores and I doubt they're still around. No idea what ever happened to my original.

It might be an old cheapy Ken.....but it's cool old cheapy! I had one too, they did the job.

Love those ol' creaky floor hardware stores...we still have one left in the neighborhood.

Sasquach wrote:It might be an old cheapy Ken.....but it's cool old cheapy! I had one too, they did the job.

Love those ol' creaky floor hardware stores...we still have one left in the neighborhood.

Well surprise, it is still there although the buildings that were on either side are gone. https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb ... CnoECAYQBg#