All About Pocket Knives

Paul, I'm not an old knife guy but the WOW factor on those Uticas is over the moon. Thanks for showing them.

Thanks Jerry, my pleasure. Utica made beautiful knives back in the day.

Here's my Utica

wow nice stuff guys!
Saw a really nice Utica at the show but by then was out of cash

This is one of the first Utica's that I bought years ago before I bought all the knives from the Factory collection. It is one of the oldest ones I own. Note the UTK stamping on he back tang which is the earliest mark. I love the Utica etch that is on old Utica's, really classy to me. It's only 3" closed but a real beefy knife.

Uticas seem to range from really, really good to really, really bad. This is the Utica Premium Stockman my daughter gave me for Christmas. You can't appreciate what a well made knife this is until you hold it in your hand.

The only other Utica I owned, I sent off in the POS roundtable. Maybe I should have kept it so I would have one from each end of the spectrum.

galvanic1882 wrote:This is one of the first Utica's that I bought years ago before I bought all the knives from the Factory collection. It is one of the oldest ones I own. Note the UTK stamping on he back tang which is the earliest mark. I love the Utica etch that is on old Utica's, really classy to me. It's only 3" closed but a real beefy knife.

Wow! that is a beauty galvanic1882!! love that etch also but that bone is something else.

I found a couple Uticas at the OKCA show this weekend.
This is a Kutmaster fish knife. It has been used.
The master blade is abut 1/4" short from sharpening.
The secondary blade has the hook remove/fish scaler/caplifter.
This is the first Utica or Kutmaster fish knife I have seen.
Not that they are rare, I have just not seen one before.

I will post more pics later.

Dale, that looks like solid bolsters and celluloid handles. Are you going to re-handle it? Maybe something in a nice red Micarta?

Micarta would look nice Jerry, but I think bone would look better (just my personal preference). I picked up so many knives at the show this weekend that it will be a while before I get around to doing anything with the fish knife.

Here is another Kutmaster that I found at the show.
What interests me is the handles are stainless steel, but the blades & springs are carbon steel.
I wonder what the purpose in that was?

These celluloid handled knives all have the older arched UTICA tang stamping.

I collected these metallic flake celluloid knives for a long time, and I believe that the pattern of horizontal red and gold stripes is unique to Utica...I have only seen these handles on knives marked UTICA or on knives that I believe were mad on contract by UTICA.

My latest Utica Kutmaster. Three and seven eighths closed with bone handles and nickle silver liners.
This one has a T below the tang stamp. Anyone have any info, or want to take a guess about the T?

nice old one you got edgy ! maybe tungsten steel

Thanks Paul.

Some of the nicest Uticas I`ve ever seen here and I been around a day or 2.... Thanks for the photos guys!
Bob

i have one old one to add....... Kutmaster

Paul,

Miller Bro`s wrote:Paul,

Dimitri , Thanks

I have to add this one. It's unused, but has a flaw on the back handle. I am not sure what happened there. It kind of looks like a small piece was scraped off?

Wow, Kathy, that is really nice. Hollow ground and saber ground clip and a hollow ground spey as well.
And a fine shield.
Mighty spiffy.

Joe,

Thanks for the kind words. You are always so nice..

Kathy

Kathy,
Amazing knife!

Here is my contribution to the Utica thread. Frontide tang stamp is : "PAT. PEND" over "UTICA CUTLERY CO." over "UTICA N.Y." on both blades. The backside master blade tang stamp is :"30". Would anyone have any idea when this one might have been made?

Bob

Beauty Kathy!!

I have this stockman I just finished reviewing!

Man, thats a pretty knife FFF!!

Bob