All About Pocket Knives

Good looking knife

knifegnome wrote:A Paxton & Gallagher Omaha Cattleman.

Oh My .....

Thought I posted this here already, an old Union Cutlery cattle knife

This 3 5/8" Cattle knife is marked Robinson Bros & Co Louisville. Any thoughts on who might have made it would be appreciated. It bears a resemblance to knifegnome's beautiful Paxton & Gallagher Omaha Cattleman posted earlier.

That's really a nice knife Jerry. From the bone the the blades.

Yet another old Hammer Brand cattle knife I picked up for $2 at the flea market. The handle coloring on this one is somewhat "Parquet-ish".

I think I have it's clip bladed brother OC. I averaged more then $2 a knife on the lot it came in, so I think you did great.

WB

whitebuffalo58 wrote:I think I have it's clip bladed brother OC. I averaged more then $2 a knife on the lot it came in, so I think you did great.

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Yours looks like the same pattern on the handles, but with a different background color. I think mine was a bargain because the master blade had been chipped. The curve of the cutting edge doesn't look quite right. I have several Hammer cattle knives, but all of mine have a large spear blade. I don't have one with a clip blade, will have to keep an eye out for one.

This is a Russell USA Cattle knife. In the top-down view note that the brass liner adjacent to the punch is a partial liner and the space in the blade well where the liner would have been is occupied by the punch. This design allows the other 2 blades to be straight and the punch is bent.

Jerry, That is a very rare knife. Also nice.

Harold

My brother in law gave me this Kutmaster cattle knife that he got in a box of stuff at an auction. Front bone is good, rear has a big piece broken off. Some one tried to tighten up the joints by hammering the pins, but did not use a slacker. Now you can barely pull the blades open they are so tight. That will all be fixed when it comes apart to rehandle.

I just picked up this Enderes dark jigged bone cattle knife in super nice condition along with the other two tag alongs. I believe Camillus made this one (could be wrong). Levines lists them in the late 1920's. ___Dave

Judging by the shield and "jigging" that is indeed a Camillus.

I just finished rehandling the Kutmaster cattle knife pictured above. Replaced the broken bone handles with elk stag. Now it is an EDC in my pocket.

Nice work on making that Kutmaster really pop, OC!

That should be a fine EDC for a long long time.

Has not been a post here in awhile. I picked up a couple of junior cattle knives for my pile over the weekend.
Camillus 64, 3 3/8" Landers, Frary, & Clark, 3 3/8", number 80633 3/4, with what looks like gold swirl celluloid. For Flesh Only etched on spey blade.

Nice finds OC!!!

Here's an old Shapleigh with a Boker sheepsfoot (I recon that otta be a spey, Pilgrim) that was installed a long time ago. Nice job!

All great lookin' knives...

Would someone please explain to me what makes a cattle knife different from a stockman?
At first I thought it was an equal end 3 bladed knife vs. a serpentine, but I see posted on this thread serpentine pattern knives being called cattle knives. Some have a punch, but others appear to have the same blades combination as a stockman. Each time I think I have it figured out, I get more confused.

That is the generally accepted definition Kaw. Those who continue to post these serpentine stockman deserve a good tongue lashing don't you think?

gsmith7158 wrote:That is the generally accepted definition Kaw. Those who continue to post these serpentine stockman deserve a good tongue lashing don't you think?

Oh Oh, he is talking about me? My bad. I was calling them cattle knives because they had an awl instead of a sheepsfoot on an otherwise stockman frame. And junior because they are 3 3/8" or less. So all cattle knives are equal end?

OC... your photos are not the only ones. The serpentine pattern has been presented throughout this thread.

So I guess this Dwight Devine Ulster would be considered a cattle knife even though it doesn't have a punch blade?

OLDE CUTLER wrote:

gsmith7158 wrote:That is the generally accepted definition Kaw. Those who continue to post these serpentine stockman deserve a good tongue lashing don't you think?

Oh Oh, he is talking about me? My bad. I was calling them cattle knives because they had an awl instead of a sheepsfoot on an otherwise stockman frame. And junior because they are 3 3/8" or less. So all cattle knives are equal end?

OC just a friendly little poke in the ribs. This is another one of those hotly contested ideals that always brings on a lot of conversation but seldom arrives at a definitive answer.

The answer as to a definition of a Cattle knife to a Stockman is about as clear as the sky on a cloudy rainy day .... I think for the most part Cattle knives are equal end frames and Stockmans are serpentine handles with exceptions:

If one reads Levine there are a variety of Cattle knives and indeed there are some called premier serpentine cattle knives... supposedly what differentiates a Cattle Knife from a serpentine stockman is that Cattle knives have Spear point master blades while Stockmans always have a clip blade as the master... Also a Stockman can theoretically have a punch blade (and not all Cattle knives have a punch or awl)... Yet when I look at some of the examples of illustrated knives for each category I see a few Cattle knives with clip blades and one Stockman knife example with a spear blade... From a personal perspective I also think Cattle knives are more robust in hand whereas Stockmans are slimmer...

So is it just opinion?? In some cases probably and many others I think it is pretty clear - how's that for an answer ... IMO - Going back through the thread I can see knives that I would call Stockman knives for sure...

My opinion -

Olde Cutler - I would say you have some sweet Stockman knives ... I think it is cool to see a punch on a Stockman

Ken - That looks like a classic Cattle knife to me and quite nice in MOP and no punch or awl needed ....

And..... I can just see the cowboy with a pearl cattle knife. I'm grin'n