All About Pocket Knives

Great find, Grant. And in such pristine condition. Wow!!

There are so many variations of these knives, a guy could spend his entire life just collecting 72s and their clones.


Same color handles as this Ulster 63.

Jerry I like your Ulster, mind is well used and lost a lot of the bright color . The Craftsman has a couple of faded spots on the handle where it was in a and display case.I think the 72's and clones is a never ending story.Ever time you look you find something different.
Grant

Did you get that one off eBay?

Jerry about a 2 month ago of Ebay. I was going through a program where I list me knives for insurance and found That I didn't take a picture of the knife.That and when I noticed it had pins through the bolster.Should have took notice before.
Grant

Jerry here the Ole Smokey I was telling you about.I received it in the mail today. I had to buy two knives to get it. The seller gave me a small Colonial easy opener and a pen.They must want me back as a customer.
Grant

Nice one Grant!

Thanks Dale .I purchased the knife of the same person as my 72 bone handle .

Shearer wrote:Jerry here the Ole Smokey I was telling you about.I received it in the mail today. I had to buy two knives to get it. The seller gave me a small Colonial easy opener and a pen.They must want me back as a customer.
Grant

That's a great knife I have that one,I love the bone they used.

Excellent Grant. Just bloody excellent. The knives you find on eBay just amazes me. I never did find an Ole Smoky, Tommy gifted mine to me (Thanks Tommy). In fact, if it wasn't for Tommy, I wouldn't have a 72Y bubble shield or Camillus #5 either. (Another huge thank you Tommy)

Thanks knifetime and Jerry.
I showed the knife to my wife and she liked it.
Does this mean I can collect more

Grant -- Unfortunately, no. It just means you get to keep that one.

All that's bad my friend,next thing you know she is going to claim it.LOL I have lost good knives that way.

knifetime wrote:All that's bad my friend,next thing you know she is going to claim it.LOL I have lost good knives that way.

Not only have I lost knives to my wife but my friends have also!
Charlie (upnorth) came to my table at the OKCA show a few years ago with a couple knives for me to repair. One was a new Schatt & Morgan with fancy bolsters, but the red bone had faded on one side. Charlie wanted me to change the handles.
My wife says, "You are not going to take that beautiful bone off that knife!" More of an emphatic statement than a question. Charlie said, "Well, the bone is faded and doesn't look good."
She exclaimed, "That is beautiful, I will buy it! How much?"
Charlie named a low price, generously low for that knife. She turns to me and says, "Pay him."

So I did. I went to Charlie's table later and talked to him. I told him I knew the price he gave it to her was below his cost.
I thanked him and gave him another $20 and I think we still paid less that his cost.
Charlie is a really nice guy, a "gentleman" in the best sense of the word.

The moral is: If your wife likes one of your knives (or your friend's knife) it can cost you a knife (or $$)!

Received a Powr-Kraft ( same as the Camillus80 ) and Craftsman 9494 knife . The Powr-Kraft is in very good order. The Craftsman is a bid sad only has good snap on one blade.

Grant -- You said the Powr-Kraft is the same as a Camillus 80. Does that mean it has the milled liners?


Received this Camillus made Remington today. I think it's from somewhere close to the end of days for Camillus. The main, flat ground on both sides, is a give away. I thought (hoped) the handles might be that black bone Camillus used on a few SFOs and some of the Collectors Editions in the '90s but alas, it's just black Delrin. Factory condition though so that made me happy.

Jerry it has the same as the 80 I have with milled liners.

Yeah, I have one of each in the 72 frame, a Powr-Kraft and a Camillus. I also have a couple in the #69 Deluxe frame with the milled liners. I like that treatment a lot.

Edit: Grant, you know of course, the Deluxe patterns were only made for a few years. There's not a lot of them floating around. I wouldn't say rare, but certainly scarce.

I'm stealing Grant's idea of sorting the 72s & clones, then taking pictures of each individual group. Smart idea Grant. My pictures are not as good as yours but they'll do.

jerryd6818 wrote:Yeah, I have one of each in the 72 frame, a Powr-Kraft and a Camillus. I also have a couple in the #69 Deluxe frame with the milled liners. I like that treatment a lot.

Edit: Grant, you know of course, the Deluxe patterns were only made for a few years. There's not a lot of them floating around. I wouldn't say rare, but certainly scarce.

Oops! I should have said, I have one of each in the 80 frame (same as a 72 except for the milled liners). Sorry for the extra post but it was too late to edit the OP.

..................beautiful, jerry!!!!.............. ............2 or 3 of those look familiar!!.......... ......................

I'd say more like four of 'em Tommy. Now you can come visit 'em anytime you want.

......glad i could help with your collection, jerry!!!........still got 34 of them, counting the 4 split-backspring's, thinking about bidding on another one today!!!!....... ...............

I surely do thank you for helping with my collection. The ones you sent were the ones I was having the most difficult time finding. I had just about given up on the bubble shield and the Ole Smoky.

.........i did see one of the "ole smoky's" on ebay couple of weeks ago, wonder if any of our aapk buddies got it????....................there's a '41-'46 #72 on ebay right now that's in pretty good shape, mprimary blade is about used up, but it looks nice,may not be able to resist!!!!..... ................

Jerry I woke up today( tomorrow to you ) to see this wonderful collection of 72 and clones.You have some nice knives and well set out.I will have to learn how to put writing on my pictures.I will save your picture for future reference.
I wonder how many more variations are out there.
Carrmillus. I pick up a Ole Smokey and Olsen cattle knife sold together.