All About Pocket Knives

Yea,,, the original is neither good or bad, just not my style.
Kinda defeats the handy minimalist design of a B&T knife IMO.
I'll stick it back in the packing tube and keep it for posterity.

Thanks Sasquach

Quick Steel wrote:

I'm a +1 on the large bolded sentence.

I'm not sure which direction your rating scale operates. +1 could mean excellent, top of the line. On the other hand it could mean awful if +10 is the best. I am going to take it as the former unless you advise otherwise.

Garry, it means (at least to me) that I'm in agreement with the quoted or previous post.


I see I failed to post this wonderful gift from Philco in this thread. Can't let that continue. Phil sent this Buck 103 to me and I appreciate it very much. I like it a lot.

MR.RICK inspired me to grab these out of the display an snap some pix

GRECO

AND POPS' OLD CATT HE CARRIED IN VIETNAM........I HAD TO REPLACED SHEATH


ADDED A LIL PARACORD,SKULL BEAD,AND A FERRO ROD I MADE.

Cool knives J-bug.

A little fishing knife I put together a while ago.
Got the blade, handle material, spacers and sheath from Jantz supply.
Red spacer material, birdseye maple, stag cut buffalo horn.
Held together with brass pins.
I have another one I made. All birdseye maple with Mosaic pins.
I'll have to dig it out and post it.
I wanted something with a fat handle.


JW~

That is a hand full. Nice work.

Here is the other fat handled fishing knife I put together.

JW~

Here is my latest: An Erling Vangadel hunter made in Denmark.It was missing the sharpening steel and the point was a little buggered but it is straight now and I just located a Hoffritz sharpening steel that fits perfectly in the sheath.
Hadn't heard of the maker before but it is a great knife and looks well made.
Handle is one piece of wood sort of dovetailed to the front bolster and rear pommel;full tang with brass nut in pommel.Sheath is stitched and also held together with wire.

P.K.Hansen said on BritishBlades in Sept of 2008 --

"What you got there is "THE" scoutknife here in Denmark.
I think 2 out of three (if not more) scouts has that one or the other blade lenght.
I believe it can be had with a 10cm blade and a 12cm blade, with or without a sharpening steel. Aluminum hardware and a palisander handle.
I know Kniv-Per has them in his shop.
Erling Vangedal bought the factory in 1968 - at that time it was called Hans Andersens Dolkfabrik and was located in Lyngby. In 1980 he sold the factory to a familymember because he wanted to devote his time to a new invention of his - the icecubebag, which has been a great succes too"
http://www.britishblades.com/forums/sho ... edal-knife

Hi, Here's some pics of what I have and I'd like to find a few more to round out the collection. I would like to find a Case Bradford and a CASE (block capital letters) in the 0600F pattern with good greenbone handles. I also need a Kinfolks and Kin-Foe in greenbone, same pattern. Or others that look to be a Case contract knife with greenbone. I also would be interested in a Ka-Bar 659-5 (or 6) with stag handles. These are tough knives to find and any help getting some of them run down would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks to all, Eric

Made by Ontario. Blade is 14"; handle is 51/2". Handle is made of oak.

This recent pickup is nothing special but it's sharp as the dickens. It's a very inexpensive carbon steel Morakniv that's made in Sweden.

I have a question regarding this twinfinn set I recently acquired. I know that the "case xx usa" with no pattern no. on the rear of the m5f means that it is a transition model, but the 516-5 is stamped with the "case" stamping, but has the "knights head pommel. My question is, is this a transition model too? Anyhow, this is a very nice set imo. Thanks, Tim

Very nice Tim. I've been fascinated with those Twin Finn sets for years but never could talk myself into forking out the $$$ for one.

I have to say......I do like this BUCK!!

TripleF wrote:I have to say......I do like this BUCK!!

That looks like a good one; rubber grip handle pattern #119? And U.S. made. I have fixed blade knives for anywhere from $100 to $1000, all of which I love, but when I hit the field in the Autumn, and back into the boucherie, it is my plain old Bucks that do the work. My friends and I gut, skin and butcher up to 100 big game animals a year, and Buck is my number one choice for all that work. Knives are for cutting in a controlled manner. I see a lot of talk about batoning and bushcraft and similar bull crap. That is embarassing weird talk. That is why God made hatchets and axes. Duh. Hello. Not meaning you; just a random thought that came up. Good knife.

A custom made tuohipää puukko from Pekka Tuominen in Finland. Hand forged silver steel, the handle is stacked birch. He made the sheath also.

Obviously a very handsome knife. And I particularly like the sheath pattern.

Might as well chunk my new stainless Mora companion in here.

"Stainless" huh. For some reason I had it stuck in my head they are all carbon steel. Hmmm. What are your first impressions, Cutty?

Extremely sharp. Very solid feel. The only use it has seen so far is cutting my steak last night and an apple this morning, did both of those tasks very well. I also dismantled a card board box and it whispered right trough with nothing more than a push.

I hope to make a trip to the coast in a few weeks and give it a try at cutting bait and cleaning fish etc. My reason for the stainless option.

I really like it and it fits very nice and snug in the plastic sheath. For $12.75 it's really hard to beat, so far.

Western W49...............

Sweeeet Western Tim!

Thanks Gino




Tim