All About Pocket Knives

I should have said 1 below freezing . I got my conversions wrong because they read the weather here in Celsius.In Celsius 0 is freezing.

Yeah, that whole Fahrenheit - Celsius thing is a pain in the derriere when it comes time to convert. I don't even try. I look it up.

I just received this 72 clone in the mail.It has Craftsman USA on the tang.It has bone handles even though it looks like delrin.I would say it was made by Imperial as you can see the pins in the bolsters.It is also missing the shield.

Wow!!! A bone handle Craftsman clone!!! You lucky duck. Definitely not Camillus as evidenced by the plain pull on the main blade, long pull on the small clip secondary instead of a nail nick and the handle pins are closer to the bolsters than on a Camillus. Could be Imperial or Schrade or Ulster.

Jerry I was to busy checking to see if the handles where bone. I did not notice the long pull on the small clip secondary.I checked all my other Imperial,Ulster and Schrade knives and non have a long pull on the clip secondary.I will have to see if I can find some Craftsman catalogs.
Grant

Who wants to buy this one. Starting bid $325.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BOY-SCOUT-OFFIC ... 1c35e335d7

I'd like to,but the Misses says we ain't have the brass

.............hhhmmmmm, mine's worth more than I thought!!!.................. ....................

That one came in with my saved searches this morning. It looks like he just sells Boy Scout stuff. The knife is listed in eBay's Scout section and not in knives. I'm guessing he's not well educated on knives (or at all). The last one like that (new in tube) that sold, went for $51 & change.

Hello Houston, we have a problem. That price is in the stratosphere.

This morning I went back and read some of the old posts in this thread and discovered, I'm an idiot. Hang with me folks. I'm learning.

Slowly he turned. Step by step...

Jerry if we all look back in the past we where all idiots at sometime. I enjoy you posts and have learned a lot from them.
Grant

Shearer wrote:Jerry if we all look back in the past we where all idiots at sometime. I enjoy you posts and have learned a lot from them.
Grant

......me, too, jerry!!!!..... ..........

Thanks fellers but I think what you learned from my posts is that I'm an idiot.

Shearer wrote: I enjoy you posts and have learned a lot from them.
Grant

carrmillus wrote:..me, too, jerry!!!!

Not trolling for compliments but I appreciate the sentiments. Thank you Grant & Tommy.

Got this one in the mail this week. Just can't stand to pass up an inexpensive 72. The main has been tipped and grinder/sander abused on the pile side but she's solid and all blades snap like a junk yard dog (always a plus with any knife).

Here is a white handle 72 (1047 scout ) Jerry 6818 picked up for me.
I posted this picture using a IPad.I am slowly learn to use the IPad .You need small pointy fingers and a steady hand.It' better than a mobile phone.

Grant, that's one of those that no 72 collection is complete without. It looked like it's in pretty decent condition when it came through Rockford.

Jerry.
I am very happy with the knife .It did not take much to clean it.I put it through the sonic cleaner .It cleaned the crack in the handle and then I cleaned the rust and dirt of all the blades.
You know what a stubby is now (that's if you didn't know before ).We will see If someone asks what we a talking about.
Grant

Good. Glad you like it. Now I can shread the postal receipt.

Y'all sure do talk funny down there. Stubby. At first I thought that was a personal thing.

Shearer wrote:Jerry.
I am very happy with the knife .It did not take much to clean it.I put it through the sonic cleaner .It cleaned the crack in the handle and then I cleaned the rust and dirt of all the blades.
You know what a stubby is now (that's if you didn't know before ).We will see If someone asks what we a talking about.
Grant

....................stubby??????.............. ................................

I just learned this Tommy. It's Australian for a short glass bottle used for beer. I guess it was a term used in several countries during the early 20th century, including the US. Today the word stubbie is only in common use in Australia.

......I like it!!!!.......looks like it would be harder to spill!!!!......... ............

jerryd6818 wrote:I just learned this Tommy. It's Australian for a short glass bottle used for beer. I guess it was a term used in several countries during the early 20th century,.........

Some of my best times as a teenager were spent drinking Heidelberg 'Stubbies' by the case with my buddies. We called them stubbies in the mid-80's.....over here on the West Coast.

IM

I like the bottles. I wish they still sold 'em here in the States. I don't know. Maybe they still do in some places, especially the places that carry Canadian beer.

carrmillus wrote:......I like it!!!!.......looks like it would be harder to spill!!!!......... ............

Depends on how many you've drank

In Oregon one of the most common beer bottles was the Olympia stubby (shown in Jerry’s post).
There was a deposit on bottles then too; 1 cent on the beer bottles, 2 cents on pop bottles and 5 cents on quart pop bottles. We had about ¾ mile of road bordering our ranch & I used to pick up bottles for extra cash. A box of .22 shells was less than a $0.25. $0.25 would get you the best long rifle hollow points, the good stuff!

There was a “thing” with the labels on the Olympia stubbies: Has anyone here ever heard of a 4-dot?

There is a small brewery here in Oregon that uses a version of the stubby today.
Red Stripe comes in a stubby, at least here in Oregon.

In the 1960s & 1970s Mug Root Beer was bottled in stubbies on the West Coast.