All About Pocket Knives

tongueriver wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 6:27 pm I recently received this Bob Lay (a British Columbia maker) knife. I am very pleased with it.

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Very nice!

Agree with everyone else TongueRiver! That is a classy looking Skinner! The handle looks like it would fit great with bigger hands.

Corn Creek Cutlery wrote: ↑Tue Mar 18, 2025 5:07 pm Agree with everyone else TongueRiver! That is a classy looking Skinner! The handle looks like it would fit great with bigger hands.

Thank you! The knife is not large-- less than 8 inches overall and the handle is a perfect fit in my smallish hands.

Great Eastern has made a few fixed blades. Not my hand. Not my blood blister. In November of 1971 I hit my thumb with a hammer three times in one afternoon, framing up a house. I vowed that I would never do it again, and I have not.

Another skinner type. Henry Sears and Sons 1865 is the stamp. An early 20th century knife with what I think is a bakelite handle. Many of these 'thistle' handle knives were carved/checkered wood, but this one is not.

A small Jerry Hendrix with mother of pearl. Not my hand.

I just heard from Mark and Mike; they are still hard at it. This video was shot in 2022. The knives I own from this shop will be the last to leave my possession, out of a very many beautiful knives both folding and fixed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZygO85 ... rtheBigSky

A couple more of the woodcraft type skinners, these from Germany.

I believe Linder (Germany) is no longer in business.

I believe Linder went out of business in 2022. I purchased this one in 2018.

Nice; are those sometimes called scout knives?

tongueriver wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 1:51 pm Nice; are those sometimes called scout knives?

Yes. I believe it was originally called a youth knife. Then Hitler came along, slapped a swastika on it and called it a Hitler Youth knife. In post war times it became a youth knife again and with the Fleur-de-Lis emblem (an international emblem of Boy Scouting) on the handle it has been called the German Boy Scout knife. The pattern has been manufactured by Eickhorn, J A Henckels, Linder and others over the years. Linder called this one the Pathfinder. Even though, to the best of my knowledge, the pattern was not intended for the Nazis and was created before their rise to power they adopted and modified it to their liking and it still carries that stigma with some folks. I've gotten some static from people when I post it occasionally. Go figure...

Good information!

Awesome Linders fellas! Many

Here's a couple cheapies I picked up recently. First one is a small stacked leather handled Rough Ryder.
Really not a bad little knife, though the handle could used a little buffing.
Next is a counterfeit Loveless drop point hunter.

ken98k wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 2:34 am Here's a couple cheapies I picked up recently. First one is a small stacked leather handled Rough Ryder.
Really not a bad little knife, though the handle could used a little buffing.

Rough Ryder small hunter.jpg

Next is a counterfeit Loveless drop point hunter.

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RWL 1.jpg

A couple of very knice looking knives Ken. The RR especially.

doglegg wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 1:37 pm

ken98k wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 2:34 am Here's a couple cheapies I picked up recently. First one is a small stacked leather handled Rough Ryder.
Really not a bad little knife, though the handle could used a little buffing.

Rough Ryder small hunter.jpg

Next is a counterfeit Loveless drop point hunter.

Cheap copy.jpg
RWL 1.jpg

A couple of very knice looking knives Ken. The RR especially.

Ithink it was well worth the $11.99 that I paid for it!

Picked this one up from one of our AAPK vendors a few days ago. Schrade was always one of my favorite knife brands and I still find it hard to believe that only a few years ago we could buy a USA made knife of this quality for about 30 bucks. Now a quality USA made knife is off the price chart. I put this 153UH on the stone when it arrived and in a matter of minutes it was sharp enough to shave with. The times they are a changin'.

That's a good one!

Sasquach wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 2:44 pm Picked.....

WOW!!!

My first hunting knife!
In 1963, Dad was running the local swimming pool. The Assistant Mgr., James Raabe, said he would give me the knife if I could swim 3 lengths of the 25 m. pool. I accomplished the feat, with some difficulty. However, 52 years later I still have the knife (a little “beat up from my boyhood days)! I always liked the faux stag handle.
It is only marked “Solingen, Germany”. The sheath is marked “Made in Germany “.
I’m curious about the German maker. Maybe an import?

Sasquach wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 2:44 pm Picked this one up from one of our AAPK vendors a few days ago. Schrade was always one of my favorite knife brands and I still find it hard to believe that only a few years ago we could buy a USA made knife of this quality for about 30 bucks. Now a quality USA made knife is off the price chart. I put this 153UH on the stone when it arrived and in a matter of minutes it was sharp enough to shave with. The times they are a changin'.

Sasquach wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 2:44 pm Picked this one up from one of our AAPK vendors a few days ago. Schrade was always one of my favorite knife brands and I still find it hard to believe that only a few years ago we could buy a USA made knife of this quality for about 30 bucks. Now a quality USA made knife is off the price chart. I put this 153UH on the stone when it arrived and in a matter of minutes it was sharp enough to shave with. The times they are a changin'.

millern wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 2:16 am My first hunting knife!
In 1963, Dad was running the local swimming pool. The Assistant Mgr., James Raabe, said he would give me the knife if I could swim 3 lengths of the 25 m. pool. I accomplished the feat, with some difficulty. However, 52 years later I still have the knife (a little “beat up from my boyhood days)! I always liked the faux stag handle.
It is only marked “Solingen, Germany”. The sheath is marked “Made in Germany “.
I’m curious about the German maker. Maybe an import?

Well you still have the knife and glad you don't have to swim again to keep it. Lots of good memories in your knife.

millern wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 2:16 am My first hunting knife!
In 1963, Dad was running the local swimming pool. The Assistant Mgr., James Raabe, said he would give me the knife if I could swim 3 lengths of the 25 m. pool. I accomplished the feat, with some difficulty. However, 52 years later I still have the knife (a little “beat up from my boyhood days)! I always liked the faux stag handle.
It is only marked “Solingen, Germany”. The sheath is marked “Made in Germany “.
I’m curious about the German maker. Maybe an import?

Here's mine, a small nicker from Puma. There's a little filework, the handle cap is missing. But it still cuts great!