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Good job Joe! If you collect old vintage folders this is a skill (adjusting the kick) that you become fairly familiar with real quick or you just learn to live with it I can’t so it I fix it! Nice folder by the way

Nice knife Joe, thanks for sharing, another oldie but goodie!!! Thanks for sharing the photo of how you corrected the blade too.

For some reason, I think the manufacturer of the bone did refer to it as "Indian Trail".

I might have read that written by Bernie Levine, but not necessarily in his books.

Charlie Noyes

Thank you, Lloyd and Bill. Appreciate your comments.

Great old Catt pen, Joe, ebony with clear tang stamps!
Dan

Thanks a lot, Dan.

1fartsmella wrote:Thanks guys. Lee in the old catalogs Cattaraugus called these handles Stag. I think Indian Trail is a modern collectors term and is referring to the Cattaraugus Indian when they say "Indian trail bone". that's just my interpretation.

Charlie is right. According to Levine, with regard to bone knife handles the term "Indian Trail" originated from the supplier of Rogers bone. Here's a link to the 1987 article written by Bernard Levine http://www.knife-expert.com/bonehand.txt

Ken

Edit: BTW I don't understand why AAPK doesn't have a "brand-specific" sub-forum for Cattaraugus Cutlery Company. We've got one for many IMHO much less substantive companies.

Mumbleypeg wrote:Charlie is right. According to Levine, with regard to bone knife handles the term "Indian Trail" originated from the supplier of Rogers bone. Here's a link to the 1987 article written by Bernard Levine http://www.knife expert.com/bonehand.txt

Ken

Edit: BTW I don't understand why AAPK doesn't have a "brand-specific" sub-forum for Cattaraugus Cutlery Company. We've got one for many IMHO much less substantive companies.

Thank you Charlie and Ken.
Good informational reading there, Ken, thank you.

Good point on the Cattaraugus sub forum, Ken. It would be great to see a more dedicated forum for a great cutlery company.
We don't even have New York Knife company listed there. Or Walden Knife. Or Tidioute. Or Northfield, Challenge, Miller Bros.,
Landers Frary & Clark, Humiston & Beckley, Waterville, Empire, Gardner, American Shear and Knife. ........... Any way, we can't put every manufacturer in there of course but these companies and more should be given some consideration.
Thanks for looking.

I am all for a sub forum for Cattaragus, NYKC, Challenge, Miller Brothers and Empire. Thanks for bringing his up Ken and Joe!!

FRJ wrote:Any way, we can't put every manufacturer in there of course but these companies and more should be given some consideration.

Exactly, how many is enough? Most of the sub-forums are hardly used a few topics and even fewer regular posters. Nothing wrong with keeping it right here in knife lore

Miller Bro's wrote:

FRJ wrote:Any way, we can't put every manufacturer in there of course but these companies and more should be given some consideration.

Exactly, how many is enough? Most of the sub-forums are hardly used a few topics and even fewer regular posters. Nothing wrong with keeping it right here in knife lore

I agree. Many of these manufacturers would generate little traffic and would go unnoticed.

Thank you, Dimitri and Wayne.
Well, it is a Brand Specific Knife Forum for searching specific manufactures used by members of this forum and by many non members as well. Having in place an organized group of major manufacturers for research seems like good management to me.
I admit my suggestions for contenders was a little long but I think Cattaraugus Cuttlery and New York Knife might be considered in there. Obviously they can be sought for research and comments where they are. That has worked this far.
I don't know what it takes to move threads around to different forums.
Thank you.

Hard to find Catt sheepsfoot jack, nicely pocket worn with good blades, used but not abused.

Another beautiful knife, John. That bone!
Thanks for putting it in this thread.
Interesting how someone found more use out of the pen than the sheepsfoot.
I see that from time to time in the jacks in my own knives.

FRJ wrote: ↑Fri Jan 01, 2021 4:55 pm Another beautiful knife, John. That bone!
Thanks for putting it in this thread.
Interesting how someone found more use out of the pen than the sheepsfoot.
I see that from time to time in the jacks in my own knives.

Thanks Joe, I also have several vintage jacks that the pen shows a lot more wear than the main. My edc is a GEC 92 Eureka jack and I use the pen 85% of the time.

JohnR wrote: ↑Fri Jan 01, 2021 4:23 pm Hard to find Catt sheepsfoot jack, nicely pocket worn with good blades, used but not abused.

John you sure have some beautiful knives.

FRJ wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 6:05 pm Edit: BTW I don't understand why AAPK doesn't have a "brand-specific" sub-forum for Cattaraugus Cutlery Company. We've got one for many IMHO much less substantive companies.

Thank you Charlie and Ken.
Good informational reading there, Ken, thank you.

Good point on the Cattaraugus sub forum, Ken. It would be great to see a more dedicated forum for a great cutlery company. [/quote]

This is crazy!
I didn't need to start this thread, "Cattaraugus Cutlery Co." in Knife Lore.
Miller Bros. (Dimitri) had already started "Cattaraugus Cutlery Co., Little Valley N.Y. 1886-1963" in
Cattaraugus Cutlery Collectors forum in July of 2010. I guess I didn't research.
Sorry about the long winded confusion.

edge213 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 01, 2021 5:18 pm

JohnR wrote: ↑Fri Jan 01, 2021 4:23 pm Hard to find Catt sheepsfoot jack, nicely pocket worn with good blades, used but not abused.

John you sure have some beautiful knives.

David, thank you. appreciate the comment.

John

Great knife!