All About Pocket Knives

What a THREAD!... 5 pages in 5 days... AWESOME KNIVES!!! I haven't gone thru all of it yet... but since my time is limited I wanted to add my 2 cents worth...
Muskrats re-handled by Herman Williams...


the 787 has jigged bone handles...


the 77OT is saw cut bone (Real bone not delrin)... sorry the detail does not show up well in the photo...


Here's a grouping with their cousin... a Canal Street Cut.


...now to go back to chech as much as I can before having to go to work...

My one and only Herman Williams.
Grant

Well, maybe I should add a few more...

WOW.... WOW..... WOW.....

Dale, that is some beautiful work on ALL those knives!! The eagle filed into that back spring is amazing.

And again.... I say.... WOW!!

Shearer wrote:My one and only Herman Williams.
Grant

Herman is an amazing craftsman.... His choice of scale material is great and his execution is amazing.

a couple shots of my White Bone Collection by Herman the muskrats are the only pattern that's in there more than once.

I'm gonna tell ya' what....

White bone done right is simply beautiful!
AND those are DONE RIGHT!!

Amazing work! All beauties!!

Now, this isn't a Schrade but it is a Sharpfinger pattern that I got to work on with Herman when I visited him this spring. The scales are Factory Stag that were already drilled and had the shield. I've never a big fan of the lanyard hole so we filled it in with 2 different mosaic pins.

WOW.... what a beauty!
The hammer and anvil mosaic pin is COOL and meaningful....

I continue to enjoy and be impressed with this thread. Wow!!!

I like the hammer & anvil mosaic pin, it is great!
I saw them at the OKCA show in April. I should have gotten some then.
That Sharpfinger looks great Doug!

orvet wrote:I like the hammer & anvil mosaic pin, it is great!
I saw them at the OKCA show in April. I should have gotten some then.
That Sharpfinger looks great Doug!

Jantz Supply has them...hard to find though...here's a link https://www.knifemaking.com/searchresul ... 200&page=1

edge213 wrote: This one just about leaves me speechless!
One of the best looking handles I've ever seen.

Thanks . I keep that knife on a stand next to my laptop so anytime I'm at my desk I can look over at it. I'm already planning a second one. I've got the knife picked out (different pattern this time) but haven't settled on the artwork yet.

It seems like I blinked and another couple hundred knives appeared in this thread. Don't know where to start - good show by all! That eagle is pretty slick and I can't decide whether the white bone collection or that SICK (not a Schrade) Sharpfinger is making me hate Doug more right about now . Fine customs right there and well displayed too.

I'll throw up a couple more here. I have a fondness for Washington Jacks and I buy the busted up ones as eagerly as the pretty ones. I like to send them off for mods I would never consider doing on an original knife that was in good shape. Here's a blinged out 2OT and a 2203 that's been reborn as a harness jack.

jxr1197 wrote:Here's a blinged out 2OT and a 2203 that's been reborn as a harness jack.

oh wow Jason... Those 2 are just completely amazing and beautiful knives.

We need a "jaw drop" smilie ... My jaw is on the floor.

Doug..... You have some beautiful knives and you also have a beautiful way of displaying them too.

Good show!!

Meridian_Mike wrote:

jxr1197 wrote:Here's a blinged out 2OT and a 2203 that's been reborn as a harness jack.

oh wow Jason... Those 2 are just completely amazing and beautiful knives.

We need a "jaw drop" smilie ... My jaw is on the floor.

Do any of these suit your fancy? If so, we can ask Bryan if he will add them. No guarantees but it never hurts to ask.

jerryd6818 wrote: Do any of these suit your fancy? If so, we can ask Bryan if he will add them. No guarantees but it never hurts to ask.

LOL... that first one is definitely ME when I saw the 2 OT above...

Maybe if you ask.... real NICE....????.... LOL

Meridian_Mike wrote:

jerryd6818 wrote: Do any of these suit your fancy? If so, we can ask Bryan if he will add them. No guarantees but it never hurts to ask.

LOL... that first one is definitely ME when I saw the 2 OT above...

Maybe if you ask.... real NICE....????.... LOL

I asked. We'll see.

Meridian_Mike wrote:oh wow Jason... Those 2 are just completely amazing and beautiful knives.

We need a "jaw drop" smilie ... My jaw is on the floor.

That 2OT was the first knife I decided to get modded and it wasn't all that long ago. I bought it probably 10 years ago, maybe more - I don't remember exactly. It was a basket case that I nabbed for a few bucks and then it lived in a drawer for a good long time. A few years ago I started getting back into collecting - one of the perks of getting divorced I suppose. Then I remembered the old 2OT in the drawer and sent it to Muskrat Man for 2 new blades and some filework. It came back to me 100 times better than I had imagined. I was worried about the milled liners getting messed up and whether I would like the new look. I definitely wasn't disappointed! The 2203 also happens to be a MM mod. The pen blade was snapped and he had a Schrade punch in hand ready to go.

Here's a before pic on that 2OT

jxr1197 wrote:
That 2OT was the first knife I decided to get modded and it wasn't all that long ago. I bought it probably 10 years ago, maybe more - I don't remember exactly. It was a basket case that I nabbed for a few bucks and then it lived in a drawer for a good long time. A few years ago I started getting back into collecting - one of the perks of getting divorced I suppose. Then I remembered the old 2OT in the drawer and sent it to Muskrat Man for 2 new blades and some filework. It came back to me 100 times better than I had imagined. I was worried about the milled liners getting messed up and whether I would like the new look. I definitely wasn't disappointed! The 2203 also happens to be a MM mod. The pen blade was snapped and he had a Schrade punch in hand ready to go.

Here's a before pic on that 2OT
2OTbefore.jpg

You are killing me Jason....
I have been looking for a 2OT or one of its Schrade kin for a while now. I want a basket case so I can do a restoration on it.

The 2 you show above are KILLERS!!
Real works of art.

I love 2OT rescues!
Jason, that Washington Harness Jack is off the rails!

Several years ago Keith (Ozzie & Marie) sent me a 2OT and said, “I just thought you should have this.” He knew I didn’t own a 2OT. I put it up about my workbench and there it sat for several years until two or three years ago I started looking at it and trying to figure out what I could make of it.
People who are knife mechanics tend to be collectors of broken knives but they are also collectors of knife parts. So when I see some blades on eBay that are purportedly from Schrade Cut Co. and I could knives a couple of blades that I knew were for certain Schrade Cut Co. I bought them. They were rusted and pitted so I clean them off and put them in a plastic bottle and poured in some Eezox. I actually had the blades longer than I had the 2OT but it wasn’t until I started looking at the blades one day and realized that one of them would fit the 2OT perfectly. It was on stamped, but it would fit as if it was made for it.

The rest is knife restoration history. Here are some before pictures and some after pictures. This is still one of my EDC knives.
With a little TLC and a set of Culpepper’s Goldenroot RJB bone handles, it started to look respectable again.

What a great turn around. Love those old bones.

That's a dandy 2OT, Dale!

I almost forgot I had this Herman Williams 804.

orvet wrote:I love 2OT rescues!

^^YES - THAT! Because #allknivesmatter

The bone on that 2OT rehab was a great choice. I saw another one of your 2OT customs - actually just a picture of it, when I was BS'ing about knives with another collector. You'll remember this one, it was kind of unique. It was a modded TL29 where you deleted the screwdriver and then carved a rat tail, two threads and a pinch into the front bolsters and made a Washington Jack out of the dang thing! Now THAT"S a knife you should include in this thread

Here's a different pattern that I like a lot - the Ulster 50. When I gave up on the dream of finding a 50OT I decided the next best thing was to clone one (or two.) I sent a couple of ratty 50s to Eric Albers and got back two really cool knives. The delrin handle was swapped off a 58OT and really looks the part. The redbone with the coined shield is just straight eye candy and in the second pic you can see just how easily it blends in with that special group of redbones from the 80s.