All About Pocket Knives

I've collected a few of these over the years.Just bought one the other day at an antique shop with an extra sheath for $3(hard to pass up at that price!).Got it home and started doing a little rust removal using my EDC,some 320 wet-or-dry sandpaper,and some Mother's Mag wheel Polish.Found out it was a Kutmaster with black jigged plastic scales.Didn't look as though it had ever had a stone put to it.Cleaned up pretty decently.
Next is a German one marked with what looks like a smiley face with a butch haircut and the letters "G and B" in place where his ears should be;his teeth are clenched around a dagger.Two piece stag scales fitted so the spine doesn't show and one is carved with what looks to be an elk or a caribou letting out a bellow.
Next is a Case with beautiful stag scales in it's original sheath.
Next is one marked,"V-1 Ruko Solingen" with stacked leather washers.No sheath.I got it from my cousin who in turn got it from his father-in-law.He was a WWII vet but I doubt he bought it in Germany.Looks 50's.
Next one is unmarked and looks a bit like a Western.Bought at a flea market for less than a dollar.
Next up is another unmarked(except for Solingen Germany)knife with a brass sub-hilt that sports a stud welded to the bottom,a strangely profiled blade and handle held on with an acorn nut.Handle looks like oak.
Next is marked,"Testa Solingen Germany" and is one of the smallest I've ever seen.Sheath isn't original.
Next is one marked,"Mohawk Brand Japan" with black jigged plastic scales and original sheath.
Next is a knicker knife with a sterling silver ferrule and one piece pearl handle.Thought at first it was a re-ground table knife but it isn't.
Last one is probably the smallest knicker knife I've ever seen.Beautiful crown stag handle and came with two sheaths;a neck sheath and the original.
Anyway that is my small collection of small knives.Hope you enjoy them.

Looks like a bunch of good ones.

Real nice assortment there K7K. I'm not familiar enough with all the older fixed blade brands to jump in amongst them. Most of them I see at the fleamart are pretty well used or abused.
I do have a few newer 'smaller' fixed blades I like.
looks like a good place to post them if I may.
First one Schrade USA 152OTO
Rest are BRK&T 'smaller' varieties.
Escort Boot-Bocote
Huntsman-Amboynia Burl
Journeyman-RLM
Escort Boot-Fiddleback Maple
Woodland Spcl-Mesquite Burl

Love those Barkies Wose

Thanks BH, I have a few more but don't think they'd fit in the smaller fixed blade range.
Kinda strange there is no medium or large fixed blade threads, huh?

BTW saw your Purtimous Case fixed blades thread. I didn't even know you had ANY fixed blades til seeing those.
That stretching saran wrap over blades sure is a neat trick, mind if I try it??

Makes em shine

Got this one in today, from the 1999 NAHC Hunting Heritage
Collection 8 knife Set.
Grohmann Knives in Pictou Nova Scotia agreed to make these for the NAHC to their specifications after the originally planned knifemaker went belly up.
Grohmann now has it as a regular production item called the R105S Deepwoods hunter.
Rosewood handle, brass pommel & guard, high carbon SS hollow ground 3.5" blade, 7.5" OAL
I likee

Not many to show.

I do have 2 Ka Bar small fixed.

Ka-Bar Fixed Bird & Trout 1448 7 1/4 "

Ka-Bar Fixed Bird & Trout 1228 AUS6 Cleveland, Ohio Japan 7"

Thought I'd keep this thread going with some even smaller knives.I should say that some of these are pins;some are key chains;some are actual working knives(although I can't imagine what for)and a couple are neck knives.
First up is a set of 4 knives that appear to be made by one person,Don't know who the maker was;they were purchased on eBay.BTW the background in most of these pictures is my standard 1" squares.
Second is a bowie knife pin compared to a one cent piece.
Third up is a dagger that my son bought to wear as an ear ring.He tired of it and gave it to me.
Fourth is a mini knife that I made a set of ivory handles for from some old piano key tops I got a long time ago.I also got the black(ebony)keys which are future knife scales.
Fifth is a small knife marked,"Kakuri" and was apparently part of a tool set that is only available in Japan.Another eBay treasure.
Sixth is a key chain bowie with sheath.
Seventh is another key chain knife in the shape of a Khindjal with a tiny figured brass sheath.
Eighth is a miniature knicker knife with a compass in the sheath made in Germany.
Ninth is a Miniature Ken Robinson bowie with engine-turning on the blade.Also has a sheath.
Last for this post is a miniature Mexican dagger listed on eBay as a letter opener.
Have a few more to post so stay tuned.

Before I continue I must make a correction:Knife #9 was made by Ken RICHARDSON,not Ken Robinson.
First up is a mini fighter/bolo tie by Jim Turecek of Derby CT;one of the nicest custom knives I own.It has a spring loaded lock button to attach it to the sheath(which is made from two pieces of stag scaled down to fit the knife).The blade is satin finished and has scaled down stag handles(He said it took him a long time just to find the stag with a small enough burl)and stag tips on the tie.I don't believe he makes these anymore as they take much longer to make than a full sized knife.
Second is a miniature Finnish puuko with stacked wooden washers and red plastic for the handle;a work of art.
Third is a miniature inexpensive German knife.
Fourth is a mini hunter in kind of an unusual shape;most knives of this type are Bowie style.Has a cheap plastic sheath.
Fifth is a miniature Argentine punal with silver handle and sheath.I have several of these(some in the original boxes)and I believe they were intended to be letter openers although they are a fully functional and very sharp knife.
Sixth is your typical mini souvenir knife with a beaded sheath.
Lastly is a tie bar in the shape of a hunter that adjusts in width and simulates piercing the tie.
Those are all the pics I could dig up tonight;I'll see if I can find more to post.Hope you enjoy them.

knife7knut perhaps you could get Case to make some Case sheilds and pin with a chain tie tack.

Come to think about I mite just buy one if I see it. I am sure many others would buy them too.

Don't any one tell those China people of my idea...

Too late Mr. Just, them Chinermen probly read your post
before the megabits were dry.

Sure enjoyed your parade of diverse design miniatures K7K.

Here's my smallest fixed blade currently, Brusletto Balder.
Sanded the black coating off the unfinished sandvik blade
and softened the edges on the birch handle before a few
coats of linseed oil.
Just wanted to see what I could piddle with on a $20
scandinavian mini. Some people are easily amused.



Size comparison to Case 6254:


I prefer the size and better grasp on the Helle #5 Speider tho.

Here is a small fixed blade that Jeremy (4ever3)made for me
OAL is just over 6 3/4" she is a dandy

This little Blackjack drop point from 97 was actually put out as a hunting knife. I have my doubts regarding it's usefulness with Turkeys.
moss

woseyjales wrote:Got this one in today, from the 1999 NAHC Hunting Heritage
Collection 8 knife Set.
Grohmann Knives in Pictou Nova Scotia agreed to make these for the NAHC to their specifications after the originally planned knifemaker went belly up.
Grohmann now has it as a regular production item called the R105S Deepwoods hunter.
Rosewood handle, brass pommel & guard, high carbon SS hollow ground 3.5" blade, 7.5" OAL
I likee

Grohmann Knives Limited is a small family-owned business in Nova Scotia. Their top quality knives are actually a perfect art that's what a knives' collector really loved. I really wanted to see knives made by them and think if I can make a little collection of these.

I really like those small knives for hunting and fishing; the older I get-am almost 60 now- the smaller the knifes are I use.
The biggest knife I use now has a 4"blade.

For me, any long knife is difficult to work with; the longer the knife the less accurate my cutting is.Most of the work is done with the tip of the knife.
When I have to work on a roe-deer I shot, I want to make my cuts as accurate as possible and a short knife with a good sharpened edge makes this possible to me, with a long blade I get the feeling, my hand is to far away from what I am doing, and I am able to add some more pressure to my cutting if needed with a shorter blade.
If I would have to skin a grizzly and someone would hand me a potato-peeling knife to do the job, I possibly would think in a somewhat other way .

Paul I am close to your age also and fell the same way for useing a knife.

Here is one you mite want to check out. I have one and with my big hand this small blade works gr8. Love that triple laminated blade too.

Helle Knives Nying 6 3/4" Overall.
3" triple laminated stainless drop point blade etched Helle Norway
Wide curly Birch handle.

Interesting thread with many different small fixed blades. And I spotted three from Norway, the Brusletto Balder, Helle Speider and Helle Nying!
Helle Nying was kind of an odd design 33 years ago when new, but the model has been a great success for Helle and it's still in production. Many users felt that they really didn't need a long blade, but they still wanted a good handle. And, as Justold52 said, even with big hands you will get a good grip on the handle of Nying.

Balder has a very short blade (just around 2"), and is probably too small for most users. But a cute little knife it is!

Paul appreciates the precision you get when using a small blade.

For me, any long knife is difficult to work with; the longer the knife the less accurate my cutting is.[...]The biggest knife I use now has a 4" blade.

I feel the same way and prefer a quite small blade for most tasks. By all means, I do like bigger knives too, I just tend to use the smaller blades more often.

The traditional Norwegian fixed blade, the tollekniv, usually has a quite short blade, often 4" or less.

This model from Brusletto is inspired by the knives used by the old Vikings. A great knife for hiking!

Thought I'd revive this thread as I was going through some knife pictures and came across these two oddities:The best way I can describe them is miniature back-up diver's knives.One is stamped,"Answer" and the other is by Wenoka.These are the only two like this I have ever seen.Anyone else out there have any?

I don't remember seeing this thread before. Great thread.

Here is a Weske I picked up this Memorial Day weekend. It is 6-1/4" overall with 2-5/8" of blade.
I had not heard of Weske before. Goins says they were in Sandusky OH from 1946-1952.
It has jigged bone handles.
This is one of my favorite small fixed blades. I made this one.
The blade was made by Grand Leavitt of Idaho. I put on the Mammoth ivory handles and the mosaic pins.
It is a 5-1/4" copy of a Schrade Sharpfinger.

Now I will have to look for some of my other little fixed blades.

Dale

I think this one fits in here.
Cisco-6 in. OA., 2 3/4 in bld. Barbarie coast Ram handles, D2 steel, tapered tang w/ red spacers.
Mark

Here's my favorite-small hand made i bought back in the 90's from a maker here in Michigan that used to have a table at the local gun show's--i bought four knives from him that day three different colored bone handles and one with green wood that is a bit larger than this my sister in-law wanted it for a purse knife and as far as i know still carrie's it they were all stainless except the wood handle and scarry sharp this knife i carried squirrel huntin and it skint 50+ squirrel a week during harvest time-it has seen a Lansky one time and other than that has just been tuned on a set of Smith's Sharpening Sticks and has skinned thousand's of squirel a few deer and a coon from time to time. Etching is Palmer over Handcrafted over Hemlock,Mich. and stamped MP back is stamped SS also has about an inch of file work for thumb
Tried to show a pic of etching and stamp but my picture skills are to poor

These are two small damascus knives I bought 15 years or so in a German gunshop.
The owner had a friend who made those knives as a hobby, and allowed him to display them in his shop.
They were very moderateley prices, the smaller one has seen a lot of use, the other has never been used for some unknown reason.

A little over 7" is the smallest I have. ( its the only fixed I have)
Vintage Kissing Crane - Germany Solingen -Stag

Up for trade also!