All About Pocket Knives

I know Sunburst likes the 3 blade trappers, so I'll post a couple. The first is a Stag First Generation 3 Blade Old Dominion Trapper (1 of 300), another find. This is number 074. The second is one I've had and is a coonstripe celluloid 3 blade Trapper (1 of 40). I guess I have a thing for 3 blade trappers also.

Sniff, sniff... Aren't they a thing of beauty....


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Sunburst

OK since you asked. The Old Dominion up there is a First Generation Dog Leg Trapper. The Second Generation knives are also Dog Leg Trappers and they were made from left over First Generation Old Dominion parts. The Dog Leg Trapper was new and introduced in the First Generation. When talking 3 blade Bulldog trappers most think of this knife. This is a BKC 202 Charlie Dorton designed 3 blade Trapper. This is also referred to as a straight frame trapper. Jim Parker purchased the trademark rights in 1993.

Thanks Hukk,

Ok so if Charlie Dorton designed that 3 bladed trapper, was that the first 3 bladed trapper designed or just a Dorton design???

Since it seems that there are no older 3 blade trappers out there older than his design it would stand to reason that others after that were copies of his design...

And if that was the case just out of curiousity sake does he get royalties for other companies using that design...??

Lots of questions

Sunburst

I know that those are the first Bulldog Brand 3 blade trappers. I believe Charlie Dorton designed the 3 7/8 straight frame series BKC 201 - BKC 210-B, the 3 blade BKC 202, he defitely designed. I saw your 2 blade BKC 203 on eBay and if you put the 3 blade and 2 blade together, you'd have to believe the same designer did the work, they are so very much alike. This is just my impression, I have nothing in writing to prove it. I'm not sure who made the first 3 blade trapper, maybe some of our other members can fill us in. I don't know about the royalties either. But I can tell you that many companies make you sign a waiver before you start working that gives the company ownership of any invention, design, or creation that you may contribute. That way anything you do belongs to the company. I've had to sign those waivers when I worked for Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies. That way they don't have to pay a royalty. I don't know how it worked for Charlie Dorton.