All About Pocket Knives

This is my first post to the forum and I feel pretty inferior. Over the past month I have read all of the topics discussed on the forum with awe and amazement as to the knowledge of this group. Bringing my meger knife knowledge to the forum will do nothing to enhance the the forum's knowledge base.

I have always tinkered in knife collecting but have only recently really got addicted to it. I have always been fond of quality in any purchases I make and when a friend recently showed me a Schatt & Morgan Premier No. 8, I was amazed at the apparent quality. I have since both several of the S & M File & Wire, Premier, and Standard line knifes.

In the S & M File and Wire line of knifes, I have been unable to understand how many and how often they are introduced. Can anyone help me that that?

Thanks again for allowing me to enter your group.

Merry Christmas!!

Randy

Welcome to the sight Randy!
As far as your S&M question goes, I do not have an answer for you, but I am sure someone here will!
Just wanted to say welcome, and don't feel inferior, we are always learning from each other here!

Randy ; Welcome to AAPK !!!

Schatt & Morgan are high quality knives. Very good chose I have only one. She is the QUEEN of my collection and I will get more too.

I too am new to collecting knives so I can not help you out. Sunburst will jump in here I am sure. If he his not in the outhouse!

randy.stephens wrote:This is my first post to the forum and I feel pretty inferior. Over the past month I have read all of the topics discussed on the forum with awe and amazement as to the knowledge of this group. Bringing my meger knife knowledge to the forum will do nothing to enhance the the forum's knowledge base.

I have always tinkered in knife collecting but have only recently really got addicted to it. I have always been fond of quality in any purchases I make and when a friend recently showed me a Schatt & Morgan Premier No. 8, I was amazed at the apparent quality. I have since both several of the S & M File & Wire, Premier, and Standard line knifes.

In the S & M File and Wire line of knifes, I have been unable to understand how many and how often they are introduced. Can anyone help me that that?

Thanks again for allowing me to enter your group.

Merry Christmas!!

Randy

Welcome to the sight. Remember that a question is just as good as an answer. While I have my own niche and can answer many Bulldog or custom questions, I always learn from the questions and responses where I'm not very knowledgable, such as this one.
All I know on this one is how the file and wire name came about. It references the old days where a knife was hardened and tempered. The knife must be hard enough so that a file skates across the surface of the blade without leaving a mark. Not so hard that it is brittle, while cutting a wire the blade does not chip. Oh, and they are using some great steel alloys in their blades.

Welcome aboard Randy. This is a great place to be

randy.stephens wrote:
In the S & M File and Wire line of knifes, I have been unable to understand how many and how often they are introduced. Can anyone help me that that?
Randy

Hello Randy welcome to AAPK,

As you can see from reading the topics like you described there are some incredible folks on this forum. I have learned a lot from each and every one of them and learn something new almost everytime I log on to read their post. Please don't feel inferior in anyway, we are all learning and have plenty of room to learn some more. Some folks like me have a long way to go and not much room upstairs for storage but thanks to the patient folks here at AAPK they work around those shortfalls....

1998 saw the inaugural offering by Queen of a Schatt & Morgan "Select" File & Wire Tested folding hunter knife. Queen advertised these knives as the best of the best knives they make. File & Wire Tested "an exclusive trademark of Schatt & Morgan" is in reference to an "old tempering process used by Schatt & Morgan before Rockwell hardness evolved". This name refers to testing techniques from the early 1900's, used by Schatt & Morgan cutlers to check the hardness of a blade by cutting a wire of known consistency and hardness." Beginning in 1998 the factory planned to produce the File & Wire knives as a limited edition series with a number of different patterns, each being produced for only one year. Although these exceptional and beautiful knives could easily be put into daily use, the company increasingly produces and markets these knives more for the collector market than for the user market.

The current production to date is 15 knives all being made with the worm grooved bone. I was told that in January the next issue will be released in a 2 blade Mountain Man Trapper with Green Stagged Bone handles.

Here is a nice site for File & Wire tested knives, that is almost up to date.

http://www.mchenryknives.com/collection ... fandw.html

I hoped this helps a little, ask more questions if needed...

Regards,

Sunburst

Randy, welcome to a very interesting forum for knife lovers and knife nuts of all kind.

As you can see, I'm not exactly an old timer here as well. I'll be happy to pitch in anything I find out from time to time though, and I like to bring up topics that I hope will cause thought and bring out even more information for future searchers about knives and collecting.

I hope you enjoy every visit, and if you find you need to liven things up with more questions I'm sure these fine gentlemen will all try their best to help you out.

Have a Merry Christmas Randy.

Al