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I am interested in starting a collection of the Hawbaker Specials. Wondering if anyone could share some pics. and some info. Doesn't matter what brand. Thanks Jeff

I found this ad for a modern day Hawbaker Special from Red Hill Cutlery and Canal Street. Red Hill might still have some. It looks like it would make a good addition to a Hawbaker Special collection.

Here's the one that I have, Canal Street in Ram's Horn, exclusive to Red Hill Cutlery.

I like them and someday will have more but for right now, this Robeson ShurEdge is my only Hawbaker.

T.J., I kinda got the envies over that Canal Street of yours. I'm liken those Ram's Horn handles.

Ram's Horn is a really nice handle material. Glad I got the 2010 AAPK LE in Ram's Horn as well as stag.

Beautiful Ram's Horn scales tjmurphy, congrats.

Here is a modern Primble Hawbaker I picked up about 2007.
Nice knife, good F&F and nice walk & talk.
I EDCed it for about a week and quit carrying it when I couldn't get it to hold an edge.

Dale and Jerry, are your knives marked as "Hawbaker Specials"? If not I think that they are referred to as "Improved Muskrats". The use of the Hawbaker name on the knife is authorized by the family and the 2009 that I have was the first authorization in, I think, 10-years. See here: http://www.redhillcutlery.com/index.php?cPath=22_261 Same pattern and blade configuration but unless authorized as such it is an Improved Muskrat.

In the spirit of show and tell, here is mine by Eye Brand.

Then it's an "Improved Muskrat"

I'm still gonna call it a Hawbaker Muskrat and they can just sue me.



Edit: Okay, I've changed my mind. I've decided to call it a "Hawbaker Style Muskrat". That should satisfy all the legal crap.

This is a Schrade "Improved Muskrat" (says it on the blade if you get it in the right light).

YOU GO GIRL. Ooooooooooooops!! I mear YOU GO DALE!!

DAMMIT!! I DID IT AGAIN. LET'S TRY IT ONE MORE TIME.

YOU GO GIRL Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I MEAN JERRY

Is the Canal Street a single spring knife?

Goin'. Goin'. Gone.

The Canal Street Hawbaker Special is single spring.

jerryd6818 wrote:Goin'. Goin'. Gone.

Where ya goin Jerry???

JEARL wrote:I am interested in starting a collection of the Hawbaker Specials. Wondering if anyone could share some pics. and some info. Doesn't matter what brand. Thanks Jeff

I guess that my main point was that there are "Hawbaker Specials" and there are Hawbaker Patterns which are not Hawbaker Specials. Make sense??

I am guessing that if it is marked hawbaker special it is, if not it is a improved muskrat? Even if it has the hawbaker blade?

Jeff

The "improved" tag that I hung on it may not be a totally accurate description, maybe "Hawbaker patttern" is better. But as far as I know, all Hawbaker Specials, with the exception of the very first one, are marked as such and were authorized by the Hawbaker family. I may be speaking completely out of my bounderies of expertise, but as I recall, that's what all the literature says. This is some pretty interesting reading. Scroll down to page 319 and there is a topic about the "Hawbaker Specials" which may make it more clear. http://books.google.com/books?id=LL_7wQ ... &q&f=false

tj, how come you have no calluses on those hands?? Lets see some on the tips of your fingers! Is that Martin too light to make a callus?

tjmurphy wrote:The Canal Street Hawbaker Special is single spring.

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Thanks. While you've got it close, how thick is it?

biglmbass wrote:

tjmurphy wrote:The Canal Street Hawbaker Special is single spring.

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Thanks. While you've got it close, how thick is it?

5/32 across the back

quote="Dave O"]tj, how come you have no calluses on those hands?? Lets see some on the tips of your fingers! Is that Martin too light to make a callus?[/quote]
Got nothing serious on the finger-tips. The HD-28 is a HOSS but it plays easy. I won't keep a guitar that hurts my fingers/hands or breaks strings. I play a pretty heavy rythem but haven't broken a string in 10-years. The last strings I broke were during the same song, nearly at the same time. Broke the G and the B. It was a brand new set of Elixer strings. Needless to say it was the first and last set of those strings I ever used. I currently use Martin SP-4200's, medium phosphorus bronze. [

This is a Case 1982 Improved Muskrat it was supposed to be a Hawbaker Special but some were rejected because of the quality of the bone. The front scales look good but the rear has a lot of white showing.
Bill

Yeppers, that's what the cited article says. That's a good one to have, should be pretty rare.

TJ there are probably fewer of these then the Hawbakers.
Bill