All About Pocket Knives

Since I'm new here I thought I would show some of my trappers. I just started collecting last December but the bug has bit me big time

Rich; Those are awesome!

It's easy for the bug to bite hard! Nice trappers Rich! Kelley

Thanks guys, The hunter green has a damascus blade, I think 4 are n&s. All my life I lost knives as quick as I got em. My boss started giving knives as incentive to turn in near miss accident reports and that got me started Come to find out that I work with a couple of men who have literaly hundreds of knives, and they really got me started collecting.and now the bug has got me

nice bunch of trappers there.

If you are going to catch something, it may as well have something to do with knives Nice Catch!

Fantastic harem I see you too like COLOR.


richied; ("I work with a couple of men who have literaly hundreds of knives")
Tell them to join in here a AAPK. Please.
We all can learn for others.

I'll tell them but these men are old and don't know what a computer is

I will get some of their knives and post pics

yea justold ,I guess I get that from the late 60's and early70's lol

nice bunch of trappers there.

Trappers...oh yeah!! Those are quite nice.

I like Trappers, here are a few of mine.....

Ahhhh Trappers my favorite flavor of knife...Very nice trappers guys, fantastic collections... Hey Bill that Cripple Creek is outstanding...

Sunburst

Awesome collection

sunburst wrote:Hey Bill that Cripple Creek is outstanding...

Sunburst

Yeah, I like the Cripple Creek, but I also like Bob Ham and I do like that trapper by Ty Montell, that looks to be very classy to me. An excellent custom trapper.

Thanks gents.

A couple more while I'm messin' with the pictures.
1 with a saw, and two single blades for Hukk...

NEXT!

Thanks Bill, there is something special about single blade trappers to me. Maybe it's just an elegant simplicity. Both are fantastic, Mastodon ivory looks great! Heck, they both do and they are very different. Thanks for sharing.

For right now I am going to say my FAVERATE Trapper (that I own is).
This Colin Paterson Custom.

justold52 wrote:For right now I am going to say my FAVERATE Trapper (that I own is).
This Colin Paterson Custom.

Whew!!! Ken that is one incredible knife That abalone is fantastic and the filework is to die for..

Sunburst

Great looking knives, makes me want to spend money

sunburst wrote:

justold52 wrote:For right now I am going to say my FAVERATE Trapper (that I own is).
This Colin Paterson Custom.

Whew!!! Ken that is one incredible knife That abalone is fantastic and the filework is to die for..

Sunburst

Yes indeed. The thing about red or green abalone is it is a west coast special. In California there is no commercial fishing of abalone allowed for the last 10 years. It does not look like there will be any commercial fishing for abalone anytime in the near future. There are red and green abalone populations in Mexico, most believe they are over fished. There is a small population of red abalone only in southern Oregon, sport fishing only.

The Paua abalone in New Zealand is in danger of losig it's commercial season also, with the annual take calculated at 85% as being illegally harvested or undersized. Obviously, the fishery can't handle this pressure as it takes an abalone about 14 years to reach the minimum size limit.

To use abalone as knife handles, only 2% of shells, at best are usable for knives. What is commonly used now is laminated abalone sheets and veneers. Now I have seen 1/8 inch thick sheet (9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) of red abalone selling for about $1800.00 and 3/16 selling for $2795.00 if you can find it. They have run out of red abalone shell and it is very unlikely that they will get more. The major supplier was California and abalone hasn't been commercially harvested for 10 years. Only Mexico can supply a few. We still have a sport season and free divers can take 24 in a year and only 3 in posession at any one time. Selling ANY part of the sport caught abalone can land you in PRISON for 3 years, not jail, PRISON under the charge of conspiracy against the state of California.

What dos all this mean? It's my opinon that abalone handled knives will go the way of the tortise shell knives of bygone years. At some point, they will not be able to make any, due to supply for one. Prices should continue to rise for rawshell. I do not believe that farm raised abalone will be old enough to have an abalone heart pattern, that comes from the center of large shells only.

I've been an abalone diver for a long time and have seen a lot of changes. I do expect to see abaloe handled kives to fetch a lage premium in the future. Since this is my favorite sport I do keep track of world trends.

It is pronounced ab-baloney or ab-ba-lonee , like the lunch meat. I saw that knife show on TV last night (bored and they pronounce it wrong). I always hear it pronounced wrong.

I do see investment potential in abalone handled knives. At this time, there is already less abalone available for knives than there is Mammoth or Mastodon Ivory.

If anyone has any abalone questons please feel free to ask me.

Ken, that knife sure is a beauty!

Thanks Sunburst, and Hukk. I fell like a 6th grade girl just kissed me. (back when I was in 6th grade)
Dang that a long time ago. I went to a ONE ROOM School all throw the first 7 grades.

It took Colin to bring his Artiste to make this knife for me.
Here is what she looked like before.

That is a very nicely embellished knife Ken...

Just as info, I believe that was a 296Y, where the picture says 926Y. No matter, a beauty for sure. Colin does nice work, especially the filework.

Some vine filework on the back of the single bladed Montell...

Bill

Boys, them are some mighty fine Trappers indeed. Lobo, really like that Montell, awesome man.

Singin46