All About Pocket Knives

herbva wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 5:03 pm Just when I thought I might have heard most of the obscure knife names, this Brantford popped up in an auction lot of 5 oldies that I fortunately won. I was about to start taking it apart when I heard a voice whispering to me to try a little TLC first. So I gave it a good cleaning, removed all the rust I could get at, reprofiled the broken tip, patched the 2 missing bone chunks and did a few other little tricks and, I think I'll leave it alone. The snap came back really good, so the knife must have been happy with the attention I gave it. Goins indicates that Brantford was a trademark used by Butler Brothers from 1910 to 1930, and the blades were etched "Warranted Never Dull". I guess the etch on this one is long gone. The blades were dull anyway. P.S. - I think the scales might be what is referred to as "pick bone". I don't think I'm even going to try to match this jigging in the areas I patched

edge213 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 5:13 pm

herbva wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 5:03 pm Just when I thought I might have heard most of the obscure knife names, this Brantford popped up in an auction lot of 5 oldies that I fortunately won. I was about to start taking it apart when I heard a voice whispering to me to try a little TLC first. So I gave it a good cleaning, removed all the rust I could get at, reprofiled the broken tip, patched the 2 missing bone chunks and did a few other little tricks and, I think I'll leave it alone. The snap came back really good, so the knife must have been happy with the attention I gave it. Goins indicates that Brantford was a trademark used by Butler Brothers from 1910 to 1930, and the blades were etched "Warranted Never Dull". I guess the etch on this one is long gone. The blades were dull anyway. P.S. - I think the scales might be what is referred to as "pick bone". I don't think I'm even going to try to match this jigging in the areas I patched

What did you use to patch the handles?
How did you match the color?
I use Acra-Glas, but I have a hard time matching the color.

FRJ wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 2:05 am Nice save on that Brantford. You rarely see Brantford and I don't see too many gunstocks floating around either.
A great combination to have.

Here's a little dogleg I have that I like to carry because it's so well built.

OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 5:16 pm this Brantford stockman I have is the only one I have ever seen.

Meridian_Mike wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 1:49 pm GREAT job on that nice knife!
Beautiful work on the handles and you did a great job of re-profiling the main blade. It looks really nice!
Very nice save!

orvet wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 7:40 pm Outstanding save Herb!
I haven't had much time to be on here lately so I'm catching up on some older post. I started by looking at the pictures and not reading... I thought you put new bone on there! Great job matching the color of the bone! That bone is excellent I wish we could find some like that today! I supposed a guy would have to make it himself.