Ex Stockman
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:15 pm
I was talking to a guy that I know and see at the gunshows and he always has a bunch of knives of assorted types and I ended up making a trade with him last weekend. We were all done with our deal and I picked up another knife from his table just to see what it was, and noticed that it was a stockman with the master clip blade broken off. He said" yeah, I am going to throw that one in the trash unless you want it for parts". I looked at it again and told him it could be used for parts or redone to make a good user out of it. He said "No Way" and I said "Way". He said if I made a user out of that junk then he wanted to see it at the next gunshow. I told him I would see what I could do. I think it is a Camillus stockman, all that is visible of the tang stamp is the bottom half of USA on the broken tang. I made it into a 2 blade knife. It had the original fake stag plastic scales, so I redid them with some burl oak that I had salvaged from a board on a pallet and dyed with dark brown leather dye. Didnt turn out too bad. It will be priceless to see the look on his face when I next see him in a couple of weeks at the next gunshow and stick it back into his pocket to use. One problem, what to call it. Ex stockman, serpentine pen (although pens do not have sheepsfoot and spey blades), Frankenknife, or what do you think?
