All About Pocket Knives

I've got this beautiful single blade pocket knife. Everything about it seems handmade because of small imperfections, but that is what drew me to it.

The handle appears to be hand sawn/jigged and based on the small imperfections on the blade, particularly down near the tang, it wasn't factory produced. There's no tang stamp, or any markings I've noticed.

What do all of you great brains think? Have you seen anything similar you could reference? Anything to go off of for age?

Gr8wazu wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 4:02 pm I've got this beautiful single blade pocket knife. Everything about it seems handmade because of small imperfections, but that is what drew me to it.

The handle appears to be hand sawn/jigged and based on the small imperfections on the blade, particularly down near the tang, it wasn't factory produced. There's no tang stamp, or any markings I've noticed.

What do all of you great brains think? Have you seen anything similar you could reference? Anything to go off of for age?

It kinda looks like the handles have been replaced and also the blade looks as if it might be a replacement as well. Maybe someone trying to make an old knife useful again. but that's only my thoughts.

I agree that it is a mix-up of parts.
The handles are very crude, not shaped to the knife at all.
The bolsters look like normal production parts, and while the blade has grinder marks all over it the nail-nick looks professionally cut.
I am guessing at the size, but maybe an Electricians knife that has been rehandled, and another blade ground to fit? Or an original blade "cleaned" on a grinder years ago?
I don't know, but if it was cheap I would have bought it as well. My house could possibly be "The Island of Misfit Knives".