All About Pocket Knives

Cap lifters on parade

A very useful blade. Here's a few I have.

Some folks call it a cap lifter, others call it a crown lifter, hmmm I just call it a bottle opener.

Sling blade parody

Well . . . alright 'nen . . .

Stakeknife wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 12:36 am Some folks call it a cap lifter, others call it a crown lifter, hmmm I just call it a bottle opener.

Sling blade parody

An interesting tidbit of history is that GEC chose the name “Crown Lifter” as a friendly jab at Queen owner, Ken Daniels who formerly worked at Queen and GEC alongside Bill Howard, current owner of GEC.

It was an innocent joke implying that GEC would lift the crown off of Queen cutlery.

Little did Bill Howard know that Queen would indeed go out of business just a few years later.

If I may digress just a little, I love the way this "church-key" is made by s simple twist of a flat piece. It's just an ingenious piece of design.
Good idea for a subject. J.O'.

Ridgegrass wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 4:10 pm If I may digress just a little, I love the way this "church-key" is made by s simple twist of a flat piece. It's just an ingenious piece of design.
Good idea for a subject. J.O'.

That is an interesting and patented piece.

Gosh
A fish knife with a very cool cap lifter.
Outstanding!!

Ridgegrass wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 4:10 pm If I may digress just a little, I love the way this "church-key" is made by s simple twist of a flat piece. It's just an ingenious piece of design.
Good idea for a subject. J.O'.

Oh yeah

Actually, it's not a cap lifter. Maybe you're too young to remember beer cans before pull tabs. You had to punch a triangular hole in the steel top with a "church-key" as this opener was affectionately called. Here's an old multi-purpose can opener with a church-key on one end and a cap-lifter on the other.
That makes the knife above the perfect fishing knife. J.O'.

By the way, Church-keys are very collectible. Way back when, if you bought a case of beer, the store would give you a church key and they were stamped with the various beer brands. They sell now for a buck or so and there were many more brands then than there are now. Good, fun collecting and very reasonable. J.O.

Ridgegrass wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 10:15 pm Actually, it's not a cap lifter. Maybe you're too young to remember beer cans before pull tabs. You had to punch a triangular hole in the steel top with a "church-key" as this opener was affectionately called. Here's an old multi-purpose can opener with a church-key on one end and a cap-lifter on the other.
That makes the knife above the perfect fishing knife. J.O'.

Oh for crying out loud, I see it now, of course it is. It’s been so long since I’ve used one. I’ve never seen one on a knife.

Ridgegrass wrote: ↑Sun Jul 06, 2025 4:10 pm If I may digress just a little, I love the way this "church-key" is made by s simple twist of a flat piece. It's just an ingenious piece of design.
Good idea for a subject. J.O'.

And i thought I'd seen it all for shell handled knives. This is a good one you've got here for sure.

O'.