4 brass liners on 3 blade stockman?

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Found and old bone handled 3 blade stockman the other day, it has no name but my question is why the 4 brass liners. There are two on one side and then the center and the outside one. Is this just something I have overlooked before or was it a regular procedure. And ideas? I will post picks during the day later.
 
I have a current production Case Stockman that has 4 liners - one on each side beside the handles, and then two sandwiched together in the middle. I would assume is it to give additional space to fit the third (crinked) blade in. As to why they didn't make an extra-thick center liner, probably cheaper to just use two standard ones instead of have to worry about maintaining separate parts.
 
It's pretty common. The extra liner is essentially a cut spacer, similar or identical to the cut center liner, which spreads the bolsters a tiny bit further apart and widens the blade well a little bit, allowing more room for tightly-nested blades. My Camillus-made Buck 307 also has the extra liner/spacer, adjacent to the spey blade. That affords a little more room for it to close, next to the crinked sheepsfoot blade.


David
 
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Thanks for responses, first time I have seen that on any of my old knives.
 
Here's a current GEC #66 Calf-Roper with 4-brass liners. On this knife it prevents the manufacture from having to krink all of the blades as "Obsessed with Edges" (David) said above.

From right to left - two lines laid together, a middle liner and the fourth liner against a cover.

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Here's a close-up of the bulky 3-layer Remington R-4 scout knife, made by Camillus, that is in my pocket today. Double brass liners on each bolster.

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A while back I started a thread on this very topic. I thought that the extra liner was called the "butt ugly manufacturing shortcut so we don't have to crink our blades properly" technique. Turns out that the proper term is side center scale.

- Christian
 
The "cut out side liner" is less commonly seen on older (pre 1960's) stockman knives unless they have a punch blade. The punch blade side was often double lined.
 
I have a couple old Camillus made Buck stockmans that have the same liner configuration - a 303 and 307 stockman.
-Rex
 
My Queen Cattleknife has the extra liner on the pile/punch blade side which can be seen here. I thinks it's one of my most well built knives.
 
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