A pleasant suprise...

cpirtle

cpirtle

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I picked up another Winchester late last week because it was a style I didn't have, a standard 1991 3.75" stockman. I'm not a huge fan of the stockman pattern in general, but this one caught my eye.

There was only one picture and I never really got a good feel for how the knife was configured, but I took the plunge.

I was shocked when I got it. Not only does it have some of the most stunning jig bone I have ever seen (pic's don't even come close), but it's a splitback, a design I'm particularly fond of....

I don't see too many splitback stockman, so I thought I'd share some pic's.

Fit and finish on this one is excellent and the blades walk and talk as good as any, it'll be seeing a lot of pocket time!

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Thanks USAFSP!

MM, if you look at the shot of the spine you will see where the blade springs for the primary blade "split" to form the individual springs for the 2 secondary blades. That's a splitback and are typically seen in whittlers like the Case Seahorse style knife.
 
Quite a playpus if you ask me.

I decided to look it up and Bluegrass called this pattern the "Stock whittler"...
 
Why the distinction? No sheepsfoot blade?

Nice knife.
 
Those Winchesters (1989 I think and early '90's) are nice and that pattern is a great find. Blugrass was putting together some very well done split/tapered backsprings then. Personally I thought they were about the best factory whittlers you could find at the time.
 
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