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Evening ladies and gents. A while back when I was first getting back to knives, I remembered the name Robeson and their legendary strawberry bone. This missive speaks to my first keeper Robeson. A big round of applause :applouse: goes to Mr. Noyes from this forum for helping to guide me to two important purchases. First was the romance of collecting knives, by Dewey and Lavona Furgeson, in which I learned about the Robeson. And from the drawings I selected a few models I was after. Second purchase was the knife you're about to see. It is not a famous strawberry bone (I'll get that in time.) But it is a solid example of a Robeson, during the mid to late 40s I believe. Methinks it got cleaned up some, who did a pretty decent job. I'll have to get patina back on it. This knife came into the fold right after a few other 4 inch stockmans, and with another model (Camillus 69) convinced me that there was life outside split back whittlers and congresses. Without further ado:
A question, for you more familiar with stockmans than I. That spey blade, is about the longest I've seen in my limited view of 4 inch stockmans. Is their an advantage to having it longer like that in relation to the geometry of the handle?
A question, for you more familiar with stockmans than I. That spey blade, is about the longest I've seen in my limited view of 4 inch stockmans. Is their an advantage to having it longer like that in relation to the geometry of the handle?
