Another of My Favorite Pattern

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The Scout Pattern.

Camillus C4.

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That Camillus scout is a beauty, leghog! I like the blade combination: classic spearpoint and caplifter, a low-profile awl (reminds me of one on my old Leatherman), a saw, and a serrated blade.

I think I'd like a knife that included a serrated secondary blade; I used a cheap plastic-handled steak knife for decades for food prep, and have a soft spot in my heart (and maybe my head :p) for serrated blades.

- GT
 
Nice! I had one just like it but I was afraid it would get lost in my collection move out to TX so I gave it to my nephew.
 
Well, now that is just breathtaking. That knife just looks right, you know? I can't put my finger on it exactly, but it just all fits together. It reminds me of a knife out of Sheffield in the late 1800s for some reason. I'll have to keep staring at it so I can try to figure it out.
 
I've collected a few of the scout/utility pattern, liked them for a long time. The Camillus I've got like Leghogs is on the bottom left of this photo. It has a plain edged sheepfoot instead of serrated. The Case 6445 above it had a heavily worn blade, so I reshaped it into a clip point style. The one on the bottom right was my grandfathers knife; a Pal made in the late 1940's. He died in 1954. I found it in an old dresser drawer in the barn room that had been used as a corncrib at one time.
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Left side
Case Junior Scout amber bone
Case 64045R, jigged delrin
Case 6445R, red bone
Camillus C-4, jigged delrin
Case 64045R made by Camillus

Right Side
Ulster 10th Mountain Division Utility, brown jigged bone, 1940's
Ulster Scout, jigged brown bone
Boker 6 blade utility, black delrin molded in a stag pattern
Pal Cutlery, yellow and smoothish now, was probably brown with deeper jigging at one time.
 
Nice collection Phil. Interesting that the only knife with out a screwdriver blade is the Ulster 10th MDU. Thanks for sharing. :)
 
The 10th Mountain knife has a small Phillips screwdriver, which is barely visible not opened in my picture. I was told that it was intended to tighten ski binding screws. I do like the clip point main blade and short sheepfoot.

When I bought the Camillus C-4, the shop owner still had several Camillus knives old stock in their boxes. The first one he opened for me to look at did have a serrated sheepfoot, the second one had floppy weak springs, and the third was the one I bought with the plain edged blade. I have no real experience with serrated blades and wasn't gung ho to try one, so the plain edged was the one I chose. An old friend of mine from school has a collection of Remington knives, the modern ones being Camillus built, and the sheepfoot on some of those Remingtons was hair popping sharp when I looked at them. I may have liked the serrated edge?? Will never know now.

I carried it hunting with me one day last week, and tried out the saw blade on a tree limb that was in my way where I was sitting. It did not cut very well at all, the design of the teeth is not good compared to Victorinox's design. I had an Alox Harvester for several years before I lost it, and the saw design was excellent. Need to buy another like that. The Harvester had a short hawkbill pruner style blade that I never used much, but there are several other configurations.

I used to have two more of the Camillus built Cases; a yellow delrin four blader, and the one with the scissors in it. Weak springs, useless scissor and very thick and heavy. Traded these two off. I probably should have kept them for the the "collection"!
 
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