Anyone still carry a christy knife?

These are awesome and I have always wanted one.

They really remind me alot of the AG Russell Funny Folder despite being totally different mechanisms.
 
I have 2 of those funny folders. Both gifts from AG, one for my daughter, the cheaper model they no longer carry and the Titanium one with the ATS34 blade. They are great little knives in
 
Waaaaaayyyy back in my Supermarket stock boy days we all had cheap versions of those.. And this thread reminded me of that long ago forgotten fact!! THANKS!!! John
 
Lapedog said:
They really remind me alot of the AG Russell Funny Folder despite being totally different mechanisms.
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The Christy Knife is indeed a totally different mechanism, still made in America by a small family company on original tooling.

AG Russell's imported "funny folder" knife copies a version of Vandalia Slater's US patent 499,047 from June 6, 1893. Russell seems to have based his copy on the "Easifold" version made by John Watts of Sheffield, which follows the Slater patent very closely, including having a one piece blade.

A later version of the Slater knife was produced by (or for) the advertising company of Brown and Bigalow in very large numbers. These use a thin riveted blade similar in shape and thinness to the Christy blade, sandwiched between two thin spacers These were a competitive design having nothing to do with the Christy family or their sliding knife.

The history of the Slater knife and its derivatives deserves a thread of its own, as an interesting bit of knife history, perhaps overlooked as there have been no production models by Slater discovered.
 
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Bartleby said:
The Christy Knife is indeed a totally different mechanism, still made in America by a small family company on original tooling.

AG Russell's imported "funny folder" knife copies a version of Vandalia Slater's US patent 499,047 from June 6, 1893. Russell seems to have based his copy on the "Easifold" version made by John Watts of Sheffield, which follows the Slater patent very closely, including having a one piece blade.

A later version of the Slater knife was produced by (or for) the advertising company of Brown and Bigalow in very large numbers. These use a thin riveted blade similar in shape and thinness to the Christy blade, sandwiched between two thin spacers These were a competitive design having nothing to do with the Christy family or their sliding knife.

The history of the Slater knife and its derivatives deserves a thread of its own, as an interesting bit of knife history, perhaps overlooked as there have been no production models by Slater discovered.
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That is an awesome history. Thank you so much for the info. I had long wondered if that Slater style knife would be considered a traditional or modern design.

Actually biker celebrity Jesse James apparently has started a knife company and is releasing a version of that Slater design as his first production knife. I don’t want to post it here as it looks pretty untraditional. If you’re interested in looking though it is called the Jesse James Knives Nomad.

Seems to me he kind of botched the design by leaving the pivots in the design too loose sort of like a balisong.
 
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