Barney Knife

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SeismicCWave

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Hello there,

My first post. I have been collecting a few knives for quite a few years. I have this beautiful knife (I have pictures but can't post them here without an URL) that has a name "Barney" stamped on it. I cannot find any information on Barney custom knives. Anytime time I do a Google search I get Richard W. Barney who wrote a book about how to make knives with Bob Loveless. I bought the book and did find one picture in the book with a knife that has the name "Barney" on it. The name is the same style as the one on my knife.

The knife I have is 11 1/4" long with a 6 1/4" drop point blade. Polished to a mirror finish. Bone handle.

I have scour many knife books and I cannot find anything about it. I appreciate any and all information. I am not too concern about value since I don't plan to sell it for any reason. It is simply too pretty a knife.

Thanks in advance.

Aloha
 
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Barney did not actually make a lot of knives. I have only seen one in person, and pictures of maybe three others. I know he did a lot by hand, although I don't think he normally did them all completely with hand tools the way he did the one in the Barney/Loveless book. The knife itself doesn't look like the ones that I've seen, but since I've seen so few that doesn't mean much. The sheath is a copy of 19th century styles. The metal stud was meant to either be shoved through the belt with the stud keeping it in place, or to have a secondary sheath or belt loop fitted over it frog style, and held by the stud.
 
Thank you. I figured RW Barney must not have made a lot of knives since I literally cannot find any information about his knives. I found it interesting since the knife shape is pretty different from most of the modern designs. For some reason the stud on the sheath reminded me about some old fashion military belt that has oval shaped grommets and the stud will fit through while the knife and sheath is horizontal and lock in place when the combination pivot to a vertical position. Then again I cannot recollect enough information to do a sensible search on the internet about the sheath. Find more about the history of the knife can be very interesting.
 
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