Bartender Pattern...

[malextwo]

The Henckels to die for...

Mike

 

[1fartsmella]

Guys, Thanks for the compliments on the Henckels. Barry

 

[smiling-knife]

One more for now.

 

[smiling-knife]

Ok... this is not the most beautiful knife, but it does have a unique feature that I thought might be of interest. Every knife shown so far has the worm fixed to the frame, thus limiting its length to 1/2 to 2/3 of the handle length. This has a sliding worm which means it is relatively much longer and potentially a more useful length given a compact package. Initially, the worm pulls out parallel to the handle until the grove in the base catches on a bar, after which it swings away from the handle and locks in a perpendicular position. I hope the photos will illustrate this process.

 

[sunnyd]

Thats an impressive and interesting feature there on that H.& Co. knife, Smiling-Knife! :thumbup:

 

[smiling-knife]

Thanks very much sd... cheers!

 

[KnifeHead]

That's pretty darn cool s-k. And the other thing that's cool is I'm going to start calling those corkscrews "WORMS"

 

[IVANKERLEY]

Case on facebook answers questions amazingly fast :thumbup: 41 minutes fast
Very Nice. Heres the answer to my question regarding this pattern

Ivan, thanks for the kudos they are wonderful knives! The Bartender's Knife is a "cousin" to the Gunstock - both variants are in the Case XX Vault (starting 7/1/09). http://www.wrcase.com/vault/whats_locked_up/

So it's been vaulted... but wont stop me from using mine, no safe queens for this guy
cheers
ivan

 

[smiling-knife]

That's pretty darn cool s-k. And the other thing that's cool is I'm going to start calling those corkscrews "WORMS"

All of the knives shown so far have a wire worm; some are flutted (grooved). I hope I have not strayed too far off the original topic.

 

[1fartsmella]

An old ULSTER with stag handles. I believe the cap lifer feature on the wire cutter blade dates this knife circa 1910. It's an interesting knife constructed like a whittler. The wire cutter blade bears on both back springs & has a catch bit style spacer on part of one of the back springs creating space for the master blade.

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[cnas122]

There is a dandy Dietmar Kressler interframe custom on Donato's purveyor site (am I allowed to refer to his site). Can't imagine spending that kind of money to open a bottle of wine, but it's a very clean looking pattern

 

[smiling-knife]

That's another beauty Barry. Thanks for showing it. I'm thinking it may be from circa 1920s. I'm not really familiar with that company. It is my understanding that the champagne cage became twist-off sometime after WWI so the wire cutting blade was no longer needed and was replaced with a crown cap opener or foil cutter. As always, I'm happy to be corrected though.