Photos Bird and Trout! Let's See 'Em!

[Whetstone39]

Thanks!

 

[Horsewright]

You are welcome and thanks @

 

[FSUwelder1212]

Couple ideas:

So several years back the wife decides she wants a car. Now we're truck folks not car folks, I barely fit and can't wear my hat:

Nichole called her car Foxy. The black Optima here.

So we've got an oversized three car garage. Its big, I mean a guy or gal can ride right in:

But its a knife shop/leather working shop:

Ain't room for cars. So Foxy is parked outside with the trucks. So one morning we go to start up Foxy to run to the store and no start. Long story short the bunnies had eaten the wiring harness. As the car had electronic everything it was an extensive harness, from bumper to bumper, to the tune of $3500!! "Hello, State Farm? Ya ain't gonna believe this shi....!" So I loose a third of the shop to Foxy. Now we've always parked outside, the kids parked their cars and trucks outside. How come now? I'd always tease Nichole that the bunnies like the new car smell. Fast forward to a few weekends ago, mid July. Josh our other son is in the Army. He's back from a year in South Korea and is home for a few days prior to going to Florida for his new assignment. So we have a party. Nichole's mom, in her new car, comes up for the weekend (ya already know where this is going don't ya?). She goes to leave on Monday, backs out and she has a warning light coming on saying she doesn't have any power steering. Well turns out her new Dodge is so electronic that even the power steering is electronic. She gets her car with 2,500 miles on it towed into the dealer. Bunnies strike again! Some other friends that are up for the party and stay the weekend too, get a warning light a couple of days later when they are back home. We get a text from them from the Ford dealer: "Shoot the bunnies, shoot all the bunnies!" So apparently, (no really), the wiring nowadays has soy based insulation that the bunnies find tasty. So they say put mothballs in a water bottle with holes punched in it and keep one under your car when ya park. Where's Stuart?, I say.

The issue with newer vehicles these days is the whole “going green” initiative of the last decade has driven the automotive market to use soy based insulation for wiring, animals love the stuff.

 

[Blake the Blade]

Looks like I can make out "Jarvenpaa Oy" when I zoom in on it... that's a really cool puukko Iisakki Jarvenpaa started making knives in the 1880's and are pretty popular amongst us knife gatherers Here is a link to his history:
https://www.iisakkijarvenpaa.fi/us/story

Thank you so much for this V.P. An absolutely fascinating chapter in the history of knife production. So glad you like the knife. Don't have many fixed blades and it's nice to know I've come across something a bit special. Need to find a nice sheath for it now. Thanks for taking the time to post the info.

 

[Tutone]

Robert Erickson - spalted mango bolster with snakewood

 

[Dan of Bazz Clazz]

Since B&T knives are some of my all-time favorites, I thought a "catalog" shot of what is out there and easily obtainable, primarily from production manufacturers - with a couple of customs thrown in because I simply could not - not photograph them.
The vast majority have a price tag of under $100.

For me this captures the beauty and utility to be found in the little knife!

Top Row:
Rocky Menefee - "16 Bore" in Snakewood
Horsewright, Dave Ferry - "Sonoran Belt knife" in Desert Ironwood
Arno Bernard - "Marabou" in Kudu Bone
Arno Bernard - "Wasp" (discontinued version) with Crocodile
LT Wright - "Coyote" (discontinued but you might still find a new one if you look around) in Elk
Moki - "Bird & Trout" in Red Sandalwood, MOP and Abalone
Boker Magnum - "Noblesse", Damascus blade, mystery wood scales
Bark River "Bird & Trout", Desert Ironwood
Canal Street - "Trailing Drop Point Hunter", Antique Ivory Smooth Bone.
CRKT - "Hunt & Fisch", Multi-colored G10

Bottom Row:
AG Russell - "Woodswalker", Rucarta Smallest of the bunch at 6" OAL
Enzo - "Necker 70", White Micarta
Browning - "Overtime Green", Green & Black Micarta
Boker Arbolito - "Nicker", Stag
Browning - "Escalade B&T", Jigged Bone Longest knife of the group, 8.5" OAL
Ken Onion - "Limited ed. Bird and Trout", Polished Black G10
Grohmann - "#2 - Bird and Trout", Rosewood
Buck - "102 Woodsman", Phenolic Handle. My first Hunting knife, bought around 1972.
Colt - "Bird and Trout", Brushed Stainless Steel
CRKT - "Mossback B&T", Black & Grey G10
Hess Knifeworks - "Bird and Trout", California Buckeye Burl

 

[WolfyW]

Incredible photo, Dan !

 

[ddavis]

Bird and Trout size knives seem to be about perfect size for EDC and most of my camping chores.

GEC H73 Canoe in 1095, nickel silver and chestnut.
Behring Made mini Trout and Bird, O1, stag and copper.
Hattori/Bob Lum collaboration marked as a "Seki Cut", VG10, brass and cocobolo.

The Behring Made has seen quite a bit of use this summer doing camp food prep and as an EDC around the house. I'm not sure quite how I feel about the crazy upswept tip and the hammer-mark finish in use, especially when slicing food. Going to take it deer hunting this fall to see how it does. Might be a little small but then again, it reminds me of a Sharpfinger and that's one of the great classic hunting/fishing knives.

 

[HFinn]

Would this qualify as bird and trout? This a russian knife, Yasniy Sokol Berezka (Birch). Overall 236 mm, blade 113 mm. D2 steel, handle is G10.

 

[HFinn]

Or this Tojiro Hiyori?

 

[screened porch]

The Sokol looks canonical to me. I don't know what I'd call the Hiyori, but it's a b&t if that's what you use it for and it works for you.

 

[Instant_Intellectual]

Here are the knives I would judge to be "True" Bird & Trout knives. Then there are the small Fixed blades, that are great for EDC and all around outdoor fun.

Which knife is that 4th from the top with green handles and a horse? stamp on the blade?

 

[Dan of Bazz Clazz]

Would this qualify as bird and trout? This a russian knife, Yasniy Sokol Berezka (Birch). Overall 236 mm, blade 113 mm. D2 steel, handle is G10.

Or this Tojiro Hiyori?

They would both make it into my collection!
Are they currently available anywhere?

 

[HFinn]

They would both make it into my collection!
Are they currently available anywhere?

Not sure, not on a Bf endorsed shop anyway.

 

[Horsewright]

Some I finished recently:

 

[JohnDF]

Some I finished recently:

Beautiful knives and leatherwork. You have really mastered the edge burnishing.

 

[Horsewright]

Thanks John @ JohnDF. I sand, then burnish when wet molding and then hit em again with Quick Slik (Barry King) after they have dried. Then two coats of Bag Kote on the edges. When burnishing I use a wood lathe that has a rosewood stick with different size grooves turned on it to power burnish.

 

[Hickory n steel]

If this ain't a bird and trout I don't know what is.
( Before and after )




All I can tell you is that it's a queen, no clue on age or even it's model number ( two things I've been trying to find out )

 

[veitsi_poika]

If this ain't a bird and trout I don't know what is.
( Before and after )




All I can tell you is that it's a queen, no clue on age or even it's model number ( two things I've been trying to find out )

My Queen B&T is a 1945-1955 stamp so I would say yours is before that when they used Rogers Mfg bone, maybe the 1937-1945 stamp was on it? Can you see Queen City on the tang?

 

[Hickory n steel]

My Queen B&T is a 1945-1955 stamp so I would say yours is before that when they used Rogers Mfg bone, maybe the 1937-1945 stamp was on it? Can you see Queen City on the tang?
View attachment 1046825

Mine has no tang stamp.
The pommel is steel btw,