Bob Cargill Cripple Creek Knives

Coax your pics aren't showing. I would encourage you to consider a paid membership which provides you with a number of advantages for very little cost. A gold membership would be my suggestion. It is very easy to post pictures and also communicate privately with other members. We look forward to seeing your photos and welcome to the traditional forum.
 
The 10th Anniversary knife was a Pearl 5 blade Gunboat Canoe. (old photo)
Greg

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Coax, if you're around, with the basic membership I believe you can get private messages. Could you check and see?
We would greatly appreciate seeing that knife of yours.

Here's a very rare Canoe Jack from 1983. The photo is from a one of our BF members. Thanks Barry. There were only a handful of Canoe Jacks made
and having a dated Oak Leaf Shield is even more rare. Rare, like the only one.
Greg

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mckgreg said:
Coax was kind enough to send me some photos to post of the 2nd Anniversary knife so I stitched a few of them together. This knife isn't seen very often and there
were only 10 of them made 35 years ago.
Greg

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Wow! Thanks Greg. Thanks for sharing Coax.
 
mckgreg said:
Coax was kind enough to send me some photos to post of the 2nd Anniversary knife so I stitched a few of them together. This knife isn't seen very often and there
were only 10 of them made 35 years ago.
Greg

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Now that is something special. Thanks for posting the pics and thank you Coax for sharing them.

The canoe is divine too Greg. What a stout looking beauty.
 
View attachment 1080438 View attachment 1080439 View attachment 1080441 View attachment 1080439 View attachment 1080439 View attachment 1080439 Bob's favorite material, according to what I've seen from him in a couple of places, was high carbon steel, but, he did use some others.
The small red-bone tail release lock-back is etched with 440C. It is about 3 1/4"--closed.
The black micrarta®(?) sidelock from 1983 is made, not of steel at all, but of stellite® and so the 6-K etching on the blade. It is about 3 1/2" closed.
The LI9 Barlow has a Damascus blade. It is most likely from the mid-80's when most of the Barlows seem to have been made.
 
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Trying to post this has been an experience for me. The letter from Bob is above and I'll try to put in the other three knives, here.
Doesn't want to take them "TOO LARGE" There is a 2 Blade plain and brown scale and a single blade stag. Confused one of the 2009 Queens for one of the etched ones. What nonsense!
 
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NewBlades16 said:
Some wonderful examples here. Are these currently in your collection?
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Unfortunately, almost none of my Cargill Knife nor Cripple Creek Cutlery is remaining with me. Just had to pull the money back out. Still have the Black Micarta® side lock, with the Stellite® blade, above, though. Don't know why, but it's always been my favorite! SILLINESSES!
 
mckgreg said:
These knives were made for Houston Price. I am not completely sure how many were made but going by memory it is around 30.
The 1985 Smoke Signals mentions Bob making them but I didn't see the amount.
Greg

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mckgreg said:
These knives were made for Houston Price. I am not completely sure how many were made but going by memory it is around 30.
The 1985 Smoke Signals mentions Bob making them but I didn't see the amount.
Greg

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mckgreg said:
These knives were made for Houston Price. I am not completely sure how many were made but going by memory it is around 30.
The 1985 Smoke Signals mentions Bob making them but I didn't see the amount.
Greg

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I hadn't ever seen this particular "dog knife" before, but I do have one that looks different, an LI4 second pattern.DSC_0256.jpeg
 
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