Bose Knives

I wish everyone could have the opportunity to try and PROPERLY fit stag to a knife with bolsters on both ends. We look at these things and have lots of adjectives to describe how great they look but have no idea how difficult it is to make that happen. Tony and Reese makes it look soooo easy and do it time and time again. This Anglo-Saxon Whittler covered in stag by Reese is a perfect example of properly selected and fitted stag. Oh and...yeah, the rest of the knife is pretty dang good too. :thumbup::D

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Gorgeous, perfectly matched stag, and those big round bolsters are just magnificent!

Truly awesome. Thanks, as always, Kerry.
 
Hello,

I'm kind of new in here, and because I was lucky enough to score 2 saddlehorns (one from Tony, one from Reese), I have few questions out of curiosity:
I'd like to know what kind of steel do they use for their liners and bolsters?
Is it 410 or 416 stainless steel or else, and why?
Is it a question to better perform the soldering between these 2 parts?
And because mine are made with jigged bone scales, what kind of bone is also used?

I know, that's a lot of questions and few pics...
I'll try to post some a little bit later, but here are 2 pics from Jon Ukman (many thanks my friend! :))
By the way, if any of you have any idea of the date of birth of these 2 beauties... ;)

The Reese:
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And the Tony:
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Augustus Cole said:
Hello,

I'm kind of new in here, and because I was lucky enough to score 2 saddlehorns (one from Tony, one from Reese), I have few questions out of curiosity:
I'd like to know what kind of steel do they use for their liners and bolsters?
Is it 410 or 416 stainless steel or else, and why?
Is it a question to better perform the soldering between these 2 parts?
And because mine are made with jigged bone scales, what kind of bone is also used?

I know, that's a lot of questions and few pics...
I'll try to post some a little bit later, but here are 2 pics from Jon Ukman (many thanks my friend! :))
By the way, if any of you have any idea of the date of birth of these 2 beauties... ;)
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410 has been used (mostly) due to the fact that it is a little harder than 416. It helps reduce the potential for dings and takes a better polished finish.

The bone on both of those knives looks like it was dyed and jigged by them (the makers). It would be very hard to date those knives based on the images but I think Tony's was made at least before 2006. I haven't seen him use his own jigged bone since then. Reese's is even more difficult to date because he almost exclusively uses his own jigged bone.

my $.02 worth :) Enjoy your Bose knives
 
We use 410 for bolsters, liners, and shields. It's basically the same as 416 except 416 comes in hot rolled bar stock and 410 comes in sheet stock. 410 is clean and flat and is harder than 416. I think it makes a better bolster cause it doesn't scratch as easy. The bone is shin bone from a cow and we jig and dye it ourself. For knives like the SH you can't buy bone that will work on them. Bone Shs are few and far between because of that.
 
Nice snag A.C. You got two great looking slip joints. I know they'll cut
as well! Congrats and enjoy...

Jason
 
KnifeHead said:
410 has been used (mostly) due to the fact that it is a little harder than 416. It helps reduce the potential for dings and takes a better polished finish.

The bone on both of those knives looks like it was dyed and jigged by them (the makers). It would be very hard to date those knives based on the images but I think Tony's was made at least before 2006. I haven't seen him use his own jigged bone since then. Reese's is even more difficult to date because he almost exclusively uses his own jigged bone.

my $.02 worth :) Enjoy your Bose knives
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Well, thank you very much for your $.02 answer!
I would have not guess that the SH made by Tony Bose was "so old".
The Reese Bose is marked "0": any new idea of his DOB?
Thanks!
 
Tony Bose said:
We use 410 for bolsters, liners, and shields. It's basically the same as 416 except 416 comes in hot rolled bar stock and 410 comes in sheet stock. 410 is clean and flat and is harder than 416. I think it makes a better bolster cause it doesn't scratch as easy. The bone is shin bone from a cow and we jig and dye it ourself. For knives like the SH you can't buy bone that will work on them. Bone Shs are few and far between because of that.
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Thank you very much for your explanations Mr Bose: it's always a pleasure to read information straight from the source!
Both knives are great.
I just started to use your SH at a dinner with friends and they really liked it... me too!
 
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