Case Brown Medium Stockman Question

[Doug S]

I've been looking at the Case Medium Stockman with the brown, jigged handles. According to the Case website the "6" stamped at the head of the blade number should indicate bone handles. That said, all the websites, including the case site state jigged "synthetic" handles for this model . Can anyone shed some light on this? Is the website information inaccurate?

Thanks for any help.

 

[rifon2]

Do you have Case's Item number (rather than Model number) for the specific knife you're referring to?

 

[Doug S]

Thanks for the quick reply. Here is the info from the site.

W.R. Case Working Knives
Medium Stockman #0217
63087 SS
Clip, Spey and Pen Blades
3 3/8" closed; 1.8 oz.

Below is the information from the section entitled "Case College", on the Case website. According to the "college",

6 - Bone - Procured from Brazil, the shin bone of the Zebu cattle are the main source of bone suitable for Case bone handle materials.

63087 is a 087 pattern knife wih jigged bone handles and 3 blades.

The 6 is handle material, 3 (number of blades), 47 is pattern number.

Evidently this information isn't entirely accurate.

 

[knifeaholic]

It is a little tricky, but the "6" number traditionally was only used for jigged bone....then in the mid 60's when Case started using substitutes that resembled bone (jigged brown laminated wood and jigged brown delrin), they continued to used the number "6" as the handle code.

So the "6" is used for bone and for composition materials that resemble bone.

Kind of odd but that's the way things evolve sometimes.

 

[d.parker]

It is a little tricky, but the "6" number traditionally was only used for jigged bone....then in the mid 60's when Case started using substitutes that resembled bone (jigged brown laminated wood and jigged brown delrin), they continued to used the number "6" as the handle code.

So the "6" is used for bone and for composition materials that resemble bone.

Kind of odd but that's the way things evolve sometimes.

knifeaholic your information is entirely correct. Do you know when case started putting Laminated wood on elephant toenails? I thought it was in 62-64 XX and I always thought this to be true, but I have read it was later so I really don't know when Case in fact did start...

 

[Doug S]

knifeaholic & others,

Thanks very much for the info, and responses.

 

[knifeaholic]

knifeaholic your information is entirely correct. Do you know when case started putting Laminated wood on elephant toenails? I thought it was in 62-64 XX and I always thought this to be true, but I have read it was later so I really don't know when Case in fact did start...

You will see laminated wood specimens starting with the XX stamp, yes. Although some bone 6250's were made with the USA stamp and are extemely rare. So they used the laminated wood on and off on the 6250 but switched to it 100% sometime between 1965-1970.

 

[d.parker]

You will see laminated wood specimens starting with the XX stamp, yes. Although some bone 6250's were made with the USA stamp and are extemely rare. So they used the laminated wood on and off on the 6250 but switched to it 100% sometime between 1965-1970.

Thanks knifeaholic, what you have stated I thought was the fact. I read where laminated wood wasn't used until 1970 USA Dotted on 50 patterns but thought this not to be correct.
Thanks again for the clarification...