Case Loomfixer

To my eye, the recent GEC 93 could be viewed as a kind of Loomfixer especially if it had the addition of a secondary pen blade.

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5K Qs 5K Qs , yes the RR Half Hawk is a loom fixer. Yours is a tough one to get a hold of with the acorn shield. (It’s the one I’m missing). Nice knife. Great pattern isn’t it?

Case, KA-BAR and others made the pattern. It’s one of my favorites, I don’t understand why it’s discontinued.
 
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eveled said:
The unwritten rule always was resurrection was ok, if it was pertinent. I felt I was adding to the thread.

5K Qs 5K Qs , yes the RR Half Hawk is a loom fixer. Yours is a tough one to get a hold of with the acorn shield. Nice knife. Great pattern isn’t it?

Case, KA-BAR and others made the pattern. It’s one of my favorites, I don’t understand why it’s discontinued.
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I wasn't criticizing.
 
scrteened porch said:
I wasn't criticizing.
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No worries. You were the third person to say something about it, so I figured I should explain myself.

Nice looking Loom Fixer! It’s darker than my Case. Almost Black?

Will Power Will Power that GEC would be awesome with a pen blade. It’s what I would have called a rope knife, but it’s missing the bail. Super nice knife.
 
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eveled said:
No worries. You were the third person to say something about it, so I figured I should explain myself.

Nice looking Loom Fixer! It’s darker than my Case. Almost Black?

Will Power Will Power that GEC would be awesome with a pen blade. It’s what I would have called a rope knife, but it’s missing the bail. Super nice knife.
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Thank you. It's a very dark reddish brown or brownish red, is the best I can describe it.
 
Modoc ED said:
A pattern with at least three names - Curved Jack; Half Hawk; Loom Fixer. They make great working knives.

I sold my Case versions
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but still have these two from Rough Rider
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That yellow handled one looks mighty familiar. I should carry mine more often. It made short work of the over-hanging branches on the bike trail the last time I carried mine.
 
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I like Whalers and rope knives too, especially sway back ones. A lanyard on the shackle would be a good idea if on the water.

The second one up from the bottom is a KA-BAR and it is identical in shape and size to their Loom fixer with an added shackle and minus the pen blade

The “NEW ENGLAND” Whaler was supposedly another name for a Loom Fixer. But to me it wouldn’t be a Whaler without a shackle.
 
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A couple I have, Case Loom Fixer in bone and an early Schrade Cut Co, interestingly the Arnold Hoffman and Co company supplied dyes to the textile mills. This knife came out of the Deep South, an area known for many textile mills, I imagine the knives were given as advertising gifts to clients.


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Actually my older loom fixers carried the Case pattern until the shuttle fly looms disappeared in the late 70’s. Very handy for trimming leather from the shuttle boxes, trimming picker sticks, many other tasks. Looms had a lot of wooden parts in my early days in the mills. We didn’t supply them, only scissors and a reed hook. They bought their own tools. We made leather tool pouches for our fixers in our leather shop. They only carried a few tools, and we supplied roll around tool boxes (wooden built in house many years ago, Craftsman later on).
 
They bought their own tools. We made leather tool pouches for our fixers in our leather shop. They only carried a few tools, and we supplied roll around tool boxes (wooden built in house many years ago, Craftsman later on).
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Wow I’d love to see pictures of those, specially the wooden tool chests.
I really like old tools ;)
 
So to clarify, and yes I need that, are the Loomfixers different from other Rope or Whaler knives because of the swayback? And without Marlin spikes of course. :D
I would think the swayback would fit the hand a little better too. Thanks.
 
It would be cool if there were any photos in the factories of workers using them or wearing them.
 
lutejones said:
Wow I’d love to see pictures of those, specially the wooden tool chests.
I really like old tools ;)
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I never took any photos, didn’t think such things would be interesting to anyone at the time. My plant had been in operation since 1892, of course it had been updated over the years.

We had still had wooden floors in some areas and a carpenter shop to repair flooring, a cafeteria with cooks, a full machine shop. Ran a boiler for our slasher. Most of that vanished when the looms were upgraded to rapier then air jet. Went from 350 employees in weaving to 150 over time. We ran 24/7 and in my early years there, we stopped a week at July 4 and Christmas.

Lots of stories, some funny some not.
 
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