Case Tony Bose Collabs pic and discussion thread.

[jsdistin]

I don’t know if it’s common knowledge or not but the bolsters and liners are milled from one solid piece. I’d assume that’s the case for all of them but this is the only one I know for certain.

 

[Ironbut]

I don’t know if it’s common knowledge or not but the bolsters and liners are milled from one solid piece. I’d assume that’s the case for all of them but this is the only one I know for certain.
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I thought I noticed that before, but I had to pull my Cattle Knife out of my pocket & check anyway. Yep, and on the Premium Stockman's too.

 

[Signalprick]

The cattle knife I just sold was not integral milled. You could see the seam a little around the bolsters. Interesting.

 

[Modoc ED]

I just checked my Premium Stockman and the bolsters and liners are one piece.

 

[jsdistin]

The cattle knife I just sold was not integral milled. You could see the seam a little around the bolsters. Interesting.

I don’t have much experience with these knives but I wonder if it could’ve been the rough sanding lines on the spine and around the edges. I had thought it looked like two pieces prior to disassembling it.

 

[bigfish64]

Here are a couple of pics of my wt. One picture looks like they might be, but the other one shows, at least on this knife, they are not integral.

 

[Signalprick]

It's really weird. It wouldn't be cost effective to make them integral and you can see the bolster lines on them but then again your pic is clearly milled.

 

[Pàdruig]

This is a curious discussion. I went and examined the four collabs that I have and all of them are either superbly fitted between bolster and liner or they are milled as integral. There are no decipherable lines between them, visual or otherwise - that includes the Eureka Jack, the WT, the Coffin Jack, and the Premium Stockman.

 

[Modoc ED]

Well, I got my Premium Stockman out again and used one of those multiple lensed magnifying glasses and for the life of me I can't detect a line between the bolsters and liners. I've noticed above that some say they see the line on the Cattle Knife but no one seems to be able to see it on the Premium Stockman and apparently Dylan Pàdruig doesn't see the line on those he listed. Notice he does not mention the Cattle Knife. Maybe some patterns have the milled bolsters/liners as one piece and other patterns do not.

 

[jsdistin]

It's really weird. It wouldn't be cost effective to make them integral and you can see the bolster lines on them but then again your pic is clearly milled.

Yeah it’s weird either way, but that picture by bigfish64 they’re clearly two pieces I wonder why they’re done in two different ways.

 

[brownshoe]

Ask Case. I asked about why ebony covers on the AK hunter have nickel silver shields while bone has steel and they told me.

 

[robbobus]

Ask Case. I asked about why ebony covers on the AK hunter have nickel silver shields while bone has steel and they told me.

Why is that? I noticed that on my coffin jack as it needed polishing but my other collabs have as.

 

[Will Power]

Interesting, I think the Pruner shows evidence of 'lines' but need the mag-glass on it. The Norfolk, where did I put it???

Perhaps we need to send them in for stripping down and verification...from those with the skill

 

[Peregrin]

I used a 10x loupe to examine the collaborations I have close by. None of these, to the best of my magnified eye, has milled one piece bolsters and liners. It was hard to see the line on a couple of them, but I found at least one tell tale spot on every one. It looks like it might be a more recent change in the manufacturing process of the collaborations.
2005 Lock back Whittler
2009 Norfolk
2011 Coffin jack
2013 Wharnclffe Trapper
2014 Lock back Whittler

 

[brownshoe]

Why is that? I noticed that on my coffin jack as it needed polishing but my other collabs have as.

Ebony is relatively soft and the covers are flat. They want the flat shield flush with the flat ebony. When sanding the covers with the shield attached, the ebony would be sanded below the level of steel shield. Nickel silver is softer, more like the ebony, it sands flush with the ebony.

 

[rpstrimple]

Alright I had to break mine out, I never noticed this before. I have 8 of the collabs, the only two that are close are the premium stockman and Damascus lockback whittler from 2014. My chestnut bone 2014 lockback whittler is clearly two piece so I’m assuming the finishing is just so well done on the Damascus that it’s hard to tell.

The stockman though does seem to be one piece, to my eye. All the others have at least one spot where I can see the two piece (these are so well finished it’s difficult).

For reference I have the:

Millennium trapper
Dogleg
Norfolk
Coffin Jack
Lanny clip regular
Lockback whittler (x2)
Premium stockman

 

[Murphjd25]

Now I’m going to have to get my Cattle knife and look again. I’m pretty sure I was able to tell the bolsters are not integral though.

 

[euroken]

Just checked mine also. Out of the four that I have, only the wharncliffe trapper didn't have the integrated bolsters. Lanny's Clip lockback, Lanny's Clip, and Premium stockmans have the integrated bolsters.

Pics

LC lockback

LC slip

WT

Premium stockman

 

[brownshoe]

Just because you can't see a seam doesn't mean it's an integral bolster. Some kniives don't show a seam until significant hard use.

 

[Murphjd25]

My cattle knife is NOT integral.