Day trip unearths fine Wostenholm: Anyone else have anything by this great maker?

Really nice knives being shown here, thanks lads couldn't have asked for more. They really are all lovely looking, high quality knives these. Particularly like Supracentorial's old junior cattle and jack's congress. Look forward to seeing that stag senator Chris. I'll certainly be looking out for Wostenholms in the future. Many thanks.

- Mark
 
Blake the Blade said:
I look forward to that Gevonovich and certainly do have some more photos to show you, which I will post tomorrow. I too very much like this particular pattern. It's surprising how similar it actually is in design to the small RR stockman shown, apart from the fact it has one less blade, a single spring and carbon steel blades of course. My point is I favour this particular type of knife. Yours too is very handsome, thanks for showing it. :thumbup:
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Infact Genovich if you click on the first of my photos above you should access a few more shots of the lovely Lewes including one or two of yours truly which, hopefully, will not spoil your enjoyment of the architecture too much. :p
 
Blake the Blade said:
Thank you Will, that is clearly a very nice little knife. Wostenholm was obviously a byword for quality in the knife world. Excuse my ignorance but this seems a good chance for me to ask what constitutes a 'sleeveboard'. Many thanks. Mark. :thumbup:
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Mark When somebody doesn't know and asks for clarification it's never ignorance in my book, it's a love of learning:thumbup::thumbup: Ignorance is presenting to understand something when you don't and perpetuating misinformation :grumpy: As far as I understand it, a Sleeveboard type knife is a pattern with the top bolster noticeably wider than the bottom one (kind of bomb or torpedo shaped) usually single-spring and always with a blade at each end. So named, due to a kind of contraption that ironing-boards sometimes had attached to them for the ironing of sleeves on shirts. Hope this is correct and it helps. And yes, it's a fine small knife.:thumbup: England may have produced a mass of knives in the past but quality ones seem rather scarce. In my experience at least.

Thanks, Will
 
Mark, you certainly have a fine example there! :thumbup::thumbup:

I have no "pure" Wostenholm knives, but I have a couple of knives whose tang stamps carry both the Wostenholm name and the name of another maker (Schrade in one case, Rodgers in the other). I must admit that I don't remember (or possibly never knew) details of these "joint ventures"; I'd guess corporate takeovers were involved. Both knives also bear the I-XL imprint.
A Schrade Wostenholm stag canoe:
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A Rodgers Wostenholm gunboat canoe from 1978:
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- GT
 
Nice find and a great price! I like Sheffield knives and have several of his knives. Here are three that I have pictures of right now:


 
Blake the Blade said:
Infact Genovich if you click on the first of my photos above you should access a few more shots of the lovely Lewes including one or two of yours truly which, hopefully, will not spoil your enjoyment of the architecture too much. :p
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Thanks! I just love the architecture. Interesting that in the one shot, your taller then the first floor of the building:D

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Will Power said:
Mark When somebody doesn't know and asks for clarification it's never ignorance in my book, it's a love of learning:thumbup::thumbup: Ignorance is presenting to understand something when you don't and perpetuating misinformation :grumpy: As far as I understand it, a Sleeveboard type knife is a pattern with the top bolster noticeably wider than the bottom one (kind of bomb or torpedo shaped) usually single-spring and always with a blade at each end. So named, due to a kind of contraption that ironing-boards sometimes had attached to them for the ironing of sleeves on shirts. Hope this is correct and it helps. And yes, it's a fine small knife.:thumbup: England may have produced a mass of knives in the past but quality ones seem rather scarce. In my experience at least.

Thanks, Will
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Many thanks Will I appreciate that and now fully understand the term 'sleeveboard' when applied to knives such as yours. I know the contraption of which you speak and yes that would make perfect sense. Thanks for sharing your knowledge friend. :) :thumbup:
 
5K Qs said:
Mark, you certainly have a fine example there! :thumbup::thumbup:

I have no "pure" Wostenholm knives, but I have a couple of knives whose tang stamps carry both the Wostenholm name and the name of another maker (Schrade in one case, Rodgers in the other). I must admit that I don't remember (or possibly never knew) details of these "joint ventures"; I'd guess corporate takeovers were involved. Both knives also bear the I-XL imprint.
A Schrade Wostenholm stag canoe:
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A Rodgers Wostenholm gunboat canoe from 1978:
sozCGlf.jpg


- GT
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Very nice Knives GT. I did wonder about all this and have heard the name Wostenholm used in connection with the Rodgers company before. I wonder was the Wostenholm name itself subsumed by another company? Many thanks for sharing. :)
 
Gevonovich said:
Thanks! I just love the architecture. Interesting that in the one shot, your taller then the first floor of the building:D

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That is a beautiful knife Gevonovich, one of the nicest I've seen. Yes isn't that a great timber framed building, people must have been so much smaller in the days when it was first built. At just over 5'8 I would have been something of a giant. Thank you very much for your interest, glad you enjoyed the photos. :thumbup:
 
Some lovely examples shown on this thread. Amazing infact.
A few more ...
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I have a very difficult time capturing knives in images. I tried to get out when the light was right and spend some time getting quality pics but was too busy at work for that.




Best I could do with the time I had.

Chris
 
Chris Montgomery said:
I have a very difficult time capturing knives in images. I tried to get out when the light was right and spend some time getting quality pics but was too busy at work for that.




Best I could do with the time I had.

Chris
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Thanks Chris great photos of a lovely little knife. Can see why your cutler friend saw this as a complicated one to produce. There really is a lot going on within a small package, and all the nicer for it I reckon. Like the bolsterless stag and the filed liners a lot. Looks like it's served someone well in a previous life too but remains usable. Wostenholm quality. Many thanks. :thumbup:
 
Mark, very nice Wostenholm for your first one, they are very good knife from a maker with a rich history.

Very nice examples being posted, here are a few that I own,

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