Discussion on knife patterns!

This is an amazing project, and one I look forward to reading again and again.

When it gets big enough, (I will not say "finished" because there is always more information out there, I would like to propose to see if I can download it and turn it into a PDF so that it can be easily printed (with waynorth's permission, of course).

If it works out, that way all the forumites could peruse it on paper, the folksy way.

Again, this depends on what waynorth and any other contributors would have to say. It is their work.
 
Thanks, Shaldag. It's to early to tell where this is going, but I won't forget your kind offer!
 
What a great thread Charlie ! Thank you for the work that is going into it, and the lessons that are being taught. I think Ken suggested it, but is there any way to put dimensions in the scans. Thanks again, I look forward to each new post !
 
What am I missing here, is it just me and my computer? :D I'm looking for pictures and not finding any.

Anyway, I'll toss this in for your consideration, what I would call a harness knife:

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I'm thinking the scales are celluloid but there is little if any shrinkage. The tang is stamped Imperial, Prov. R.I. It's 3-3/8" closed.
 
Hmmm, not sure that Charlie's familiar with harness jacks... Let's see...;) :p
 
Now that looks very promising, I wil definitely make a hard copy of it so I have something to read at night.

Thanks a lot for the tremendous amount of work you are putting into the pattern list.

peter
 
Coldwood said:
What am I missing here, is it just me and my computer? :D I'm looking for pictures and not finding any.

Anyway, I'll toss this in for your consideration, what I would call a harness knife:

30jo20l.jpg


I'm thinking the scales are celluloid but there is little if any shrinkage. The tang is stamped Imperial, Prov. R.I. It's 3-3/8" closed.
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Coldwood, you have a Cattle knife with a punch. Looks like a clip master blade, and a spey secondary blade. I agree, your handles look like celluloid.
A Harness Jack is a Jack knife, with a punch as a secondary blade.
The pattern thread, in its imperfect but growing form, is a "sticky" up near the top of this "Traditional" forum. Please don't post anything there, as we are working on it, but feel free to comment when you get back to THIS thread!!

OOPS! You beat me to it! Good show!
 
Waynorth, thanks for the info on my knife. It doesn't show well in the picture, but the handles are really very pretty, the light moves around in them as I change the angle.

The sticky is great, I'm looking forward to going there often, a great learning resource.
 
Charlie, what's the story on the teardrop at far right that looks like a tiger got a hold of it. Is it a newer knife?
 
A grizzled old outbacker named Oupa, sitting in a serious drought in Australia, replaced the flawed handles with orange micarta (G-10?), and engraved everything with his heat induced nightmares! I assume the Vol Orange caught your eye!!?? It's pretty ummm . . . cool, in a fiery sort of way.
 
Almost looks like one of those newfangled knives you'd see in a non-traditional forum...you having a change of heart/interest my friend?
 
Nope. The knife needed fixing, and I commissioned the artist to follow his heart. It's an arty knife that's usable and not expensive. I have many artists in my family, so am prone to indulging their whimsical ways.
 
I made a few edits and additions to the pattern sticky, with more to come, so I thought I'd bring this thread back up so people can comment if they wish.
Sorry for the slow progress, but I am treading carefully, because we want this to be a reliable/permanent feature.
 
Thanks very much for the hard work that you have invested in this educational project. It is greatly appreciated.
 
This is on topic but maybe off topic (and I can't remember if I've asked/posted this before), but I would love to see all of the different types of jigging patterns. This may be better suited for a separate thread...your call blues and gus. But everytime I think I have seen every type of jigged bone there is, another one pops up that is new to me. I think that a side by side comparison of all of them would be very helpful (at least to me).
 
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