Displaying Knives by hanging them from their bails

[North Shore]

I've seen some people store/display their knives from a peg board directly from their bails, anything wrong with that? Gravity pulling down on the knives overtime cause things to loosen? I have a number of knives I'm proud of from old SAKs to Scout/Camp patterns was just wanting people to weigh in on this.

 

[afishhunter]

Hanging by the bails should not cause anything to loosen up from gravity, short term or long term.

 

[glennbad]

My recollection is seeing scouts for as many years as I can remember, especially from the early days of scouting, with those scout knives hanging on their belts from bails. I imagine those knives were swinging around and getting twisted. If the bails are peened on correctly, I don't see any harm at all, and I certainly wouldn't think any harm from gravity, unless the knife weighed 10 pounds

 

[Lapedog]

Just gravity causing the weight of the knife to warp and damage the bail is unlikely unless the bail is defective. The bail is meant to be potentially used to hang the knife from for example a dummy cord.

 

[afishhunter]

My recollection is seeing scouts for as many years as I can remember, especially from the early days of scouting, with those scout knives hanging on their belts from bails. I imagine those knives were swinging around and getting twisted. If the bails are peened on correctly, I don't see any harm at all, and I certainly wouldn't think any harm from gravity, unless the knife weighed 10 pounds

From what I remember of those Scout Knives back in the 1960's and 1970's (of which I have a couple examples in my collection) you could daRn near pull the Den/Troop Leader's full size station wagon out of an axle deep mud pit with those bails.

 

[North Shore]

Anyone have any cool display methods for old camp/scouts? picture examples?

 

[Jack Black]

 

[edbeau]

That is a great picture, Jack.

 

[jackknife]

Wow, I was glancing over the forum in a hurry, and I thought I misread the title. Wondered why do you hate your pocket knife so much!!!

I'm glad the mistake was mine!

Us seniors don't have the eye sight we used to.

 

[Hickory n steel]

They don't weigh enough for that.

Btw great picture there jack, if anyone was wondering why bails exist that picture makes it perfectly clear.

 

[AndreLinoge]

They don't weigh enough for that.

Btw great picture there jack, if anyone was wondering why bails exist that picture makes it perfectly clear.

Heck yea, can you imagine if that bar popped out and caught that dude in the head?


Oh, bails.
Gotcha.

 

[afishhunter]

Heck yea, can you imagine if that bar popped out and caught that dude in the head?

Or even worse: if that bar slipped out and ... well ... did you notice that deck valve right behind them?
Can you say "broken back" or possibly "broken neck"?

 

[edbeau]

I have these two hanging from the bails and they seem to be okay. I took them down for the picture.

 

[jc57]

I keep a Victorinox Farmer hanging on a hook in the kitchen by the little split ring that comes on it. Not for display, but for convenience when I need the tools on it, and to prevent me from grabbing a kitchen knife for utility cutting.