Few fruits of four forays.

[screened porch]

They seem a little thin on the ground lately, and maybe I'm restraining myself better, but here are my latest finds:
Schrade stockman from an antique mall, $15. Just a little grinding needed on the main tip.
Anonymous nickel-plated jack, 25 cents at an estate sale.
Camco cattle knife, $6 at an antique mall (sorry about the varnish; I'm going right back to oil). I know it was a bargain brand, but except for the shrunken plastic handle covers it isn't obvious what corners they cut. The chrome has failed on the main blade in that ripply way chrome sometimes does.
The last two are from another antique mall.
Lovely old imperial cattle knife (same blades as Camco above) with pinned shield.
Imperial Diamond edge. This only caught my eye because it said "$4.00 Firm" on it. Worst built knife I've ever tinkered with, and yet it's still here. Hollow rivets holding it together under the pop-off covers.

 

[Gevonovich]

Nice haul, Screened porch. Its always sweet to find some new ones to get the juices flowing. Thanks for sharing them with us

 

[mr_badexample]

Nice haul. I like the cattle knives.

 

[CoffeeCat2112]

I like the looks of that Imperial. :thumbup:

 

[screened porch]

Thanks, guys. I'm just discovering cattle knives, and liking them. The Imperial one is nice and compact, yet solid. That one was $5, by the way. The Diamond edge Imp is a scout knife.
Here's another pic showing the Imp's other blades, hope you can see the swedge; and some gasket-like things that fell out of the D.E. If they were meant to keep lint from accumulating under the covers, they failed.

 

[glennbad]

Those things that fell out of the DE are all that is left of the wrap around cell sheet covers...

Here is a flyer from Larry's site that shows the line, and what your knife used to look like... pattern 857DE

http://www.collectors-of-schrades-r.us/FLYERS/IMPERIALS/knives/Pre-1980/pages/DE79-1.htm

 

[screened porch]

Thanks for the info and the link. The handles are so shiny, I didn't even think of the covers being missing.

 

[glennbad]

That steel will still get good and sharp. Still plenty of life left in it!

 

[screened porch]

That steel will still get good and sharp. Still plenty of life left in it!

It's very hard steel- I had to rough it in with my ceramic tile-shaping stone.

 

[screened porch]

I'm not, but when I go in to edit, the

is still there.

 

[Peregrin]

I'm not, but when I go in to edit, the

is still there.

I'm seeing one from 5/5 and one from yesterday 5/6.

 

[pertinux]

Seeing photographs:

I'm not, but when I go in to edit, the

is still there.

There is one picture each in the two following quoted posts. Can you see them now, quoted?

However, the "edit" notation indicates you added "a couple more pix"-- I'm seeing just the ones above.

~ P.

 

[screened porch]

Thanks, P and P.
It is just those two. I was either miscounting or mistyping when I indicated otherwise.
I've been having connectivity issues that were causing some photos of mine, and as it turned out, others', not to appear. Seems like I'm all better now. And while I was crawling among the wires, I found my missing Camillus scout knife, so happy day.

 

[Jack Black]

Nice Jer :thumbup: