Photos For the love of Lockbacks! (Traditionals only)

[JohnDF]

back-to-back! but, i kinda have to show these ....

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gec 72 and 42.

Time has added to their beauty.

 

[dc50]

 

[Elgatodeacero]

when i think lockback knife, its always a Buck 110.

what a great tool and such a good value. might as well have the best!

 

[R.c.s]

 

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[Frankki]

My current selection of lockbacks from the 1970s and 1980s. That's enough traditional lockback hunters there to last me a lifetime already. But I think there is still room for a nice Gerber and a Schrade there.

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

I've said it before, but I'll go ahead and say it again, I sure wish Kershaw would go back to their roots. A reissue of those Lockbacks in modern steels would be really cool.

 

[Frankki]

I've said it before, but I'll go ahead and say it again, I sure wish Kershaw would go back to their roots. A reissue of those Lockbacks in modern steels would be really cool.

Yes, AUS8 was probably quite the hot stuff 40 years ago, same as 440C which many folks still like a lot - myself included. But an updated steel would be mandatory today, as the knife afis now would see AUS8 as extremely pedestrian. Mind you, I don't think Kershaw will be bringing back the Folding Field anytime soon - the 1050 was in the lineup for thirty years and it was the knife everybody wanted but few bought. When I was was a kid in the eighties, I remember lusting after one - no way to afford one, ever! Only got mine this year, one of the longest waits I've ever experienced.

 

[Frankki]

But damn, they are just so pretty!

 

[meako]

Still with factory edge but storage corrosion.
Nothing that cant be sorted out.
Style and Substance.

 

[edbeau]

Meako, All yellow Delrin ones were made in 1976.

 

[edbeau]

My latest lockback is a Imperial Schrade Frontier Diamondbrite P-IV. This knife was made by Camillus for Schrade in 1982. It is all stainless except for the inlays. I have a few other MAC ones.

 

[meako]

76...i was in 6th grade....I can forgive the corrosion.
Thanks for the info edbeau.

 

[edbeau]

http://collectors-of-schrades-r.us/frontiers/index.htm for information on Frontiers.

 

[JOELSM]

Just scoured this entire thread for the first time. It has everything; classic working grade, beautiful “pocket jewelry”, rare collectibles...great thread. Here’s a few of mine that hopefully add to conversation.

Rough Rider - don’t know the model. Impulse buy during a job assignment.

GEC Wall Street in stag.

GEC 72 Grizzly Cut

 

[dc50]

The little standby Buck 112

 

[JOELSM]

AGR Lock Back Folding Hunter

AGR Gunstock and Arkansas Hunter

Not perfect, but pretty good for a production knife

AGR LARGE Folding Hunter

AGR Sunfish (I call it The Kraken)

And this....