"Give me your tired, your poor," your broken blades...

[Blues]

Mack, I'm still waiting for my royalty check...

(Hey, times are hard and it's the holidays...)

 

[Gevonovich]

Thank you, Jack I have a whole shelf of tired and broken, I have a soft spot for them

 

[screened porch]

I bought it because it's a Robeson, and because it's ebony. It's a Robeson all right, 1922-39. It can't be ebony, though, can it, the way it's cracked across the "grain". Anyway, someone cared enough about it to scratch his name in the handle, so I'll look after it for him.

 

[chouse]

Case Tested

 

[Gevonovich]

chouse
You have some wonderful old beauties!! What is the back handle made of on the Case Tested Saddlehorn?

 

[Mack]

Mack, I'm still waiting for my royalty check...

(Hey, times are hard and it's the holidays...)

That is too funny. They say that great minds think alike so it doesn't surprise me that minds like ours would as well.

I'm glad I started this one. There are a lot of beauties out there that aren't quite perfect.

 

[chouse]

chouse
You have some wonderful old beauties!! What is the back handle made of on the Case Tested Saddlehorn?

Looks like some kind of particle board or fiberboard. Fubar board!
Wish I had some to put on this old Ka Bar!!

 

[TLARbb]

chouse
You have some wonderful old beauties!! What is the back handle made of on the Case Tested Saddlehorn?

Looks like OSB (Oriented strand board), a product used in furniture, roof decking, subflooring, shelving, sheathing, and apparently knife covers.

Ed J

 

[screened porch]

Looks like some kind of particle board or fiberboard. Fubar board!
Wish I had some to put on this old Ka Bar!!

Try epoxy putty.

 

[Gevonovich]

Thanks for the info guys. I have always wondered how the epoxy repair was done. I have seen some work so well done it was difficult to see at first glance.

 

[C Ben Susrool]

I bought it because it's a Robeson, and because it's ebony. It's a Robeson all right, 1922-39. It can't be ebony, though, can it, the way it's cracked across the "grain". Anyway, someone cared enough about it to scratch his name in the handle, so I'll look after it for him.

An inspiration to me.

 

[glennbad]

Nothing sexy about this Schrade Cut Co., but I loved the ebony and the bolsters.

 

[Mack]

Nothing sexy about this Schrade Cut Co., but I loved the ebony and the bolsters.

Looks pretty darned sexy to me. I absolutely love the way ebony ages.