Got my first Queen Cutlery knife - and I´m really impressed

Beauty! Looks like the Camillus 72, except your Queen is the splitback spring. Bet she rides nice in the pocket.
 
That looks like another good addition Andi.

How is the 'lock-up'? I find my Queen's back spring a bit weak.

Also, that spacers not supposed to be like that, right??
 
Well... the spring is really ok. I like its tension. Not too weak and not too strong.

It´s good to see you again, Rolf-Dieter :)

About the steel I gonna give tomorrow a short report, when I sharpen and strop it :D
The split backspring is completely new to me - though I´ve alread seen it here on the forums. I´m interessted in how it will work during time and getting weaker. The knife came new ootb. There were no marks of use or whatever. Even the factory grind was there (which isn´t the sharpest) and it seems to have pretty low angle on it. So I gonna reprofile it again.
 
i have one of their tiny toothpicks. it took some work to sharpen it. i thought it was because of unusual blade geometry and lack of skill on my part. but reading some entries here i am relieved to find that its not entirely my fault!

nice knife, by the way!
 
I found the diamond stones on the DMT Aligner worked very well on Queen's D2. Gets it sharp to shave hair off the back of your arm just like that, no pressure. This steel most certainly retains the sharpness better than carbon or the usual stainless in Traditionals. I used to dislike D2 as I found it really tough to sharpen up decently, diamond seems to be the route. Some Queens do come quite sharp (not so many though...) and naturally, these are easier to maintain.

According to Levine, a Split Back Whittler is something very different and actually rare. These were French or English c18th knives that had a spring that was itself split, half way along, these often broke-not surprisingly. Whittler knives, he states, are two spring knives either tapered (to accomodate the two blades on each spring at the widest point, Master on the narrowest) such as Böker uses. Or a Whittler with a spacer between the two springs as here with Queen or RR uses on their Whittlers. Taper Spring Whittler/ Spacer Back Whittler? :D Whittler.:thumbup:

Thanks, Will
 
I've got a medium Stockman with those scales, has anyone gotten their hands on a Queen knife since the company was bought out?
 
Thats a beauty Andi-
I'm Waynorth on this, once its sharp it stays sharp.
 
Congrats on the new knife Andi. Despite their shortcomings Queen remains my favorite manufacturer. Oddly enough I don't own a single Queen with D2 blades.

Does anyone know if the Daniels family intends to continue the Heritage Series knives?

- Christian
 
F&F looks on the money. I believe when you get a Queen that's done right you should try your best to hang on to it, they can make some exceptional knives. Some might want to disagree, but I believe the QC might be improving slightly, from that of several years ago.
 
I have been blessed with great fortune in the dozen or so Queens I've received. Every one bought sight-unseen off the net, and only one semi-clunker, which was actually a Queen City Cutlery Co. branded teardrop jack. It had uneven and butter knife dull edges, and a poorly cut nail nick. But all the others have been beautiful, and most of them were even sharp. Their D2 really is great stuff, probably the best available in a factory traditional. I prefer it even to S&M's ATS-34 in the File & Wire series, which is saying a lot!
 
Congrats Andi! I have the same pattern in birds eye maple and really like it. Unlike some of my Queen knives, it came sharp enough to do some work and that's always been good for me.
Cheers,
Griff
 
Hey andi, really beautiful knife. Do you mind taking a picture of how thin is the grind behind the edge on the small blades??
Thank you, I'm looking for another whittling option and on my #62 GEC had to grind the sides quite a bit to leave them like I wanted to.
Mateo
 
I have that one in cocobolo, and that d2 is great. It was slow going for me to sharpen, the grind came pretty uneven, but once I fixed that, I have nothing to complain about. Just a beautiful pocketknife, and an interesting pattern. Enjoy!
 
An excellent knife

I use the DMT Aligner, fron E course thru to E Fine
Then strop
Very sharp and holds well
Keep stropping after use so there is no need to resharpen

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Thanks for the kind words again, fellows. :)

Well - I just took a little time to sharpen this knife. I used my standart 320 grit stone and then three finer stones until I come down to leather strop. The D2 performed very great without any problem. I sharpened every blade at an angle of 20° per side and everything is fine. The three blades are razorsharp now. I was surprised that the D2 was so easy to sharpen. I feared, it would take a long time and a lot of material loss. But it just works great.

(Sorry - I didn´t take some "Before"-pics, but here´s the result)

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I was a little worried, because I read all the stories here about the hardness of that steel and that it (can be) impossible to sharpen. The blades are as sharp as any other of my pocket knives.
 
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