Grandfather's & Other Inherited Knives

I don't have any other decent photos. I'm not great at the macro photography as you can see. If there's interest I'll take some photos and post a bit of my father's pretty extraordinary life...
 
lambertiana said:
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My father in law has this exact knife, although it has been mostly sharpened away (maybe 50% left). He asked me to sharpen it for him last year. Took a wicked edge. It is the only knife I have ever handled that would make a ringing sound when tapped or even when I rubbed the blade with my finger nail. Not sure if that is good, but it was interesting.
 
wintermute said:
I don't have any other decent photos. I'm not great at the macro photography as you can see. If there's interest I'll take some photos and post a bit of my father's pretty extraordinary life...
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I'm interested to be sure!. :)
 
I'm interested too. I'm glad to see this thread still going.
The stories are the best part of it.
 
Here are a few that were my grandfathers, I have a few others but they are at my parents home. As you can see he used them....the two bottom ones are in like new condition, I'm sure my Dad gave them to him, the stag handled is a kissing crane copperhead (no logo on shield, but tang stamped with the two kissing cranes), and the bone is a case texas jack (1975). He was from the generation that he didn't need a new knife until his old one was used up.....wouldn't we be in a lot better shape as a country if we still thought that way, I know I'm sure starting to, the older I get the more I appreciate his and my parents generation. The larger locking blade is a german eye, I can remember him using it a lot when I was in my pre-teen and early teens (I'm 47 now). He used it on the farm for everything from cleaning game, cutting rope, cleaning the chicken that he had just snapped it's neck (that was to be Sunday dinner), to slicing a fresh turnip in the garden for a taste.

One I could use your help on has a bull on the sheild and was made in germany, all I can make out on the tang is germany...do you know the brand on this one, main blade is broken, but didn't stop him from using the other two and it's razor sharp just like the german eye lock blade he used too. Thanks for any help you can give me on the Bull one, don't know if it's an older german bull, but I don't recall thier shield or bull looking like that?
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nice heirlooms twodogs. i guess i need to take some picks of my grandpa's knives. he was a Schrade man. every knife i got of his is a Schrade. maybe that's why i like Schrades so much.
 
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