Gum Fuddy?

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Strawboss37

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I’ve seen Case’s rough black handle material referred to often as “Hum Fuddy.” While I understand the material originally was a substitute for handle materials in short supply during World War II, I’ve never been able to determine how the name “gum fuddy” came about, what it referred to and what the original Gum Fuddy was made of. Anybody have any thoughts?
 
That is one mystery that I would like to know as well. There were a lot of guarded proprietary formulas around until the advent of Delrin. Qualitative analysis in a sophisticated chem lab on a bunch of those old knives would be great. Gutta percha, hard rubber, bakelite, gum fuddy, shrinkydink...
 
tongueriver said:
That is one mystery that I would like to know as well. There were a lot of guarded proprietary formulas around until the advent of Delrin. Qualitative analysis in a sophisticated chem lab on a bunch of those old knives would be great. Gutta percha, hard rubber, bakelite, gum fuddy, shrinkydink...
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Let's just pretend that the shrinkydink never happened. :p So many wonderful Camillus knives lost to that stuff. :mad::mad::mad:
 
I probably can't answer your question, but watched a review one time where someone thought that it may have been made to look like old military jeep tires? I think they have a certain cool factor to them, kind of like war year steel pennies! I picked up a trapper and really like it. The only thing, not a big deal, but I wish Case would have used the circle shield like on the old ones.
 
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