Gun show restraint, and who was the maker of this half whittler??

[CUTS LIKE A KRIS]

Well tomorrow marks another turn around the sun for me and wouldn't you know it, a gun show was in town. (Well the Edmonton Gun Show was in another city, but I digress). Seeing as yesterday my kids had a princess party, we went today.

There were a lot of temptations, especially with my old friend Ed Storch's table full of custom knives! And true to form, just like he did to my 8 year old brother around 25 years ago, Ed addressed my kids as equals and passed his newly forged gladius to my 9 year old daughter just after asking if she wanted to hold it! Didn't ask me, or ask my permission, and I loved it! A true gentleman, who has always treated the kids I bring as equal people, and not as liabilities or nothing's as most do!

There was also a maker I've never met with a table full of hunters/fighters/kitchen knives, seems like a nice guy, forges his own Damascus and knows his stuff. I've taken a picture of his business card as well as his card, a guy I don't think I want to loose track of! A nice handle!

So things are tight being newly single, but everybody needs some fun! There was a lot of eye candy besides the wonderful customs, and I didn't take nearly as many pictures as I could, with two wonderful children pulling me along😉, but we did stop long enough to get a couple of knives that caught our eye! And my sons knife was free! The benefits of multi-year relationships! He had this but, not for me:

My sons new wonder knife!! He's ready to take on the world now!! (He's six, it's cute!!)

My daughter now has two Girl Scout/guide knives now, perhaps a direction for her- they are useful knives! This one was coming home with me until she asked to see it and said she really liked it, especially the marlinspike! Oh I love that girl, have to cultivate her appreciation for the Marlinspike/punch (Magnum/22 GunPunch knife for Forum knife 2016!!! 😜 😏 ). As some of you may have noticed, I like punches almost as much as I like wharncliffes. By the way, this is the 9 year old lady with a mammoth Lloyd trapper, a Kukri, and a couple other knives as well. Should get her first one made this winter I'm hoping as well. She already asked how we can drop the tip down or if it's meant to be exposed- love the curiosity! William Rogers.... kind of a no brainer it was coming home.

Then there's Dads knives!! Because of the broken backspring I basically got the ?French Ivory? Knife 2for1 with the half whittler, mostly as a curiosity as I've never had a Made in Chechoslovakia knife before. It's too bad the spring broke, looks like the blades are well made, main bring well used, pen hardly or not used at all. Good walk and talk in the sharp scissors, and I really liked the bolsters. Oddly they should be too big for me but threaded and stepped is interesting on it.

I really liked the half whittler, it immediately caught my attention as very similar to my Boker Whittler, and much similar to the Forum knife- excepting for a secondary clip blade (yay!! No pen blade), instead of the sheepsfoot on this years knife. Well made, one pin has been set too deep into the wood do the wood has let go a bit, but two knives for $10 I can't really complain and I'm going to use it anyways, so I'm not too critical. It's a little bigger than my Boker and finished a bit differently (domed pins on Boker, radiused grind around frame on this one, but both look like the same type of wood and are even the same with light wood on one side and dark on another), so I'm not sure if Boker had a hand in it or not, but this is the only symbol it has, with "Rostfrei Solingen" on the obverse. ??"HF"?? It's a very well made single spring.

If anybody knows the mark on the half Whittler is be glad to hear, but reagardless I'm pretty happy, just wish a bit more time to look and take pics, but still want the show's to be fun for kids, and knives, beef jerky, cotton candy and dad time are the way to do that!!

Now time to go swimming!!

 

[MT Damascus]

Looks like a Hartkopf, they make excellent knives.

Kris

 

[Humppa]

Looks like a Hartkopf, they make excellent knives.

Kris

Yep... definitelly Friedrich Hartkopf. What Kris said - they make wonderful knives. The Half Whittler you got there is still in their production.
They are one of my favorite german cutleries.

 

[MTURBO]

Great pics and a great read! Thanks for posting.:thumbup:

 

[r redden]

Great looking pictures and even better story. Enjoy your time with your children it seems to slip away quickly my youngest will be 34 in December wow time flies.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Nice day, nice scores and as a bonus Ya got to spend time with the kids. I'd say it was a win win day.

 

[Will Power]

Interesting haul you brought in there. I like the Hartkopf and wouldn't say there's anything wrong with the pin setting, no worse than a lot of sink-hole pins GEC turns out, particularly on wooden scaled knives....

The other knife puzzles me a bit. It's the odd spelling of Czechoslovakia on the tang, why would they spell it in that way, Cechoslovakia?? They didn't use cyrillic alphabet there either so it can't be a transliteration fault. A curious and worthwhile knife though.

 

[glennbad]

That's a dandy half whittler there. Check the inside well to see if the pin is sticking out on the inside, that sometimes happens on knives.

 

[Craig Moore]

The guy with the table full of awesome blades is Jay West. He’s a custom knife maker from Spruce Grove. He does amazing work. Makes everything himself. (except Damascus) I believe he has a world class forger making damascus for him.

 

[kvaughn]

The guy with the table full of awesome blades is Jay West. He’s a custom knife maker from Spruce Grove. He does amazing work. Makes everything himself. (except Damascus) I believe he has a world class forger making damascus for him.

Just say no to necroposting.--You do know this thread is 3 years old?--KV

 

[Craig Moore]

Just say no to necroposting.--You do know this thread is 3 years old?--KV

Haha. Sorry. Didnt realize the date. My reply still stands though.

 

[tongueriver]

Bizarre thread, so I might as well throw this in. The term "half whittler" was an invention by CASE marketing people. There is no such thing as a half whittler; it is physically impossible if you accept traditional definitions of a whittler. We must accept the CASE version, I suppose, as a sort of trademark. Otherwise, all such knives are actually pen knives, if we accept traditional definitions of a pen knife.

 

[kvaughn]

Thinking along those lines, I think I have a Fightn' Rooster half stockman but Levine calls it a double ended jack.--KV

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

Ok now that its been resurrected, and all. Thinking along those lines, does that make this a 1/3 stockman?

 

[PaulS.]

I have a few half trappers.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Congrats on the find, that's a beautiful knife that looks like a dandy user.

 

[Will Power]

It's true that knife terminology is impure, manufacturers often come up with marketing names that take on, Half Whittler and Half Congress being examples when both could be Pen types. But, some are two spring so that rules them out from the Pen category, in my book at least ... Pedantically speaking, it should be Two Thirds Whittler

 

[ISKRA]

Interesting haul you brought in there. I like the Hartkopf and wouldn't say there's anything wrong with the pin setting, no worse than a lot of sink-hole pins GEC turns out, particularly on wooden scaled knives....

The other knife puzzles me a bit. It's the odd spelling of Czechoslovakia on the tang, why would they spell it in that way, Cechoslovakia?? They didn't use cyrillic alphabet there either so it can't be a transliteration fault. A curious and worthwhile knife though.

Well, it says Čechoslovakia. No connection to Ciryllic, the Czechs basically invented the haček (the little upside down roof on top of letters such as č, š or ž). It really doesn't make much sense using it in English, but I guess they thought it's going to be understandable either way. It's a nice knife, too bad the spring is broken ... I doubt it's a Mikov though, or?

 

[Jack Black]

Haha. Sorry. Didnt realize the date. My reply still stands though.

Still necroposting. Please read the sub-forum guidelines

Bizarre thread, so I might as well throw this in. The term "half whittler" was an invention by CASE marketing people. There is no such thing as a half whittler; it is physically impossible if you accept traditional definitions of a whittler. We must accept the CASE version, I suppose, as a sort of trademark. Otherwise, all such knives are actually pen knives, if we accept traditional definitions of a pen knife.

Well said Sometimes the knife being referred to is a Wharncliffe Knife, which should be properly described in my opinion, (as per all knife patterns). Likewise, there is no such thing as a 'Half Congress', a Congress pattern can have 2, 3, or 4 blades (and up to 8), so a 2-blade Congress is still a Congress.

It's true that knife terminology is impure, manufacturers often come up with marketing names that take on, Half Whittler and Half Congress being examples when both could be Pen types. But, some are two spring so that rules them out from the Pen category, in my book at least ... Pedantically speaking, it should be Two Thirds Whittler

There are two spring Penknives Will, an obvious example being a Three-blade Penknife

In terms of pattern descriptions, Levine still sets the standard I think, and not all the editions of his Guide to Knives are expensive. Indeed some may be viewed online for free

 

[Will Power]

Three blade Penknife sounds like a Whittler to me or a Stockman or could it be a 3/4 Congress

Wait till the Americans make a Lambfoot....they might call it a Half Sheffield Half Nelson