Heavy Metal

[tiguy7]

View attachment 1233677 Here is a James Bond tie clip. It's Japanese and has a Sterling cover.

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks for the info. And the knife, of course!

A pleasure

Steel blades, aluminum handles:

I doubt we'll see many fleams:

An odd little thing:

A Case below and a Bertram above:

and now reversed:

An all metal Buck 510 Classic II (425M steel blade, engraved aluminum covers):

A Michael Manrow jack:

Empire above, Rogers below:

C.F. Wolfertz jack:

- Stuart

Nice Gerbers Stuart Aren't those castrators rather than fleams I'd forgotten that the Sheldon knife also sometimes came with a Spearpoint, thanks for the reminder

By chance, I have an all-metal fleam on my kitchen table, waiting for some attention. Looks like someone used it for opening a tin-can!

View attachment 1233677 Here is a James Bond tie clip. It's Japanese and has a Sterling cover.

Very cool

How about these?!

 

[Jack Black]

 

[Hickory n steel]

pocket clip! You cant post those here

I kid It is kinda neat to see original traditional knives with features that prove there are exceptions to the rule. There is a knife I've seen posted here,somewhere in the old knives thread I think, that has a half moon cut out in the blade to use a thumb to one hand open. Cant remember the person who has it,but I smile every time I see it because of its "modern" feature

And yet there are no modern folders this small
Personally I prefer to think that those modern folders have the same kind of clip, they're just using them wrong and or they're just too big for any tie I've ever seen

 

[Duckdog]

Nice Gerbers Stuart Aren't those castrators rather than fleams I'd forgotten that the Sheldon knife also sometimes came with a Spearpoint, thanks for the reminder

Thanks, Jack, and you are correct regarding the castrator nomenclature (late night posting poses many problems). Andrew Levine, in his 1985 Guide to Kinives and Their Values, refers to the small two-bladed version as a "rooster nutter" with its castrating blade and beak-like hook blade used mainly" for caponing chicks, but also used on cattle and hogs." Some castrators have only the beaked hook blade. Fleams, used for bleeding animals, have the thin flat blades, as does your example, similar to the "feeler gauges" we used to use for gapping valves, points, and spark plugs on our vehicles.

I do like the cutlery cuff links.

- Stuart

 

[5K Qs]

Here's a Marbles version of the ruler knife called Handyman's Helper II:


Here's a Marbles version of the iconic "demo" knife:


And here's an all-metal melon tester from Rough Rider:


- GT

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks, Jack, and you are correct regarding the castrator nomenclature (late night posting poses many problems). Andrew Levine, in his 1985 Guide to Kinives and Their Values, refers to the small two-bladed version as a "rooster nutter" with its castrating blade and beak-like hook blade used mainly" for caponing chicks, but also used on cattle and hogs." Some castrators have only the beaked hook blade. Fleams, used for bleeding animals, have the thin flat blades, as does your example, similar to the "feeler gauges" we used to use for gapping valves, points, and spark plugs on our vehicles.

I do like the cutlery cuff links.

- Stuart

Thanks Stuart, I thought it was a "Nutter", but with my memory these days, I'm never sure! I have quite a nice Fleam, but it's all metal Funnily enough, when a pal of mine came round for coffee on Friday, he picked up the brass Fleam and said the same thing about Feeler Gauges. I was an apprentice mechanic, and always had some in my pocket, but I'm not sure they're used much now

Thank you my friend

Here's a Marbles version of the ruler knife called Handyman's Helper II:
View attachment 1234210

Here's a Marbles version of the iconic "demo" knife:
View attachment 1234212

And here's an all-metal melon tester from Rough Rider:
View attachment 1234213

- GT

Cool GT, I think I have one of those Handyman's Helpers somewhere

 

[tiguy7]

A pleasure



Nice Gerbers Stuart Aren't those castrators rather than fleams I'd forgotten that the Sheldon knife also sometimes came with a Spearpoint, thanks for the reminder

By chance, I have an all-metal fleam on my kitchen table, waiting for some attention. Looks like someone used it for opening a tin-can!

Very cool

How about these?!

The cuff links are great. I don’t often wear long sleeves, but if I wore French cuffs, I would look for some of those.

 

[5K Qs]

...
Cool GT, I think I have one of those Handyman's Helpers somewhere

Thanks, Jack.

Here are a couple of Imperial jacks that didn't begin life as all-metal knives, but by the time I got them, their celluloid "skins" had disappeared and they were naked metal:
Imperial "Silver Bullet" (that's my name for the knife):


Imperial Diamond Edge jack:


- GT

 

[Jack Black]

The cuff links are great. I don’t often wear long sleeves, but if I wore French cuffs, I would look for some of those.

Thanks, I probably have more sets of cuff-links than shirts I can wear them with these days I'm afraid

Thanks, Jack.

Here are a couple of Imperial jacks that didn't begin life as all-metal knives, but by the time I got them, their celluloid "skins" had disappeared and they were naked metal:
Imperial "Silver Bullet" (that's my name for the knife):
View attachment 1234435

Imperial Diamond Edge jack:
View attachment 1234436

- GT

Those knives are always only a sliver away from all-metal aren't they? I've had a few Richards knives that left the factory without skins though

 

[Chui]

......berlimey, Jack Black you do have one or two, eh

What a great thread, nice one Alan joeradza

Don't know about heavy metal..........think I've some light somewhere (my heavy metal wouldn't be allowed on here )

 

[joeradza]

Chui Thanks Paul. Every time someone posts one I think “I’ve got or had that one.”

 

[5K Qs]

Here's an all-metal multiplication table knife (that phrase is a little ambiguous ); thanks, Mark:


And an all-metal ring opener; thanks, Jack:


- GT

 

[Navallas]

 

[specgrade]

 

[T. Erdelyi]

A little vintage Monday metal.

 

[Jack Black]

A little vintage Monday metal.

Great to see you here Ted Hope you're doing OK

 

[Navallas]

 

[joeradza]

Interesting blade treatment. I’ve never seen those. Please tell me more.

 

[Navallas]

These two were etched by Spanish engraver Antonio Montejano in a limited run of only 50 pieces each. They were made available through the "Foro de Armas Blancas", Spain's most popular blade forum, a few years ago. It's pretty hard to capture the 3D quality of the etchings with my limited photography skills, but they are truly a work of art.
Best,
Louis.