John Watts Easifold Sheffield/W. German flip it added

Stich2442

Stich2442

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I've had this little folder for about 30 years, before that it was my mothers, I don't know much about it but I thought I would share it with all of you. It hangs out in my wallet, I remember carrying it in my pocket in high school. It is all stainless construction, it's a cool little knife.

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Pete! Thank you showing it off. I had such a knife as a kid, but I disappeared at some time, couldn´t find it somehow. The function is pretty simple, but just great.

Brought back some memories from my childhood.
 
I remember seeing this design when I was a kid. They usually had some kind of advertising for a hardware store, paint company, or something on them. Usually small, and we kids loved them for the novelty of the design. Then everyone mada big deal out of the knife maker, Ted Dowel I think, when he had one at the knife show, and it got dubbed the funny folder. I got a bit of a kick out of that, as we kids just thought of them as the cheap metal advertising knife many years earlier.

With the open design, and easy to use action, I would think they would be a good outdoorsmans knife if scaled up in size, like Dowel did. But then you'd still have a single bladed knife, so why not use a sheath knife?

They are a nice old time novelty though. Unusual and interesting. Kind of like a Flip It.

Carl.
 
Carl, I also have a flip-it knife from sometime around maybe 1980-82ish, I thought that was the coolest, when the folks got that on a trip somewhere.
 
Flip it's also were huge in advertising. I don't know if I ever saw a Flip It that didn't have a business logo or location souvenir marking on it. If you get one of the really old ones that had a carbon steel blade, it would actually cut very well.
 
No advertising on my flip-it or my easifold. My flip-it is black with a black coated blade.
 
That is cool. Thank you for posting it. Reminds me of a Christy with an extra twist. ;)
 
The Christy knives are cool, they are still around, the replaceable blade is a cool concept, I've never owned one.
 
jackknife said:
WOW!

You have the tactical Flip It! I'm impressed!:eek:

:D
Carl.
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That is why I didn't post a pic, it kind of looks tactical, but it's about 30 years old and when I was 10 it seemed super cool, I will put a pic up in the A.M. hopefully it will not offend :-)
 
Nice photography. I wish I could take such nice pics. What kind of camera are you using to get such nice close ups? Nice knife, and in such pristine condition. Now all you have to do is grind some saw teeth in the blade spine, and engrave "Death Dealer" or something in it and you'll have the perfect tactical Flip It!

Just kidding!:D

Carl.
 
That's funny Carl, I think when I was a kid I thought of it as a commando or secret agent type of knife :-) I was 8 or 10.
Thanks for the compliment on my pics, I don't have a camera, just my cell phone.
Pete
 
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