Knife History

[Jak3]

Thank you all so much!

 

[JakeMakes]

Wow! A paper on knives, for school? Why does this sound so familiar to me?

I'm 16 as well. I feel like we should know each other or something.

 

[Jak3]

That's awesome, we should, JakeMakes!

 

[supratentorial]

Discussion about locks came up in another topic and I thought you might like to also consider using patent documents as another primary source.

For example, here's the traditional liner lock patent published in 1906
https://www.google.com/patents/US825093
This style is still used today on some traditional knives.

Michael Walker modified it and his "Walker liner lock" is very popular on modern knives today.
https://www.google.com/patents/US4896424

 

[supratentorial]

Also you might find this post by Sal interesting... https://www.spyderco.com/forumII/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1478&p=1478