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I hope this is the right forum for this. I was given this knife as part of a large collection, and cannot open it. It is a chunk, almost 5" closed!, and over 8ozs, seems solidly built. No nail nick or sign of auto mechanism. Some strange looking reliefs in the liner. any help appreciated!

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Sigsog226 said:
I can't see the photos
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Yes thanks. i am trying to figure that out! i used to use photobucket for this, but not anymore so I am trying imgur. Should that work for links?
Thanks!

Got it, direct link is the one. But it's huge, are there guidelines for size in this forum?
 
Yeah it should. Never used it personally though. Gold membership lets me post directly from my phone.
 
Have you tried twisting or sliding the bolsters in one direction or another. There were a couple old makers who used such locks.
 
Yes, thanks. All manner of twists and pressing have been attempted, I even passed the knife around at a family gathering which included some savvy sportsmen of various ages. No success.
 
Did you try spinning one bolster around on the pivot? Those recesses look like pickups for a detent ball. Think of an action like a butterfly knife: a fixed pivot with 3 parts that move independently. Tough to explain but if you took all of the pins out of a Buck 110 (or similar) and left only the blade pivot pin in place...
 
Looks like a custom version of the old Gerber Paul knives.

Edit added: nope not a Paul knife. MT_Pokt’s pic of the Barry Wood design is what I was thinking.
 
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MT_Pokt said:
Did you try spinning one bolster around on the pivot? Those recesses look like pickups for a detent ball. Think of an action like a butterfly knife: a fixed pivot with 3 parts that move independently. Tough to explain but if you took all of the pins out of a Buck 110 (or similar) and left only the blade pivot pin in place...
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Yes, that's it!
I was almost there, but didn't exert enough force to separate the 2 sides. It is kinda stiff, but from the spine side, I can get the split started with a thumbnail and a push/twist sends the pair into butterfly knife mode. Minus the swinging action.
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unwisefool said:
Does the blade say Jndiana??
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Yeah, it's a J, but sometimes the J is used like an I in the Mediterranean, so in practice it's "Indiana Cutlery", there was also a "Virginia Cutlery" brand coming from Italy a few years back too. My understanding is that the Jndiana company wasn't a factory, but a wholesaler/exporter that had different models made for them by various Italian firms. They were around 60's - early 2000's, but have vanished.

The knife is from the mid 80's, early 90's most likely. The custom Barry Wood versions had gotten very hard to come by at a decent price back then, and a few different importers started coping the design, mainly importing from Japan and Italy. You might try the switchblade forum as the Jndiana company was heavily into the sale of them.
 
tltt said:
Yeah, it's a J, but sometimes the J is used like an I in the Mediterranean, so in practice it's "Indiana Cutlery", there was also a "Virginia Cutlery" brand coming from Italy a few years back too. My understanding is that the Jndiana company wasn't a factory, but a wholesaler/exporter that had different models made for them by various Italian firms. They were around 60's - early 2000's, but have vanished.

The knife is from the mid 80's, early 90's most likely. The custom Barry Wood versions had gotten very hard to come by at a decent price back then, and a few different importers started coping the design, mainly importing from Japan and Italy. You might try the switchblade forum as the Jndiana company was heavily into the sale of them.
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Yes, thanks for the Barry Woods lead. I found a similar product, this could easily be a copy. It even came in a red felt pouch, which I thought was strange and maybe re purposed. The Barry Woods example shows a red pouch.
 
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