Let's see those Cheapies

[black mamba]

Thanks, Logan, it's a good little knife, and a great little knife for the money!

 

[Astrogator]

Very nice and interesting pics being shown.

Keep them coming Folks.

Thank you All.

Cheers.

 

[ADEE]

Here is a modestly priced but worthy little lock-knife from Highlander based in Scotland. It was about £7.00. Very nice finish and feel and comes with the pouch.

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[ADEE]

And another slightly less worthy lock-knife from a bargain shop at the seaside for about £4.00. It need a fair bit of sweetening and nurturing to make it nice [and to make me feel better].

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[oldtymer]

Here is a modestly priced but worthy little lock-knife from Highlander based in Scotland. It was about £7.00. Very nice finish and feel and comes with the pouch.

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That's a neat little folder, nice grain in the wood & the satin finish on the bolsters are a nice touch, you did well.
George

 

[sunandsteel]

Here is a modestly priced but worthy little lock-knife from Highlander based in Scotland. It was about £7.00. Very nice finish and feel and comes with the pouch.

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Looks good. What kind of wood is that?

 

[ADEE]

That's a neat little folder, nice grain in the wood & the satin finish on the bolsters are a nice touch, you did well.
George

Thanks George. Yes, I felt good about the purchase. They seem to come in several sizes mine being the smallest. Of course, being a lock-knife I cannot carry it freely in the UK even though it is small. Ad.

 

[ADEE]

Looks good. What kind of wood is that?

Hi sunandsteel, sorry I can't help you with the type of wood. Perhaps it grows in China where the knife was made. Ad.

 

[littleknife]

Hi sunandsteel, sorry I can't help you with the type of wood. Perhaps it grows in China where the knife was made. Ad.

Could it be pakkawood (laminated veneers of hardwood impregnated with phenolic resins and dyes)?
The Chinese made Buck knives had birchwood laminate handles, some of which were very similar to the scales of your knife.

Nice knife, by the way! :thumbup:

 

[littleknife]

Please, google Images for “ Szco 4" CLASSIC PAKKAWOOD LOCKBACK KNIFE “.
Chinese made and looks very much like your knife.

 

[midnight flyer]

Could it be pakkawood (laminated veneers of hardwood impregnated with phenolic resins and dyes)?
The Chinese made Buck knives had birchwood laminate handles, some of which were very similar to the scales of your knife.

Nice knife, by the way! :thumbup:

It is a nice looking knife!

And yes, it is pakkawood. Although they call it by other names, that's the stuff. I used to think poorly of it until I saw nicer specimens of the stuff like you have, and then found it wears like IRON. I had an work knife years ago (thinking an American made Buck, but could be wrong) that had pakkawood on the scales, and found it to be just about impervious to any kind of wear. I liked it on that knife a lot, as it wasn't a show knife but a worker.

This knife works perfectly in this thread:



I have had it know about 5-6 years and it has become my favorite stockman work knife. It wasn't expensive at all when I bought it (closeout at local sporting goods store was $10 - $12 bucks!) but it has been a great worker. It rides around with change, my cigar lighter, sometimes drill bits, etc., in my front jeans pocket under my tool bags. It is easily as well made as any production knife I have owned (except a couple of Dan Burke knives) and all this time later it is still a great knife. After carrying it for a year, I bought two more on closeout the next year, and since then they stopped carrying this type of knife.

Pertinent to this thread, the scales on this knife are coal black pakkawood. I orignally thought they were some kind of really hard plastic or delrin, then when they didn't show any wear for a long time, bone. One day while sitting on the saw horses in the bright sun I saw the pattern/layers of the wood. Laminate! Like my other knife with this type of laminate, it is wearing extremely well. I had never seen coal black laminate like this. The other knife that I kept is still in new condition, and buffed out like the wood on ADEE's knife, it is so highly polished you cannot tell it is laminate yet.

I like threads like this. Affordable working knives are great, and there have been some beauties in this thread. I hope it stays alive for awhile!

Robert

 

[black mamba]

In light of what has happened to the stag market in the last few years, these were an absolute steal. Genuine stag Rough Riders,
I paid right at $100 for all five of them. The covers alone would be double that now.

 

[ThievesLikeUs]

That is an incredible deal!!

Good on you man.

 

[ADEE]

Please, google Images for “ Szco 4" CLASSIC PAKKAWOOD LOCKBACK KNIFE “.
Chinese made and looks very much like your knife.

Thank you littleknife .... I did the google search and yes that looks the same knife. Pakkawood it is.

 

[ADEE]

It is a nice looking knife!

And yes, it is pakkawood. Although they call it by other names, that's the stuff. I used to think poorly of it until I saw nicer specimens of the stuff like you have, and then found it wears like IRON. I had an work knife years ago (thinking an American made Buck, but could be wrong) that had pakkawood on the scales, and found it to be just about impervious to any kind of wear. I liked it on that knife a lot, as it wasn't a show knife but a worker.
Robert

Many thanks for those observations midnight flyer. Encouraging ! I like the idea a a black version.

 

[Astrogator]

Hello,

Here is another one.

It is a Sheffield made Taylors Eye Witness of recent vintage.

If I remember correctly I paid the equivalent of about 9 U.S.A. Dollars for it.

The knife is very strongly made, and reasonably well fitted, although the blade grind is a little bit "off" towards the point of the knife, there is no blade play.
This does not affect the performance at all and the knife cuts very well.

My late Father In Law carried a larger version of this knife (about 4 inches closed), he would only buy Taylors Eye Witness knives and nothing else LOL.

Cheers.

 

[Bloefield]

RR Dog Bones, Sawcut and Smooth.

 

[bearsquared]

This one wasn't as cheap in price as it should have been, something like £15/$25 as far as I can remember.





The fit and finish are awful, with gaps between spring and liners, liners and scales, scales and bolsters, blade and spring. Plus it has poor and uneven grinds on most of the blade and bolsters, and the scales are bizarrely coloured textured plastic that's supposed to resemble stag







But it does a good job cutting up cardboard for recycling and other odd jobs and seems to keep its edge well enough, and has a reassuring heft in hand. So it's capable and useful, just ugly!

 

[mr_badexample]

This import Marbles is part of their workman series. I'm a fan of orange so that part works for me. (It's available in other colors too.) what I really like about it is the real Philips head screw driver. I use that around the house quite often. Overall the knife is robust and well made.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

That's pretty cool Brian, haven't heard or seen that one.

Here's one I took a chance on from Amazon, at the time it was set for those with Prime membership so you get free two day shipping, knife was about $9 but now I see it's off Prime and has a price of around $3.49 with shipping at $5.54 which still gets you up around the $9 mark

Rite Edge Sowbelly

and right now I'm on a pretty severe budget but you know, when you need new steel, you need something even if it's not that high dollar rascal you'd love to see come in...

about 3" closed

The build and fitup on this isn't too bad, the bone scales are jigged pretty well, the fitup of the scales on the one side could be better but I've seen them worse on other knives, blades all needed to be sharpened up to my level and they did sharpen well, I plan on using this for whittling as well as being my package opener with the small coping blade doing that neatly for me.

G2