Let's see your good old basic fixed blades, Bowie's, Stickers, etc.

[mitch4ging]

Filet knife or sticker? I'm not exactly sure yet but I know that these G.L. Drew blades will get tons of use.

A dandy pair either way, Mack!

 

[Hickory n steel]

A Buck 673 i just finished a rehandle job on.

 

[black mamba]

Nice pair, Mack, Gerry makes a great knife, especially for what he charges. I've had several of his over the last 5 years and gifted one to my son in law, who went nuts over it. This is my most recent one from Gerry, a nice skinner in ladder Damascus @ 7.8" OAL.

 

[Elgatodeacero]

GEC H40 with antique cherry handles.

 

[redcanoe]

 

[Travman]

GEC H73 with Chestnut handle.

 

[Elgatodeacero]

This is a mini puukko style neck knife and sheath I recently completed. Masur birch handle, Lauri carbon 60mm blade. I should have made the handle a little bit longer.

 

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I always admired that 124 frontiersman. Blade reminiscent of a Catt 225 Q and an extra long handle compared to the 119 special and 120 general.

I've been looking at my 5" knives.

I got this Czech paratrooper (?) knife from that Outdoorsman's Docent in Wisconsin years ago. Post-Czechoslovakian break-up, but that's a while ago now. 1980s? It's by Mikov.

I have to wonder how many withdrawals of the woodsaw the sheath could endure, and how long it would take even an elite soldier to lose the peg on the string.

 

[screened porch]

I thought this was another 5" blade, but it's 5.5".

It says W36, but it sure doesn't look much like my L36.

Could it have been rushed out the door unfinished as Camillus/Western was sinking?

 

[Hickory n steel]

I thought this was another 5" blade, but it's 5.5".

It says W36, but it sure doesn't look much like my L36.

Could it have been rushed out the door unfinished as Camillus/Western was sinking?

No clue but I like it , love the FFG blade.

 

[flatblackcapo]

I ordered a 1/4"x 4"x4" sample of a marine building material in black. Impervious to everything and perfect for every application. Some kind of polyethylene, I think. $2 for the sample and $7.90 for shipping.

Here is possibly my favorite metal-mounted gaucho knife:

Hey, Jer, is that material called Starboard?
I haven't been in this thread in a while and you have posted up a lot of cool fixed blades in my absence.

 

[Halfneck]

Guarantee that right after issue & the 1st field exercise that peg is missing. Subsequent issue would have a whittled wood stick on a string, or grenade pull ring.

I have to wonder how many withdrawals of the woodsaw the sheath could endure, and how long it would take even an elite soldier to lose the peg on the string.

 

[screened porch]

Hey, Jer, is that material called Starboard?
I haven't been in this thread in a while and you have posted up a lot of cool fixed blades in my absence.

Yes, it is called Starboard (maybe with a hyphen or an asterisk). It looks like great stuff, and very reasonably priced, but I haven't used it yet because I've cooled off on trying to replace a perfectly good Mark I handle with an H-15-inspired handle. I almost used it on my Lauri project, but had enough trouble with my stick of lilac that I didn't feel the need to complicate things. I also thought of using leather washers on the Lauri, but then I realized how many leather washers I'd be cutting and filing by hand. [I've only just realized that I could rough out the leather washers with a hole saw, if they make hole saws small enough, glue them up, rasp to shape, and sand to finish.]
(That Lauri blade is still $10 from the big scandi e-tailer's successor (same name), or $15 in stainless. I think I need to get the stainless one. Then maybe the longest available of their progressively tempered ones (about 4.25", if memory serves). Those are induction-heated like Vaughan axes.)

Everything's always harder than I expect. I've learned to allow three days for any project that couldn't possibly take longer than fifteen minutes. But, as I found courage to make a ukulele from reading Making Poor Man's Guitars, I'm more forgiving of my handle-making after reading that hundreds of years of rat-tail-tanged knives dug up in London's Thames embankment had handles made of sticks bored oversize and secured with shims and wedges. The author of that paper wondered if all the little knots on a whole stick made for a stronger handle, but my guess would be that handle-sized sticks were cheap because otherwise not good for much, and easy because already round.

Thanks for the kind words about my FBs. I was all about FBs until I realized they're all daggers and dirks in Michigan.
This is a pretty handy little knife, the Gerber pixie:

[They make hole saws down to 7/8"! Mwa ha ha. Actually, I think I have one in the green drawers in the garage. I definitely need that stainless Lauri blade now.]

 

[flatblackcapo]

Yes, it is called Starboard (maybe with a hyphen or an asterisk). It looks like great stuff, and very reasonably priced, but I haven't used it yet because I've cooled off on trying to replace a perfectly good Mark I handle with an H-15-inspired handle. I almost used it on my Lauri project, but had enough trouble with my stick of lilac that I didn't feel the need to complicate things. I also thought of using leather washers on the Lauri, but then I realized how many leather washers I'd be cutting and filing by hand. [I've only just realized that I could rough out the leather washers with a hole saw, if they make hole saws small enough, glue them up, rasp to shape, and sand to finish.]
(That Lauri blade is still $10 from the big scandi e-tailer's successor (same name), or $15 in stainless. I think I need to get the stainless one. Then maybe the longest available of their progressively tempered ones (about 4.25", if memory serves). Those are induction-heated like Vaughan axes.)

Everything's always harder than I expect. I've learned to allow three days for any project that couldn't possibly take longer than fifteen minutes. But, as I found courage to make a ukulele from reading Making Poor Man's Guitars, I'm more forgiving of my handle-making after reading that hundreds of years of rat-tail-tanged knives dug up in London's Thames embankment had handles made of sticks bored oversize and secured with shims and wedges. The author of that paper wondered if all the little knots on a whole stick made for a stronger handle, but my guess would be that handle-sized sticks were cheap because otherwise not good for much, and easy because already round.

Thanks for the kind words about my FBs. I was all about FBs until I realized they're all daggers and dirks in Michigan.
This is a pretty handy little knife, the Gerber pixie:

[They make hole saws down to 7/8"! Mwa ha ha. Actually, I think I have one in the green drawers in the garage. I definitely need that stainless Lauri blade now.]

Another nice one, Jer. Is that one that Gerber used the chrome plated W2 on?
I will shoot you a PM about the handle stuff later tonight.

 

[MerryMadMonk]

I thought this was another 5" blade, but it's 5.5".

It says W36, but it sure doesn't look much like my L36.

Could it have been rushed out the door unfinished as Camillus/Western was sinking?

Jer, here's a couple of screenshots from the 1993 and 1995 Camillus catalogs that I thought you might find interesting.

from 1993 catalog, 5 1/2-inch blade

from 1995 catalog, 5-inch blade

Additionally, the W36 doesn't show up an in any catalogs or pricelists after 1999.

 

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Jer, here's a couple of screenshots from the 1993 and 1995 Camillus catalogs that I thought you might find interesting.

from 1993 catalog, 5 1/2-inch blade

from 1995 catalog, 5-inch blade

Additionally, the W36 doesn't show up an in any catalogs or pricelists after 1999.

Aha! Thanks! Nice to know they did it on purpose.

 

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Another nice one, Jer. Is that one that Gerber used the chrome plated W2 on?
I will shoot you a PM about the handle stuff later tonight.

Thanks.
I don't know what the steel is. All I know is I had it by Fall 1974. If it was chromed the chrome is intact, but it hasn't seen much use, so there isn't much reason chrome wouldn't be intact.

 

[LostViking]

GEC H40 with antique cherry handles.

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Well, after litterally years of hemming and hawing. Your post above finally pushed me over the edge to try a Great Eastern Fixed Blade.

I have been wanting to try one for a very long time. For a while they seemd hard to source. Then I would lose focus or not have the cash to spend. Today all the stars line up and one is on its way to the Adirondacks.

What’s not to like?
Simple design, Fixed blade, full tang, hardwood handles, 1095 steel, leather sheath, and reasonably priced.

I’m excited to give one a try!

Thanks for pushing me over the edge with your photos.
LV,

 

[Pàdruig]

Got a couple of new ones in today. Added to the growing assortment from that particular maker.

 

[Henry Beige]

The new toy effect still hasn’t worn off this one.