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Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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It's Tuesday!Random Tuesday dealt me this Tod Cutler 14th-15th century eating knife today
Love my SwAK! It lives on my surf fishing belt & survived everything thrown at it.That's definitely the same issue Jer
I like the sportsman and imperial H7 , but always thought these Colonials were kind of stupid.A Colonial riff on the Utica Sportsman type:
"'Adopt, adapt, and improve', the motto of the Coldstream Guards."
Nicely said JerIt's Tuesday!
I sometimes think we're a bit silly about patina around here, but there's something Kephart-homely about a food knife that's gone black with feeding you and yours.
Thanks JeffJack, that Tod Cutler is a real cutie!
I call these two knives Bowie/Hunters, because they aren't long enough in the blade to be true Bowies, but they're too big to be true hunters. What they are, though, is a very impressive piece of American Cutlery! USA Schrade #171UH Pro-Hunter on top and a Western Westmark #701 on the bottom. Both made in the early 1970s.
Two very handsome knives there 
Would you say this Kaufman was in a similar style? 
You did a great job thereLove my SwAK! It lives on my surf fishing belt & survived everything thrown at it.
I bought a bare blade from Ragnar, IJ I think, put a guard and stag handle on it and believed I had created the perfect field knife.
Sometime later this knife and the SwAK ended up side by side on the sharpening bench.
Great minds?
The SwAK sheath is a little fiddly but it’s all I could ask for in the marine environment.
I put an inexpensive carabiner thru the belt loop and it makes a decent dangler, not to mention the ease of getting it on and off the belt.
One of my SwAKs lives in the bathroom these days, does duty opening soap packets and razor blades 
Jack, I would say the Kaufman is a pure hunter/skinner, very similar to the old Marbles Woodcraft pattern. Assuming it's a more manageable sized blade than the two I posted.
In 1971 I was at the old SF Camp at Plei Djereng in the Central Highlands. The Recon Teams from CCC (Command and Control Central) SOG started to use our camp as a Launch Site. I had a Razor-Edge sharpening device and sharpened a bunch of their knives for them. One day a man showed up with oner of those MOD knives, pretty sure with a wooden handle. Took a long time and moved a lot of metal to get it sharp. After returning tho the states I bought one and it was no better than the first one. My good friend the late Chuck Karwan thought he blade might not even be tempered just case hardened. I do not know about that, but fully agree with Ryan on the caliber of this knife. John
It is Jeff, thanksJack, I would say the Kaufman is a pure hunter/skinner, very similar to the old Marbles Woodcraft pattern. Assuming it's a more manageable sized blade than the two I posted.
They are probably only useful as a digging tool/trowel, and your friend might have been right John, I have seen some terribly hit and miss HT in Sheffield, many of the cutlers were very ignorant about it, and didn't even care
Nice to see the 'Bugle' stamp again JerHere's a nice jungle knife. It cuts better than a lot of longer ones.
Later back in the USA I bought a Jungle knife made by Wilkerson, the one with the plastic sword handle. It was a much better knife than the MOD one but suffered from a very thin, and poorly made sheath. I gave it to a man on my A-Team who did not have a fixed blade knife and we reinforced the sheath with lots of 100 MPH tape. Jack Black might know which knife I am talking about and have a photo of it. John
I think I've only ever used it in the garden, but I couldn't resist picking this one up for £10
Condors have gone up, too. Duh, like everything.I think I've only ever used it in the garden, but I couldn't resist picking this one up for £10
Yeah, alarmingly!
No, the mod was done by a previous owner Jer. If I'd modded it, I think I'd have done it a bit differently, as the handle is a wee bit small for my large hands. Most likely, I wouldn't have bothered though! I have this big Condor Moonshiner too, it's cartoonishly big, but I thought it was a real bargain when I bought it 
