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

[Jack Black]

Joseph Rodgers 1900-1910

 

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Joseph Rodgers 1900-1910

Very nice. Spear-point butchers are very rare around these parts.

 

[Jack Black]

Very nice. Spear-point butchers are very rare around these parts.

Thanks Like a pig-sticker, but I've seen them sold here as Boat Knives, Sailor's Knives, or Deck Knives

This one isn't as old. That's not the original sheath

 

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Thanks Like a pig-sticker, but I've seen them sold here as Boat Knives, Sailor's Knives, or Deck Knives

This one isn't as old. That's not the original sheath

Or a Dadl(e)y or a Kephart!
have a double-edged spearpoint that I assume is for disanimating rather than breaking down.

 

[Jack Black]

Or a Dadl(e)y or a Kephart!
have a double-edged spearpoint that I assume is for disanimating rather than breaking down.

Yes, obviously they're the most common names amongst knife collectors, but I've never heard those terms used in the Sheffield cutlery industry. I did hear them commonly referred to as 'Green River Knives' though!

I hope I get to do more with this Brisa Kephart soon

 

[Henry Beige]

Old photo. There are a couple of Dadleys there, including a Green River from Dexter-Russell, second from right. In the same box as my Dadleys, I also have a Dexter sticker, 6” spear point, sharpened on both sides. No pic, and my overloaded devices aren’t handling new photos very well. It has an unusual, full-width partial tang, and a very unusual pot metal or aluminum guard that is pinned to the handle, both better described with pictures.

 

[Jack Black]

Old photo. There are a couple of Dadleys there, including a Green River from Dexter-Russell, second from right.


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Very nice Henry

 

[Jack Black]

Or a Dadl(e)y or a Kephart!
have a double-edged spearpoint that I assume is for disanimating rather than breaking down.

BY a rather astonishing coincidence, I just spotted a couple of line-drawings, one of which shows one of these knives, in a later edition of Blade's Guide to Knives. Since, there is a glowing tribute to the quality of Joseph Rodgers knives immediately preceding it, I thought the drawing was from a Rodgers catalogue at first, but it actually shows a near-identical knife by John Wilson. In the catalogue it's described as a 'Sticker'

 

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I read somewhere that it was Dadly in England and Dadley in the US. Like whisk(e)y, unless it's backwards.
Here's that double-edger which isn't a Kep or a Dad.

 

[Jack Black]

I read somewhere that it was Dadly in England and Dadley in the US. Like whisk(e)y, unless it's backwards.
Here's that double-edger which isn't a Kep or a Dad.

Cool Jer I only know Dadley, but who knows? It's a name I've only heard/seen used by knife collectors It's whisky in Scotland, and whiskey in Ireland

 

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This came. I'd like to see a demonstration of the style of knife combat where there's no danger of your fingers sliding onto your edge. I like the knife, though, and hope to never have to do any combatting with it.

The sheath is a little awkward, but it holds the knife. The lower keeper strap doesn't grip anything, so it doesn't matter that it's a bit tricky to thread the edge past it. [Correction: the lower keeper strap covers the heel of the blade to retain the knife.]

It still reminds me a bit of this very sweet knife:

 

[Horsewright]

My own personal EDC:

This guy was sent in for some new pants:

Left hand horizontal cross draw:

 

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I don't like the rattling guards that come on these speider knives.

I'm not entirely sure this is an improvement. A plan in progress rather than a work in progress.

 

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Previous style OKC bushcraft field knife in 5160 and walnut. Ontario marked it as a second by not marking it at all.

The cosmetic flaw was a failure to finish polishing around the tang and along the back.

I think this is the other side.

With a Selkirk for scale. The OKC handle feels longer than it is, compared to the Buck.

 

[RickHuf]

That's just about everything you could want! No nonsense shape, good steel and some pretty wood. Those are some great looking scales.

Good stuff!

 

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That's just about everything you could want! No nonsense shape, good steel and some pretty wood. Those are some great looking scales.

Good stuff!

Thank you. This one may really be the one and only always and everywhere be-all and end-all.

 

[RickHuf]

This one may really be the one and only always and everywhere be-all and end-all.

Everytime I say that, another presents itself rather quickly. In this case though, that could certainly be it!

 

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Everytime I say that, another presents itself rather quickly. In this case though, that could certainly be it!

Me too. The Selkirk held the same title for a few days, and is still right up there, with the Schrade H-15 and the Marttiini Lynx lumberjack.
And the Camillus/Western Mark I Navy.

 

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I found a sheath in the basement that will do for now. I wish Irene had thrown out a dozen purses like the one this is made of.

 

[Henry Beige]

That's my favorite blade of the three, though I have no personal connection to that lake.
I'm guessing there won't be a sheath, but . A Schrade Pro Hunter sheath works pretty well.

Mine arrived yesterday. No point in another pic, as they all look pretty much alike. No sheath. It looks like it ought to fare pretty well in the kitchen.