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

Here's a few more:


Western W36 (with a rigged up to fit sheath) and 2 mid 2000's Marbles USA hunters (can't remember the models). That Western W36 was the only fixed blade left after the wildfires took the farm and my collection. Found an old shorter Western sheath in a junk box so I glued up a temp fix and just kept using it.
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After the fire, found a used W36 like mine for Dad (he had lost his Buck Special). We also lost 4-5 nice older fixed blade Shrade-Walden and Western knives of this style. His is the top knife with the proper sheath. I fixed the stitching for him with some beeswaxed feed sack string last year.
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My daughter bought me this little Marbles USA sheath knife after the fire to help restart my collection. I carried it around so much that it got a little loose in the sheath but tying a knotted leather ring on it snugged it right up.
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Hey SAK Guy, I've got one of those Dadleys as well. Mine is the same as the 2nd from the left in your lower photo, except it has a cracked scale on one side. Would you know if that one's carbon steel or stainless?
 
My good 'ol Sheffield bowie. Blade marked A. Wright & Son, Sheffield. I bought it back in 1983 for twenty dollars on closeout from a popular knife catalog. Its been a great knife, and holds a nice edge.

 
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hawaiianhawk said:
Hey SAK Guy, I've got one of those Dadleys as well. Mine is the same as the 2nd from the left in your lower photo, except it has a cracked scale on one side. Would you know if that one's carbon steel or stainless?
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Those 2 on the left are SS....the logo on the blade will say "Stain Free" across the top of the J Russell diamond. A factory rep wrote me that the Traditional Line knives of that era were 440A. I can tell you that the heat treat must be perfect because I have made 5 walking sticks for the kids in an afternoon and after skinning the bark, choppin' off lots of knots and shaping the tip and crown, my SS Dadely was still very very sharp! I thought it must be 440C or something so I wrote them and asked. Dexter-Russell is the biggest commercial knife manufacturer in the world so they probably have the heat treatment down to a tee.

The ebony handled models are from the 70's and are all 1095 (or so I've read).

From an old Guttman catalog: (shows the "Stain Free" logo)
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SAK Guy said:
That is a gorgeous bowie bro! :thumbup:
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Still being made, by various Sheffield firms. I had one with the John Clark 'I cut my way' etch, and a Wostenholm IXL one (both stolen with a load of other knives 20 years ago unfortunately).
 
Mine is a Wm(?) Rogers "I Cut My Way" with a picture of an axe. 1976 purchase.
Sorry about your loss, Jack. Sometimes I'll come across a knife I decided years ago was my favorite and hid, for fear of such malefactors.
 
scrteened porch said:
Mine is a Wm(?) Rogers "I Cut My Way" with a picture of an axe. 1976 purchase.
Sorry about your loss, Jack. Sometimes I'll come across a knife I decided years ago was my favorite and hid, for fear of such malefactors.
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Thanks Jer. I was just looking at the same pattern on the Arthur Wright site. I might even get another! :D
 
Jack Black said:
Still being made, by various Sheffield firms. I had one with the John Clark 'I cut my way' etch, and a Wostenholm IXL one (both stolen with a load of other knives 20 years ago unfortunately).
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I didn't get any stolen but lost a few in a fire....this is what we could find. 99% of the pocket knives were buried under debris and then hauled off with the rest of the house. I figure about 150+ were lost....

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There is a Tapio Wirkkala puukko blade somewhere on that sawhorse.... :(
 
SAK Guy said:
I didn't get any stolen but lost a few in a fire....this is what we could find. 99% of the pocket knives were buried under debris and then hauled off with the rest of the house. I figure about 150+ were lost....
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Very sorry to hear that :(

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that my parents were safe was all that mattered at the time....
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But very glad nobody was hurt.
 
Thank you sir!

Just yesterday, I just found a box of blades that I had hoped to re-temper/restore but have made little progress on building a forge. I do have a forced air device but that's about it.
 
SAK Guy said:
Just yesterday, I just found a box of blades that I had hoped to re-temper/restore but have made little progress on building a forge. I do have a forced air device but that's about it.
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Good luck with that, it'd be great to salvage something :thumbup:
 
Grohmann/D.H. Russell belt knives (all carbon steel).

Top down:
A big Russell Camp (rosewood), Orig Belt Knife, flat ground (Micarta) and a R. Murphy USA skinner in zebrawood.

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SAKGUY...Those Grohmann,s are extraordinary knives in my opinion...they look ungainly but are a joy to use..I use mine mainly for separating bones on carcasses..Very stout.......FES

 
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