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

Truly beautiful and a fitting tribute to the honoree....
 
Got this little Western (468B) to go with my Hunter...I always thought my hunter was A marked?..But it has no letter marking....Love this little knife and its now sharp and getting a patina......Thanks Duncan...........................FES

 
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festerfromnzed said:
Got this little Western (468B) to go with my Hunter...I always thought my hunter was A marked?..But it has no letter marking....Love this little knife and its now sharp and getting a patina......Thanks Duncan...........................FES

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Great combo FES! :thumbup:
 
That must be one of the best (if not the best) collections of pre-WWII KA-BARs in the USA. Impressive. Beautiful knives.
 
Jack Black said:
Those are interesting. Do you know when they were made?
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Yes, these were made in Ferndale, Michigan by my Great Uncle, Dale Edwards (late 60's to mid-70's). I have a couple prototypes and at least one of every model he made (prob 8-10 variations, all finished similarly), plus several naked blades (blade finished, but not handled), and others from his personal collection.

I actually sold a few of the duplicates that I had in the collection several years ago. But might have to keep the rest of them for myself! They were left to me by my dad when he died. Believe it or not, my brother (not a knife dude) had no interest in any of the knives at all, so I got the whole collection (about 30+ pieces in total). Very nice!
 
link2derek said:
Yes, these were made in Ferndale, Michigan by my Great Uncle, Dale Edwards (late 60's to mid-70's). I have a couple prototypes and at least one of every model he made (prob 8-10 variations, all finished similarly), plus several naked blades (blade finished, but not handled), and others from his personal collection.

I actually sold a few of the duplicates that I had in the collection several years ago. But might have to keep the rest of them for myself! They were left to me by my dad when he died. Believe it or not, my brother (not a knife dude) had no interest in any of the knives at all, so I got the whole collection (about 30+ pieces in total). Very nice!
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Wow, thanks for the info, very interesting. Sorry to hear about your dad, but that's a great piece of family history. So what was the Sheffield connection exactly, were the production models made there, or were they finished/hafted there?

The prototypes look superb BTW :)
 
Jack Black said:
Wow, thanks for the info, very interesting. Sorry to hear about your dad, but that's a great piece of family history. So what was the Sheffield connection exactly, were the production models made there, or were they finished/hafted there?

The prototypes look superb BTW :)
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Thanks, Jack. The story is that my Uncle traveled to England (multiple times) and oversaw the design, production, and finish of the first run of blades. The blades were shipped back to the states, and he finished the handles and fittings here in Michigan. He also hand made leather sheaths for them here too. As far as I know, no second run was ever done. If anyone has every seen one of these, I'd be interested to hear about it because I have no idea (and neither did Dad) how many were produced.
 
link2derek said:
Thanks, Jack. The story is that my Uncle traveled to England (multiple times) and oversaw the design, production, and finish of the first run of blades. The blades were shipped back to the states, and he finished the handles and fittings here in Michigan. He also hand made leather sheaths for them here too. As far as I know, no second run was ever done. If anyone has every seen one of these, I'd be interested to hear about it because I have no idea (and neither did Dad) how many were produced.
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Fascinating, thanks again. It might be worth posting a seperate thread about them, you might garner more information that way. The blades look a little familiar, but it was the handle that struck me as being very different to anything I've ever seen from Nowill's, or in Sheffield generally. I don't know if your uncle ever said, but based on personal experience, I can imagine that dealing with the Sheffield cutlers was pretty frustrating. Thanks again for sharing and I hope that others can help filling in the missing pieces :thumbup:

Jack
 
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