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

Boker 503

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^ THat looks kinda like the Tom Krein Pocket Bowie my friend. Tell us more :)
 
Jack Black said:
^ THat looks kinda like the Tom Krein Pocket Bowie my friend. Tell us more :)
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Nothing that cool! ;)

It's the Arbolito made 503 Skinner from the early 80's. This was in my orig Boker store stock that a buddy bought (the entire display and stock) and then gave it all back to me after the fire to restart my knife collection! :)

The Bakelite handle is very ergonomic.
 
A very nice blade.

Here is a pair I have posted elsewhere, but not here. A couple of old pre-war Camillus blades.

Camillus Sportsman pattern early 1930's
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Camillus sportsman pattern late 1930's
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Codger_64 said:
A very nice blade.

Here is a pair I have posted elsewhere, but not here. A couple of old pre-war Camillus blades.

Camillus Sportsman pattern early 1930's
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Camillus sportsman pattern late 1930's
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Wow, those are so nice...clean lines!!!! :thumbup:
 
Both were made for F.W. Woolworths, so as you can imagine, they were low pricepoint knives. The Kromeplate Sportsman, Tom Williams tells me, was ordered very early in the war for the military overseas while they were waiting on specifications and designs to come dwn for military specific knives. They were buying just about anything they could get their hands on it seems.

I have three of the smaller. earlier Sportsmans. For such simple knives, they are well designed and made, simple pinned wood covers that are still tight and uncracked to this day. Rosewood? Cocabolo?

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Totally utilitarian and close to perfect in their simplicity, IMO. I notice the lack of guards too.
 
As I said, low pricepoint knives. A simplification of the earlier outers pattern knives with self guards. In use, the large safe-choil does the duty of a guard. And the elimination of the extra component and it's assembly helped keep the wholesale and retail price to a minimum. Not many kitchen knives have guards?

Here is an Imperial Outers pattern. It was made for them by another company. Who? Western? Kinfolks?

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I associate knives of this age as being part of simpler times...better times. We always hunted with Schrade Waldens or Westerns and my Dad's deer knife at the time of the fire was a Buck Special (he had given the older knives to me). Time tested designs that worked. Nothing special and if you lost one...Sears or Western Auto had a case full on them....better times IMO.
 
The sun finally came out here this afternoon and I was able to take better pictures of that latest get, the 1966 Schrade Walden 165OT.

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Serial #00009, the 9th one made.
 
sunnyd said:
A discussion in another thread here brought this subject up. The young member was wondering if other forumites could offer any advice on the subject of the medium to large fixed blades. And I thought a thread broadening the subject a bit and detailing uses of this most basic of knife designs with pictures of collectibles and users alike may be worth exploring for a change.

I'll start off with a Rick Smith custom bowie from his Bear Bones forge in Rogue River, OR. Its built with O-1 tool steel(one of my favorite blade steels) and a full tang design with old pre-ban elephant ivory scales around a classic coffin handle and a brass oval guard. The blade is nearly 7 inches and 10 3/4 overall. I wear a sticker of some kind at work nearly every day and it cuts like the dickens. In fact, today I cut square holes with it on a run of exposed a/c duct work where the grills are to be installed throughout an office building I am remodeling..

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Great looking sheath...did he make it also?
 
Put together some pieces I've had kicking around for about a year now.

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Piece of antler from the local Petco, an old-stock Old Hickory knife blade, and some lead-free silver solder to hold everything together. It feels nice and solid and balances well in the hand. Wants to move and cut, and there's a nice clean little bald patch on my arm now. I had to cast the solder twice; the first time it didn't fill the cavity well and the whole assembly rattled in the antler. Pulled everything apart, melted the solder back off the tang, and did it again. Heating the tang and coating it in pencil graphite seemed to help a lot. There are some ugly bits where I poured some solder on too late and it formed a seperation line, but I'll know better next time. I'm pretty pleased.
 
hawaiianhawk said:
Put together some pieces I've had kicking around for about a year now.

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Piece of antler from the local Petco, an old-stock Old Hickory knife blade, and some lead-free silver solder to hold everything together. It feels nice and solid and balances well in the hand. Wants to move and cut, and there's a nice clean little bald patch on my arm now. I had to cast the solder twice; the first time it didn't fill the cavity well and the whole assembly rattled in the antler. Pulled everything apart, melted the solder back off the tang, and did it again. Heating the tang and coating it in pencil graphite seemed to help a lot. There are some ugly bits where I poured some solder on too late and it formed a seperation line, but I'll know better next time. I'm pretty pleased.
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Wow HH, that looks great!!!! :thumbup::thumbup:
 
Thanks, folks. This one turned out nicer than my first attempt, which I'm also going to solder-bolster, except that one's epoxied in. Now I need to get a hold of some good leather and make some sheaths... This one fits an old nylon pouch sheath I have really well, but it just cries for some good leather.
 
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