My New Old Queen Barlow

[r redden]

I won the auction for this Queen #22 Barlow the other day for way less than $50 which I felt was a great deal. When I got the knife in hand it had no tang stamp just a patent # so it's a 61 to 71. The knife has saw very little use if any never been sharpened. It has sawcut delrin covers and what I believe to be 440c stainless What makes this knife so interesting to me is the construction. In my research I found that Modoc ED had purchased the same type knife in 2011. He did a great job in explaining the way the knife was built in the thread for this link.
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/queen-steel-22-barlow-just-arrived.804459/
Here is a quote from Modoc ED
"What makes this knife unique is the way it is built. The body of the knife is an elongated casing with the bottom and front open while the spine and rear are closed. There are slots in the closed top edge of the casing. There is no spring pin to attach the spring to the casing. Rather, the spring is inserted through the rear slot in the closed, top edge, of the casing, fitted to the blade tang in the usual manner and fitted to a shoulder on a piece attached internally to the closed, rear, end of the casing. This causes the spring to be leveraged to the solid edge (back) of the casing. That's kind of a simplistic description but you should be able to understand it by looking at the picture of the back of the knife."
My knife was a presentation knife for a 2 year safety award according to the blade etch.

MY KNIFE

HERE ARE THE PATENT TECHNICAL DRAWINGS.

 

[afishhunter]

Very nice, Randy.
I've never seen that construction before.
As I am not a Queen expert, do they still use this construction method?

 

[HeathH]

Gorgeous knife, thanks for posting Randy! I've seen those for sale (though never one that nice) and always wondered how they went together. Thanks for the technical drawings too, I love the design and construction of slip joints... that is a really clever design! Thanks again for putting it up there for us

 

[redsparrow]

Cool barlow Randy!! I've not seen one before. It looks great, has a very useful blade combination and the design is so unique, it's definitely a great score. A real special keeper!

 

[Campbellclanman]

Great write - up Randy. Now I got one of those- I'm not too sure if so have it here or at Paul's place lol.
This is really interesting- it gives me some great research as I may have missed Eds fantastic Thread.
Well Randy and thank you kind Sir and Ed thank you so much for your research.

 

[Rich S]

This was the standard design of Queen barlows until recent times. It was my first knife given to me by my grandfather in the late 1950's. A single blade, jigged bone scales (still have it). I bought a double blade with sawcut Delrin scales in the late 1980's-early 1990's . Also had a "Drake Well" model from 1972. Don't know when the switched to the construction now used, but I guess (?) fairly recently, maybe late 1990's-2000 (it's still in their 1999 catalog). I also have a new one in D2 with wood scales that I got a couple years ago. The old models are real nail breakers - very strong springs. I think the design was sold under other trademarks as well (Ontario, Old Hickory ?). Great old barlow.

Notice that pattern drawing is for the Queen Big Chief's model (at least that's what I think it was called; same size as a daddy barlow). Note the all aluminum checkered handles. Same type mechanism as on their barlows.

Rich

 

[Railsplitter]

I need to get myself an older Queen knife. All of mine are 2005 and later.

Really cool knife, Randy!

 

[willard0341]

Good looking! Thanks for sharing the intricies (gotta love spell check)

 

[Rich S]

I should add that Queen Cutlery has a lot (many, many years) of old catalogs on their site; listed under historical documents.

http://www.queencutlery.com/Historical_Documents.html

Rich

 

[r redden]

According to the patent office the patent office the patent was applied for August 21, 1953 and granted Dec 27, 1955. I know mines not that old 45 to 56 years old but the pull is very equal on both the sheepsfoot and the pen about a 6 with superb walk and talk on both blades as well. The sheepsfoot is easily pinchable as well. From what I've found this type build was also used on the Big Chief. Thanks for the info Rich you
have given me more to research.

 

[Modoc ED]

You've got a nice one Randy. Nice write-up and thanks for referencing my old thread. Since my original thread on these knives, I've picked up this one. It is very close to mint condition.

 

[neal70]

Randy, Ed-great explanations on that mechanism. Fantastic to see some good examples of it too! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Neal