New Schatt & Morgan Series

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Ain't been around much lately :confused: Been a pretty busy summer so far! :thumbup: But I was reading an article in this months Knife World that I thought might be of some interest here.
Queen is going to start producing in 2011 their new annual S&M series to replace the "keystone" series. The Heritage Series is based on 2 old S&M catalogs a 1903 & `08. The catalogs are being reproduced by David Clark and according to the article Mr. Clark was instrumental in idea of this series.
What Queen is going to do is take 1 page a year from either catalog & reproduce the knives on that page. Blade steel, blade finishes, pulls, handle material, shields even some talk about finding a source for "Norway Iron" for some bolsters!!
Apparently the 1903 catalog is a relatively new find and it was C.B. Morgan's personal copy. It has 54 pages while the `08 has 130 pages.
I am looking forward to the catalogs arriving & seeing what Queen produces in the 1st set. I would say that this is pretty traditional and with S&M/Queens history in U.S. cutlery might just be a step back in time.

Dave
 
Saw that. Has the potential to be something really special if done up right. :thumbup:
 
Thanks for the info Dave. With Queen behind the wheel this will be like walking into a hardware store a hundred years ago. Too bad the prices won't be the same. Haha. I can't wait to see them. No series since the Sambar V has really excited me.
Tank (AAPK)
 
That's a pretty nifty idea. I'm looking forward to seeing how these turn out. Thanks for the info.
 
comoha said:
That's exciting news. I can't wait to see more about it.
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That is exciting news. I'd like to see them produce a Jack Knife and I'd like to see what their Stockman/Cattle Knife looks like. Perhaps the catalogs can shed some light on older patterns and materials used during that time.

I just hope their quality is better than the knife in this thread.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=754004&highlight=neeman

I sent my knife back and "neeman" is waiting to see what happens before he sends his back. When I talked to the Queen rep, she stated that they'd had other returns of the knife.
 
I have a set of the catalogs mentioned above, most of the knives are outstanding, producing the knives as originally made is just awesome. Cannot wait to see the first model. Unfortunately do not want to ruin the catalogs for scanning.

Russell
 
That does seem like a great idea. You can't much more traditional than that. As for F&F, while some members issues are unfortunate, my guess is they know about it & will improve from it, hopefully.

Looking forward to some pics/scans of what these may look like.
 
That is really exciting news. I just love S&M and to have authentic re-makes of some of those 100 year old classics sounds like a wonderful idea.

Thanks for posting that news Dave:thumbup:

Buy the way what is "Norway Iron" ?
 
Alfaholic said:
That is really exciting news. I just love S&M and to have authentic re-makes of some of those 100 year old classics sounds like a wonderful idea.

Thanks for posting that news Dave:thumbup:

By the way what is "Norway Iron" ?
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Steven, I know nothing much about it but here's an interesting link from an article dating back to 1917. Quite fitting given the vintage nature of the knives.
 
Iron bolsters. That seals the deal right there. I'm with Alfaholic as to what Norway Iron is?
 
Alfaholic said:
That is really exciting news. I just love S&M and to have authentic re-makes of some of those 100 year old classics sounds like a wonderful idea.

Thanks for posting that news Dave:thumbup:

Buy the way what is "Norway Iron" ?
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I agree Steven. Can't wait to see what they come up with. If done right, which I would imagine they will, they should be very cool.

Thanks for the link on Norway Iron Elliott. I too had absolutely no idea what it is
 
knowtracks said:
Ain't been around much lately :confused: Been a pretty busy summer so far! :thumbup: But I was reading an article in this months Knife World that I thought might be of some interest here.
Queen is going to start producing in 2011 their new annual S&M series to replace the "keystone" series. The Heritage Series is based on 2 old S&M catalogs a 1903 & `08. The catalogs are being reproduced by David Clark and according to the article Mr. Clark was instrumental in idea of this series.
What Queen is going to do is take 1 page a year from either catalog & reproduce the knives on that page. Blade steel, blade finishes, pulls, handle material, shields even some talk about finding a source for "Norway Iron" for some bolsters!!
Apparently the 1903 catalog is a relatively new find and it was C.B. Morgan's personal copy. It has 54 pages while the `08 has 130 pages.
I am looking forward to the catalogs arriving & seeing what Queen produces in the 1st set. I would say that this is pretty traditional and with S&M/Queens history in U.S. cutlery might just be a step back in time.

Dave
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I was coming to post this and you beat me to it. It's great news and I especially like the easy open teardrop jack! I'm looking forward to seeing that one.

I will add that I just got the same copy of Knife World on a free trial and it has a good amount of traditional topics covered such as the Swedish Mora and "Triple Play" which is an article on 3 blade slip joints. I'm not sure if each edition has the same coverage of traditional topics but I like it so far. I don't think this is deal spotting because it's free but they have a two issue free trial if anyone is interested. If it is deal spotting I apologize in advance.
 
Knife World is an excellent resource for traditional knife aficionados as well as those whose interest runs to more "modern" knives.

Additionally, we get the bonus of reading the occasional article by our own Mike Robuck, and Bernard Levine has a monthly column which is very educational.

Several makers that participate here, Tony Bose, Ken Erickson, Mike Zscherny (amongst others) have been featured on KW's front page.
 
Blues said:
Steven, I know nothing much about it but here's an interesting link from an article dating back to 1917. Quite fitting given the vintage nature of the knives.
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Thank You for the link Elliott :thumbup: I was going to have to look it up:rolleyes: I remember that it was suppose to be good but I couldn't remember why.

Dave
 
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