Nice Camillus Stockman.

JD Mandrell

JD Mandrell

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I picked this one up at a flea market yesterday, it's a Camillus Roughcut Tobacco Stockman, 4 inch closed with Delrin scales "durastag".

Strong backsprings and fit is great, the big surprise was carbon steel blades. You can see in one picture that the sheepsfoot blade fell victim to an apple this morning for breakfast and started to turn black.

This was sort of an impulse buy, only gave $16.00 for it and it was new/unused. I really didn't pay alot of attention to the steel when I bought it, so the carbon steel is a bonus to me!

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I did a little online searching this morning, and seems the "Roughcut" knives had a wide variety of handles and blades, one source said these were an economy knife that was made from parts left over from other contract orders??? Anyone know more?

Quality on this one is high, strong walk/Talk and while it was not really sharp when I bought it, it sharpened up nicely.
 
IIRC, those were made up by Camillus for Smoky Mountain's catalog.
That looks like a nice one. :thumbup:

Bill
 
I like these knives! I have had several over the recents years. I still have a Large Stockman with the squared bolsters. I have found the fit & finish to be pretty darn good for a parts knife.. And for 16. you cannot go wrong!:D

The only problem I had that was consistent was blade rub. However, a bit of hand crincking fixed that in short order..:cool:

EDITED TO ADD: All mine had the long oval "CamilluS" shield. Not the coin type shield you have here.
 
This one was at a flea market in Sikeston, MO. The guy actually had a bunch of Camillus stuff priced right.

He's only there on Sat. and Sun. and had a fairly decent selection of most brands.
 
As I recall them from the catalogs, the Rough Cut line was a step above the "leftover parts" (mixed stainless and carbon) knives in the fit and finish department and was advertised by Smokey as being carbon steel (but they are not responsible for errors in description...). They also had pinned on scales, while the "leftovers" generally had the delrin melted on.
 
I said it before and I'll say it again. Man, I wish we had your flea markets around here. All we usualy have are tables full of cheap, dollar store type stuff. I'm afraid MO is a way too far to travel from here. I already did that 900 mile plus in one day trip to Lake Ozark for business once. Pretty country though. I could live there I think. I miss hardwoods, squirrel and rabbit hunting done as a serious pursuit. And now, good buys on some nice knives.
 
I've seen that knife before, but have always seen it listed as stainless.

Like here (very bottom):

http://www.knifecountry.com/camillus.htm

Wonder if they are just mislabeled, or if they are really just "part knives", I guess you'd just have to take a chance and find out when you got home...

Or maybe the dealer would loan you one to cut your apple.....

Nice pick up!!
 
Sharpthangs said:
I've seen that knife before, but have always seen it listed as stainless.

Like here (very bottom):

http://www.knifecountry.com/camillus.htm
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WOW, that sure looks just like mine, I've seen SMKW mislabel the steel before on their website, so I guess it happens. I ate another apple at breakfast this morning and used the main blade and it turned color also so at least two blades in mine are, I'll do the Spey blade to see if it does also. I normally "cheat" and start high carbon blades developing a patina with apples anyway.
 
Given your info, I'll probably have to just drop the dime on one of these.

USA Made for the cost of a Rough Rider. You can't beat that!!

And if they're carbon to boot, that's just gravy.

Let us know if that Spey starts to patina. Thanks much for the info.
 
TLC, congratulations for the good buy.:thumbup:

I've got 2 of these from SMKW about 2 years ago or so. Both had blades which were visibly ground down from the side to nice thin blades (as compared to the tang section).
One had a still visible tang stamp : "Carbon V".
My guess is, those were made of blades left over and ground down from blades produced for Cold Steel stockmans.

Fit and finish varied, one of the knives was very nice, the other less so.
Nice users for the money.
 
Well, that just seals it. I have a couple of the Cold Steel variants, and like the blade shapes.

I like the handle material on these even better. The Black Delrin on the CSs is a little drab for my taste....
 
Sharpthangs said:
The Black Delrin on the CSs is a little drab for my taste....
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Yep, that's a good part of why I have never bought one. Black Delrin just looks to "plastic".....if that makes sense?
 
Snap !

I got one of these from a dealer in a bunch of Camillus factory seconds....last year.

But, I have looked very close at the stockman and cannot find anything wrong with it.

These are listed as stainless..... but I think they must have made some carbon as well at some point in time, because mine has a nice grey patina on it now, after being stored in the draw since last summer.

nice knife ! and scary sharp too. In the same batch I got a baby rosewood stockman and a barlow.
 
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