"Old Knives"

[rockman0]

Thanks Duncan, that matchstrike and long swage pried my wallet open

Rob- What a Beauty! Love the way that Matchstrike is off track! Lovely Main blade my friend with Wicked Swage work!

Thanks Ed, It may be unused so I won't sharpen and use it, factory edge is still nice and sharp

There's a touch of something about that knife, been looking at it and it has that just right vibe that I always find hard to verbalise when proportions and build are "just so".
Grinds look real crisp and thin at the edge, will you sharpen and use it Rockman?

Thanks Barbababa, interesting thought but I have no idea if it was intentional or not.

Could the match strike be done like that on purpose? Maybe it´s easier to "start" the match stick from that gap?
Lovely knife with that thick MOP

Remington sure had beautiful bone
Welcome back!

@thedonald & @ISKRA
These good ‘ole bone handled jacks are Remington R1823 models, made in the thirties from memory and lurvely indeed.
They were factory ink stamped.
The couple of examples I own are slightly different in build and dimensions. One is all-iron and flatter, the other has brass liners and is slightly slimmer, yet rounder on the whole.
Here’s a shot of the duo together…
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Great show ALL !!
I’ve got lots of catching up to do here…
Duncan’s handy work is holding me up, willingly of course!!
JohnDF’s Hollinger jack!!
Cal’s brass Southington looks sublime!!
John’s first Remi Bullet is quite a score and Lloyd’s Schrade Cut Co. haul is mawvellous ain’t it ??
Rob, Charlie, Northshore, and others…
I’m hot on your trails!!

Thanks Charlie

Nice Pearly knife, Rob!!

 

[Un-Chained]

Thanks Rob,
what a pearly with all those wunderful lines… score!
Paul’s Craftsman and Western are just… WOW!!
Mike R’s American S&K… just dreamy!!

 

[TheChunk91]

Wow, I love both the Ulster and that Western Paul!
Sears certainly channelled some seriously great knives!
That Western is simply drop dead gorgeous !!

Thanks Duncan. Both are well made, and the western has notably smooth blade action.

 

[Campbellclanman]

I would very much like to experience that first hand Paul my friend - as would everyone else here- that Western is really nice!

Gus, good to see you here my friend, Lovely additions as per always - two very nice examples.

I certainly learnt something about those Remington Jacks - that the Shield treatment is fairly common! There's no doubt Remington were at the top at one stage of their extremely nice Knives and quality build, hence us now always grabbing them if we are ever lucky enough to come across them!

I love this Thread!

 

[Un-Chained]

Campbellclanman
Thank you as always my friend !
Wunderful work on that Lockwood Bros. & I*XL Barlow too

 

[Campbellclanman]

LOL, Well not really, I do wish I took a photo of the train wreck of the Lockwood Bros. before I did anything, the knife is never going to be the same- the Liners are bowed from the Blade being forced out when the pin broke and resting on a 45% degree angle- with the remainder of the Pin still lodged in firmly on the other side - I am just so pleased now that the Knife actually works again, and so well from where it was.
Gus, What I would love is to be near someone who does work like our friend Glenn, just to see the actual techniques- and also the gear used, it would click into place seeing the greats doing their thing.

A reprofile of a Blade isnt clever is it - its Fun! Thank you my friend!

 

[North Shore]

I haven't posted here in awhile but just got this survivor Sears and Roebuck stag dogleg jack with a cool etch and a wharncliffe secondary, milled/coined nickel silver liners that I had to share. Like this one a lot, I also have a stockman from the same time period but its in storage currently. Unfortunately the previous owner marred the shield up for some reason but its part of the knife's story.

 

[Mike Robuck]

That's a great pattern that's well executed with the coined liners and that nice stag. Who do you think made it for Sears?

 

[Campbellclanman]

That’s a real nice one North Shore.
I saw that one! A nice 1930’s Sta-Sharp by Camillus.

 

[North Shore]

That’s a real nice one North Shore.
I saw that one! A nice 1930’s Sta-Sharp by Camillus.

Thank you, I have seen your other examples that is how I knew what it was to be interested in it. I have the stockman described in the catalog that is cut off.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Another beauty! Look at that Stag!!!! What a pair they make!!

 

[North Shore]

Another beauty! Look at that Stag!!!! What a pair they make!!

Yes, I need a picture of the 7065 in better light and hope to get the two of them for a picture in the same frame in the near future. The stockman is in my storage for the time being, in the process of preparing my current place to sell and recently got the dogleg in the mail.

 

[Barbababa]

Just finished with this Emil Olsson no:30 in MOP. I gave it a squeeze in the hydraulic press to get rid of a small wiggle in the small blade, cleaned and polished it up and gave the blades an acid-wash.

https://imgur.com/9U5YGfi

It´s not the most lifeful MOP but it´s nice anyway

https://imgur.com/WgIqNQ8

The man himself: Fredrik Emil Olsson *1872 †1928

https://imgur.com/eHN2pcy

I would buy a knife from a guy with a moustache like that any day

 

[Barbababa]

Oh, might I ask... would it be totaly crazy giving the corkscrew an acid-wash too, to match the blades?

 

[North Shore]

Kind of an interesting old barlow here, hard to date as it seems older than 1890 with the Sheffield stamp. has a lot of things going for it in my opinion WYETH stamped beveled bolster, square joints, dont see too many stag barlows, sheeps foot blade with ground swedges

 

[waynorth]

Kind of an interesting old barlow here, hard to date as it seems older than 1890 with the Sheffield stamp. has a lot of things going for it in my opinion WYETH stamped beveled bolster, square joints, dont see too many stag barlows, sheeps foot blade with ground swedgesView attachment 1651584View attachment 1651585View attachment 1651586View attachment 1651587

Nice old Barlow!!!

 

[Campbellclanman]

If anyone would would know a good Ol Barlow......


Northshore my friend,

 

[JohnDF]

So this is where you've been hiding... I'd wondered where you'd gotten off to.

 

[Gevonovich]

If anyone would would know a good Ol Barlow......


Northshore my friend,

$1.59 then...now $159.00

 

[coolbreezy37]

https://flic.kr/p/2mwEf87

WW2 Case M3
Vietnam Era Kabar
Both my father’s from his military days