"Old Knives"

[Mike Robuck]

Great score Paul. Wishing you many years of use.

 

[waynorth]

Seriously, how sweet that is Charlie and endlessly precious.

This knife in some form has been posted many times here before, John Augie and Charlie waynorth have posted theirs before as those wonderful images are locked into my head. Well, after 6+ years I was lucky enough to get one of my very own

A Schrade Walden 710 Farmers Jack, and I am soooo happy to have and now carry one. I LOVE this knife and treasure it as much as Charlie and Lyle's version through GEC. I (along with many, many others) have those two to thank for introducing me to the pattern and it is one of my favorite patterns in traditional knives. This version is slightly bigger and I'm guessing by maybe a 1/4" other owners can correct me if I'm wrong, I just don't have a tape measure near me to confirm.

This is not pristine so it allows me to carry, use and enjoy on a regular basis. The spey is down but the pruner appears near full, the covers vary from side to side in color and have one slight imperfection but no pin cracks but still I absolutely love this knife and I FINALLY have the pleasure of owning one for my time left on this planet so l just hope I get 20/25 yrs of use out of it

Use it in good health, Paul!!

 

[Augie]

Seriously, how sweet that is Charlie and endlessly precious.

This knife in some form has been posted many times here before, John Augie and Charlie waynorth have posted theirs before as those wonderful images are locked into my head. Well, after 6+ years I was lucky enough to get one of my very own

A Schrade Walden 710 Farmers Jack, and I am soooo happy to have and now carry one. I LOVE this knife and treasure it as much as Charlie and Lyle's version through GEC. I (along with many, many others) have those two to thank for introducing me to the pattern and it is one of my favorite patterns in traditional knives. This version is slightly bigger and I'm guessing by maybe a 1/4" other owners can correct me if I'm wrong, I just don't have a tape measure near me to confirm.

This is not pristine so it allows me to carry, use and enjoy on a regular basis. The spey is down but the pruner appears near full, the covers vary from side to side in color and have one slight imperfection but no pin cracks but still I absolutely love this knife and I FINALLY have the pleasure of owning one for my time left on this planet so l just hope I get 20/25 yrs of use out of it

Great Farmers Jack Paul, glad you finally got one, hope you enjoy it for many years,

 

[Augie]

Picked up this 3 3/4"Congress, the only 4 blade 3 3/4" Congress knives I can find in the book are the R6073 and R6083. This knife has no pattern number stamp.
Overall in decent shape, tight good snap, no blade rub surprisingly because it's such a slim narrow package, the mains are heavily crinked to fit. It does have wear at the tang on the sheepsfoot blade causing it to open too far but it still has good snap.
Can't say I've seen this 3 3/4" Remington all that often.

 

[ed_is_dead]

Picked up this 3 3/4"Congress, the only 4 blade 3 3/4" Congress knives I can find in the book are the R6073 and R6083. This knife has no pattern number stamp.
Overall in decent shape, tight good snap, no blade rub surprisingly because it's such a slim narrow package, the mains are heavily crinked to fit. It does have wear at the tang on the sheepsfoot blade causing it to open too far but it still has good snap.
Can't say I've seen this 3 3/4" Remington all that often.


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Thats real nice and I love that it's had the use it has. Would it be possible the previous owner was a lefty?

 

[waynorth]

I thought I'd post some Yellow knives. Delrin (or celluloid?), seems to make a durable utility handle, as we all know. I searched but didn't find a "Yeller" or "Yellow" handle thread, so I thought I'd put them here, and appeal for help from all my friends here.
I hate starting a thread that's already been done!! Anyone?????

A Case XX CV Florist's knife with a handy bail, a good old CV Sodbuster, and a useful Camillus Stockman! Serious knives for various work, with a Flair!!

 

[Un-Chained]

Sunny Yellow ___day (Traditionals only, please)

"The last of my yellow knives ..." Is that a temporary situation, or no plans to acquire more? :D That really depends on what I run across and what my tastes are at the time;)

www.bladeforums.com

It’s the only “yeller-ish” thread I know of Charlie

 

[waynorth]

Schrade Walden (RIP) Stockman knives with Yellow handles!! Some bareheads with reinforced pivot pins (birdseye rivets)! Sturdy knives, well made and useful!!

 

[waynorth]

It’s the only “yeller-ish” thread I know of Charlie

Wonderful!! Thanks, Gus!!

 

[Un-Chained]

You’re always welcome my friend

 

[Primble]

Charlie,

I think I like the Schrade Yeller handled ones the best. Schrade made some really high quality knives in my opinion. I used to know a Sheriff here in my home county that collected Yeller handled knives and only Yeller handled knives. He was getting up in years and kept them in knife rolls in the Sheriff's Office safe. When I would come by to visit, from time to time, he would head to the safe to pull out the knife rolls and tell me to look through them and tell him what I thought. I used to joke with him that he must own most of the Yeller knives, as he called them, in the whole state of Kentucky. Every knife he had was nice. He has since passed away and I often wonder what became of all of his Yeller knives, which he seemed so proud to have. He was a soft spoken man, much like yourself, well liked in the community, and he loved knives. Every time I see a Yeller handled knife, I think of him. He would have loved your Yeller knives. I am sure.

 

[waynorth]

He was a soft spoken man, much like yourself, well liked in the community, and he loved knives.

Please tell my wife, Rob!!
Nice little vignette!!

 

[danno50]

As usual, a lot of amazing knives have been posted in the last month or so.
Nice yellows, Charlie.

Here is the only yellow one I have that fits in the Old Knives thread. A Schrade made Keen Kutter peanut. I really like old yellow celluloid. This one was gifted to me by
Lloyd Luger1952 .

 

[tongueriver]

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[tongueriver]

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[danno50]

I thought I'd post some Yellow knives. Delrin (or celluloid?), seems to make a durable utility handle, as we all know. I searched but didn't find a "Yeller" or "Yellow" handle thread, so I thought I'd put them here, and appeal for help from all my friends here.
I hate starting a thread that's already been done!! Anyone?????

A Case XX CV Florist's knife with a handy bail, a good old CV Sodbuster, and a useful Camillus Stockman! Serious knives for various work, with a Flair!! View attachment 1744196

Turns out there was one that just resurfaced to page one:

Sunny Yellow ___day (Traditionals only, please)

We have a Black Friday, Stag Saturday, Micarta Monday, Wooden Wednesday ... How about a Sunny Yellow _any_day, to show off our Traditional Classic/Venerable/"Old Yeller" Yellows? Sorry I don't have any classic old names or rare patterns with yellow covers top start things off. :( I do have a...

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OOPS, just looked the the last page of the above thread and saw that you already found it, Charlie.

 

[eisman]

Let me start by saying I really like the looks of that knife. But this photo screams "counterfeit" for multiple reasons. IMHO that blade was never original to that knife.

 

[ed_is_dead]

Let me start by saying I really like the looks of that knife. But this photo screams "counterfeit" for multiple reasons. IMHO that blade was never original to that knife.

Love to hear you thoughts.
As I only own users if it were mine I'd pien the top edge down so it met the top edge of the spring.

With the spring sunken I assumed the PO never oiled the joints and wore the cam/spring. I speculated he was a left hander in my last post too. That or the pin was bent.
Either way a beautiful knife I'd love to use.

 

[ed_is_dead]

Geirg

A classy item that Unchained , love a swedge terminating at a long pull. Sounds weird when you say that!

A new arrival I'm minding. It took a little work to make serviceable but the two of us are doing work all day together







I can find squat on the maker. No Thomas in Tweedale's. My guess this is Sheffield made for a company called J Thomas but that's a wild stab in the dark and await correction.
Either way it a very nice thing to use.
Question: should I reattach a shield or leave as is? I'm on the fence. I believe the original may have been oval.

I don't believe it ever had a shield, ed!! Also, I'd probably do some research on your rare knife before I would use it!

A big thanks to Will for finding this info, cheers my friend.
Great history to this cutler, seems he diversified out of the business and started one which was the progenitor of Excelsior Motorcycles!

 

[lambertiana]

Love to hear you thoughts.
As I only own users if it were mine I'd pien the top edge down so it met the top edge of the spring.

With the spring sunken I assumed the PO never oiled the joints and wore the cam/spring. I speculated he was a left hander in my last post too. That or the pin was bent.
Either way a beautiful knife I'd love to use.

The blade sits proud of the bolster. And the blade has deep pitting (which has been buffed off most of the tang stamp and blade but not the spine) but the backsprings show no corrosion. Those are red flags