"Old Knives"

I am with you Lambertiana my friend, Augie- that Miller Bros is down right gorgeous! Beautiful Pic Bone on that Jack, I have not ever seen a Swedge like that form any Manufacturer Augie- I wonder if it was a wee tweak done by it's loving owner?

Mike, that Ulster is something special- very nice Classic stunning work by Ulster Knife Co!

R8shell, Man....that old Lobster is something else - love everything about it- the Knife so well used and looked after that the Pic Bone is almost a natural over time second cut Bone! Great to see!
 
Campbellclanman said:
I am with you Lambertiana my friend, Augie- that Miller Bros is down right gorgeous! Beautiful Pic Bone on that Jack, I have not ever seen a Swedge like that form any Manufacturer Augie- I wonder if it was a wee tweak done by it's loving owner?

Mike, that Ulster is something special- very nice Classic stunning work by Ulster Knife Co!

R8shell, Man....that old Lobster is something else - love everything about it- the Knife so well used and looked after that the Pic Bone is almost a natural over time second cut Bone! Great to see!
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Thank you all, appreciate it.

Duncan that thought crossed my mind on the swedge, if so it must have been done a long time ago as the blade finish on both sides matches perfectly and the spine is straight and even.
 
Ok now here is something different, the knife is a Scharde Walden and with it is a Forman's booklet showing measurements of the parts of the knife. Cover dated July 6th, 1931. Check out the pages and how they fit the knife. Also, we are familiar with what a Washington bolster is but check out what he is calling the bolster on this pattern. We call it a rat tail, but he calls it a Jefferson bolster!! Way freekin cool.IMG_1209.jpgIMG_1210.jpgIMG_1211.jpgIMG_1212.jpgIMG_1214.jpgIMG_1213.jpg
 
galvanic1882 said:
OK, now here is something different, the knife is a Scharde Walden and with it is a Foreman's booklet showing measurements of the parts of the knife.
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Great pairing of the booklet and the knife, Mike!!👍

Small detail; I've always been of the opinion that Schrade made the "Hawkbill" very pointy when calling it a pruning blade, and ground a small flat on the tip, when it was intended for an electrician (a wire-stripping blade)!!! Any opinion on that??
. . . . . . . .Anyone??
 
Not really sure what you mean?? I always thought all of the hawks that were made by any company were interchangeable in their intended use??
 
If you look at the tip of your pruner above, you will see a 1/8 to 3/16 " tip that looks like the remnant of a "flattened" tip!! Most pruners have a very sharp tip. I have seen both on mint/unsharpened Schrade Hawkbills!! I had one and posted pics showing the difference, but no longer have the knife or pics!!
 
waynorth said:
Great pairing of the booklet and the knife, Mike!!👍

Small detail; I've always been of the opinion that Schrade made the "Hawkbill" very pointy when calling it a pruning blade, and ground a small flat on the tip, when it was intended for an electrician (a wire-stripping blade)!!! Any opinion on that??
. . . . . . . .Anyone??
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Charlie you are correct, same blade just different treatment of the tip for different jobs. The lineman's knives also usually had a shackle (or at least a hole for one) while the horticultural hawkbills didn't. The old Schrade Cut Co catalogs actually had the same model number for both knives with the only difference being the abbreviation "SHA" added to the number to differentiate the lineman's knife.

Great pics Mike! That Jefferson bolster identifier really blows my mind. I wonder if that was the common name for it across cutlery companies.

Eric
 
ea42 said:
Charlie you are correct, same blade just different treatment of the tip for different jobs. The lineman's knives also usually had a shackle (or at least a hole for one) while the horticultural hawkbills didn't. The old Schrade Cut Co catalogs actually had the same model number for both knives with the only difference being the abbreviation "SHA" added to the number to differentiate the lineman's knife.

Great pics Mike! That Jefferson bolster identifier really blows my mind. I wonder if that was the common name for it across cutlery companies.

Eric
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Wow!! I am not hallucinating after all!!! Thanks Eric!! I'll remember (SHA)!! For shackle, I assume!!

And, a Jefferson Bolster!!! Someone besides me also thought of George when they encountered the Washington Bolster, and switched to Jefferson!!
The Washington was actually named after a Street in Sheffield - the address of Joseph Rodgers; not George Washington!!
 
galvanic1882 said:
The knife has been used and I think the tip might have had some of it sharpened or broken off?? View attachment 2372859
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Mike they purposely rounded the tip on the lineman's knives at the factory. Probably to make it easier to skin the wires as well as to keep from stabbing things with that needle hawkill tip. Here's a pic of a factory blade on a slightly later model, note the tip. Your knife would have been made right after the switch to Schrade Walden so your handles would be the same as the one in the catalog and the book:
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Eric
 
ea42 said:
Mike they purposely rounded the tip on the lineman's knives at the factory. Probably to make it easier to skin the wires as well as to keep from stabbing things with that needle hawkill tip. Here's a pic of a factory blade on a slightly later model, note the tip. Your knife would have been made right after the switch to Schrade Walden so your handles would be the same as the one in the catalog and the book:
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Eric
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Great Eric thanks👍👍
 
ea42 said:
Mike they purposely rounded the tip on the lineman's knives at the factory. Probably to make it easier to skin the wires as well as to keep from stabbing things with that needle hawkill tip. Here's a pic of a factory blade on a slightly later model, note the tip. Your knife would have been made right after the switch to Schrade Walden so your handles would be the same as the one in the catalog and the book:
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Eric
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Nice example Eric!!!
 
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