"Old Knives"

Lostball said:
Kevin, this makes at least the second and maybe third knife that you've shown that I've never seen anything like before. Keep 'em coming!!!
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Thanks LB :thumbsup: I'd like to say that knife is wonderfully constructed but honestly it feels pretty cheaply made in hand; the blades do snap but the handles feel like formed tin LoL. I think I only spent $10 on it so that's pretty reasonable for a piece of history :)
 
Augie said:
Picked up this Eye Witness timber scribe, love the stag and the blade stamp, did not see much use, still in great shape. Shown with my guard cat Mabel.
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A very nice example of TEW craftsmanship. The irony of Mabel's implied approval of this tool was not lost on me, BTW. My cat also has some skill with a set of inbuilt timber scribes, used at times to mark the furniture....
 
waynorth said:
This knife was posted recently, and I bought it from the poster!! Thanks Mike!!
Made by Napanoch before WWI, it has been respectfully maintained!!
Very well made, it has good lock-up, and beautiful bone handles with hammered rivets.
I suspect Napanoch was known for their beautiful blade grinds, first, from what I have seen, and second, they were commissioned to make knives for several companies.
This knife is marked Pacific Hardware and Steel. Their main location was in San Francisco.
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I brought the knife above forward, to further illustrate and compare Napanoch's skill in matters Cutlery.
The knife below is marked Napanoch, and obviously made by them in their short pre-WWI existence. This HJ below reminds me of an errant Tomcat that I once knew. It had a torn ear, and a scar across one eye, among various other memories of battles lost and won. It would disappear for a few days, then come home to my friend's house to lick its wounds and eat easy food!
This knife functions perfectly, despite its 100+ years of age. Snaps good, has nice readable stamps, and a good slightly short punch that I just used to size an old belt (in the good direction!).
Simple, as opposed to the high-class knife above, it just oozes old-fashioned goodness!
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Thanks Duncan! I thought you would like that one! You have probably noticed that the Napanoch punch (pat'd 04/07/08) is the one I used in HJ5, in 2011!!
I used this old one today to cut another hole in my old belt!!:rolleyes:
In the good direction - smaller!!:D
 
waynorth said:
Thanks Duncan! I thought you would like that one! You have probably noticed that the Napanoch punch (pat'd 04/07/08) is the one I used in HJ5, in 2011!!
I used this old one today to cut another hole in my old belt!!:rolleyes:
In the good direction - smaller!!:D
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Thanks Charlie for that- yes - picked up on the Punch- but was THIS the actual Knife that you modeled the HJ5 Punch from? for some reason I picture a different older HJ from what you modeled the HJ5 Punch from?
Apologies in advance if I am wrong with this.
 
Heh! I think it was a different one.:rolleyes:
But I can't remember!!:eek::oops:
Gettin' old don'tcha know!!;)
 
As usual so many awesome old knives posted since my last visit - just love the variety :thumbsup: :thumbsup: ....

Here's a Southington MOP Swell-End Jack at 3 & 3/8" closed so those are some decent slabs of MOP on this fancy jack :cool:... almost seems too nice of a jack to carry around in your pocket ;) ...

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Very nice Pearl Jack, Lee! Early knives like that ping my heart strings!!
 
Just a treat to see a Southingtion pearl ;):) Thanks for the Beauty, LongBlade :thumbsup: I hear 2001: A Space Odyssey music intro when I look at the bottom bolster and the moon shield :D
 
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