Old Parker & Son M-1398 Half Congress

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Gary W. Graley

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Picked this one up a few years ago at the Lewisburg PA knife show, they host one there each year in Feb. I liked the overall look of the knife, here's a 3 1/2" frame knife, but the blades are just barely over 1 1/2" long each, making for expert control of the blade tips. I'm starting to take more interest in wood carving and I think this one handles very nice indeed.

Has a bit of stag glued in place for covers, long bolsters and single back spring.

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The walk and talk on both blades are good, pretty light on the pull but not too light. Both blades took a very keen edge, well, I guess they ought to, since they are Surgical Steel ;)

I'd love to see GEC do something along this line up, seems when you have a 3 1/2" frame, most want to fill that up with as long a blade as they can, and toss in a small blade for extra measure. It's ok, but this as I say handles pretty nice.

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