Gary W. Graley
“Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
- Joined
- Mar 2, 1999
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I'm pretty much a stainless guy and folks sometimes need to be reminded...it's stain LESS not stain NEVER, even our stainless folders can get some character spots on them if we don't maintain them.
I had a nice collection of GEC folders and a few Case CV ones as well, but found I needed to be on top of them to keep them sharp, they would take a really nice edge but in a short time lose it. My stainless seem to take and keep it longer, could be the very fine edge would degrade even sitting in ambient air, to the point that just a strop on the leather would bring it tune it up, but sometimes it needed to go back to the fine stone and then strop. So I no longer have those knives, just got very tired of that and I am REALLY not a patina kinda of guy
That being said, I do have a very old folder, well old to me, made back in the early 1930's or so, pearl scales, two bladed and obviously carbon blades. Both blades were ground down to almost a zero bevel kind of edge, they really cut well ! and I just took it out of the drawer the other night and both blades were still super sharp, so it seems some carbon blades can keep their edge while others can lose it...not sure why.
Here are some images of the knife;
Charlie Noyes gave me the who on that folder:
PINE KNOT
A brand name of Belknap Hardware of Louisville, KY.
Goins says 1930 - 1940.
Some of the Pine Knot knives were, reportedly, made by Robeson.
Pretty nice little folder, one that a close friend in FL gave me a few years ago.
G2
I had a nice collection of GEC folders and a few Case CV ones as well, but found I needed to be on top of them to keep them sharp, they would take a really nice edge but in a short time lose it. My stainless seem to take and keep it longer, could be the very fine edge would degrade even sitting in ambient air, to the point that just a strop on the leather would bring it tune it up, but sometimes it needed to go back to the fine stone and then strop. So I no longer have those knives, just got very tired of that and I am REALLY not a patina kinda of guy
That being said, I do have a very old folder, well old to me, made back in the early 1930's or so, pearl scales, two bladed and obviously carbon blades. Both blades were ground down to almost a zero bevel kind of edge, they really cut well ! and I just took it out of the drawer the other night and both blades were still super sharp, so it seems some carbon blades can keep their edge while others can lose it...not sure why.
Here are some images of the knife;
Charlie Noyes gave me the who on that folder:
PINE KNOT
A brand name of Belknap Hardware of Louisville, KY.
Goins says 1930 - 1940.
Some of the Pine Knot knives were, reportedly, made by Robeson.
Pretty nice little folder, one that a close friend in FL gave me a few years ago.
G2