Ontario Knife Pics!

[onehikes]

The Ontario Quartermaster P3 was always one on my favorite sheath knives, very sturdy blade with a great grip and sheath.

 

[Blue Sky]

Nice, Ontario did some good work on their presentation handles.

 

[qmether]

 

[sopwithcamelus]

The Ontario Quartermaster P3 was always one on my favorite sheath knives, very sturdy blade with a great grip and sheath.
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I have a Seneca with the stacked leather handle and stag pommel. Some of their most beautiful knives were the Quartermaster, Mark I, Parachutist, Seneca, Cayuga, and Keuka.

 

[qmether]

 

[fieryimp]

 

[spike116]

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That mater didn’t have a chance

 

[BigAl62]

Top to bottom:
SP-10 Raider Bowie
SP-6 Fighting Knife
SP-1 Combat Knife
SP-12 Tanto
SP-17 Quartermaster
A pair of 498 Marine Combat Knives
Left side:
A pair of 499 Aircrew Survival Knives
Right side:
Mark III Trench Knife

 

[BigAl62]

Can anybody enlighten me about OKC's change from a "stamped" tang stamp to a "printed" tang stamp? I'm sure it was a cost-saving thing but does anybody know when the change occurred? Was it only used on the SP series?

 

[Blue Sky]

In the sticky thread two below this one, Mr. Maragni posted something that might help:

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Attention Post in thread 'Ask Ontario'

Aug 15, 2022

Sorry about the delay in answering these questions, I was waiting to hear back from Ontario.

Mr. Billy the Hungry- Ontario does not recommend removing the safety mechanism from the RAT-1 assisted opener. The knife does have a detent and will work like a manual RAT if the spring is inoperative but the action will be stiffer than the manual RAT. Thank you for your suggestion to offer a regular RAT with G-10 scales and I have passed on your idea to the appropriate people.

Mr. zannussi01- All OKC3S bayonets are now laser etched and I'm not sure when Ontario began to laser etch their blades...

• Dan Maragni

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There might be more info in that thread.

 

[BigAl62]

In the sticky thread two below this one, Mr. Maragni posted something that might help:

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Attention Post in thread 'Ask Ontario'

Aug 15, 2022

Sorry about the delay in answering these questions, I was waiting to hear back from Ontario.

Mr. Billy the Hungry- Ontario does not recommend removing the safety mechanism from the RAT-1 assisted opener. The knife does have a detent and will work like a manual RAT if the spring is inoperative but the action will be stiffer than the manual RAT. Thank you for your suggestion to offer a regular RAT with G-10 scales and I have passed on your idea to the appropriate people.

Mr. zannussi01- All OKC3S bayonets are now laser etched and I'm not sure when Ontario began to laser etch their blades...

• Dan Maragni

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There might be more info in that thread.

Actually I did find a bit more in that thread. I said “printed” in my original post but I should have said “laser etched.” It looks like it wasn’t a cost-saving thing - rather it appears that stamping may have been considered potentially damaging to a powder coated blade. If I read it correctly, powder coating requires deeper stamping which can damage the blade. As I think more about it, I have a few powder coated Kabar knives where the tang stamp is not as crisp as it is on an uncoated blade. I assume the powder coating fills in the stamp some.

So that info was from a post in the summer of 2018 so laser etching must go back at least 6 years?

Thanks for putting me onto that thread.

 

[Blue Sky]

The was some discussion and anecdotes shared in the past about about blades breaking through the engraving. The conclusion was the stamping created stress in the blades. Must have been something to it, the stamping went away. The time frame of the change-over was probably spread out, so hard to pin down. I can’t help much there, I’m afraid.