Pick Bone/Pickbone Handle Material

Modoc ED

Modoc ED

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Hi fellas. I'm posting this thread here as I believe it pertains to Schrade knives as well and others but mostly Scharade.

I have seen the descriptive term pick bone or pickbone used to describe the bone handles of quite a few knives but mostly Schrade knives.

Isn't pick bone or pickbone just another way to say jigged bone or is it a specific/special pattern?

Anyone got a picture of a knife with pick bone or pickbone handles and is it two words or one word?

Just goes to show that us old (68) dogs don't have all the answers.
 
I believe that the top pic here is full blown pick bone jigging by anyone's standard. The middle pic I would call pick bone. The bottom pic is clearly Schrade peach seed jigging.

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just call me slow but thanks to the below photos have figured out why they call it peach seed. duh the intentions look like little seeds. i do hope that is correct?
 
tongueriver said:
The creator jigs peach pits to make them look like knife handles.

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Nice examples Cal. And ow who is being elucidative? Delmas2nd, me thinks you need to up your caffeine intake. :D

Ed, I believe the original Schrade Cut Co peacheed jigged bone came about in the 1920's, and was used into the 1950's. There was also composite material they jigged in the same style.
 
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I kinda figured it (pick bone) was Schrade's way of saying Jigged.

The reason I asked was that I have a post-2004 Schrade knife (made by GEC and commissioned by Taylor) whose label describes the handles as being pick bone.
 
Those fire and ice series GEC made are nice knives too. The genuine bone handled Schrade made knives were termed bone stag in their sales literature, regardless of the jigging styles. Non bone versions were labeled as "stagged". I think pick bone and peachseed were terms collectors came up with later to describe the different jigging styles. Taylor made knives may have these collectors terms associated with them for sure. The GEC made knife would probably be more of an attempt at peachseed more than it looks like what would be considered pick bone.
 
You may be right about the bone pattern on the GEC made Schrade knife Hal. Here's a picture of the pile side handle on the knife I have. As always, GEC did/does a superb job with their bone.

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I know this is an old thread but I just recently came across a knife described as having "pretty peach seed bovine bone" handles that have an uneven pattern of "jigging". It is an L.F.& C. penknife. Turns out some much more experienced and knowledgable people than me say that "pic-bone" (yet another form of the term) is in reference to the actual handmade process of picking or gouging at bone by hand that has an irregular (but in my opinion, more beautiful) jigged pattern before the invention and more uniformed style of jigging machines. However, this is still apparently up for debate. IMHO, I tend to side with the belief that pic-bone/pickbone/pick bone is indeed a lost art that came before jigging machines.
 
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