Rare warehouse find...Shapleigh Hardware and Kruis bros.

navihawk

navihawk

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You've all seen this warehouse find in your favorite catalog. I bought this knife and a Kruis Bros. knife with the same claim.
Does anyone have these knives?I can't help thinking these knives were disassembled or made out of parts. The master blade and sheepsfoot on the Shapleigh look like the edge has 5-10% of it ground off. If you look at the point on the master it doesn't look symetrical, and the blade on a spearpoint usually is level with the kick, right?
The Kruis bros. has ivory handles that are barely 1/8 of an inch. It is almost like someone rehandled them with piano keys.The master blade says Gen. antique ivory engraved ito it.I would appreciate anyones expert opinions on this or tell me I'm nuts:eek:.I really like the fit and finish of the Shapleigh,both shields are pinned and the bone is beautiful.I may use it for EDC.
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here's another pic of the Shapleigh.It also has a new blade etch and the blades almost look tumbled.The choils are ground though, making me believe it's not a fake, just reconditioned.
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Those warehouse finds are amazing are they not. ;) Seems like I hear of a new one once a month or so. :D.

Regardless of the actual "find" or origin, the ones I have seen seem to be OK if not better than that and again just speaking for the ones I have seen, seem to be priced very fairly.
 
Navihawk,

May I ask where you got the Shapleigh knife? It looks interesting, I may want to pick one up myself if there are any more.
 
kamagong said:
Navihawk,

May I ask where you got the Shapleigh knife? It looks interesting, I may want to pick one up myself if there are any more.
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They probably don't carry them anymore, but I got it at SMKW's

It really is a nice knife.Fit and finish are superb.I just think the blade was too thin.It should be wider like a scout blade.Maybe I'm too picky.
 
I got 2 of those Shapleighs a few years ago. Came with a "will buy back with profit" guarantee by Col. Jim Parker too, for all that it is worth now.

For what they may or may not be, I thought that they were well made with good fit and finish and walk and talk. Seemed to be better than most of my current factory slippies. The bone is gorgeous on both of mine.

Yeah, I love mine too.
 
airyq said:
I got 2 of those Shapleighs a few years ago. Came with a "will buy back with profit" guarantee by Col. Jim Parker too, for all that it is worth now.

For what they may or may not be, I thought that they were well made with good fit and finish and walk and talk. Seemed to be better than most of my current factory slippies. The bone is gorgeous on both of mine.

Yeah, I love mine too.
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Is your master blade like mine?dimentionally speaking,looks like a little of the belly missing? Other than that it is great.Can you post pics of yours?
 
What's this pattern called? I would love it if a company offered a knife like this, especially with jigged bone like the one on your knife.
 
navihawk,

My master blades are just like your's. The knives look identical, does this say some thing about the manufacturing quality?

I am now working abroad, my knives are back in my home country, so I am not able to post any pics. Will try to take some on my next visit home.
 
Those look a lot like the knives Jim Parker was selling some years ago as "factory warehouse finds". Parker bought the rights to a bunch of old brand names and ressurected many of them. One of them was Shapleigh, and the Krusius Bros. name was often mentioned in ads as the source of the knives. The names were put on knives he had produced in Germany, probably by Olbertz. I have a small whittler marked J Pritzlaff Cactus Brand that has identical construction to the Krusius Bros knife shown above, very thin ivory scales that are applied over a black backing. Not a bad knife, but hardly a warehouse find from the 1950s.
 
Arathol said:
Those look a lot like the knives Jim Parker was selling some years ago as "factory warehouse finds". Parker bought the rights to a bunch of old brand names and ressurected many of them. One of them was Shapleigh, and the Krusius Bros. name was often mentioned in ads as the source of the knives. The names were put on knives he had produced in Germany, probably by Olbertz. I have a small whittler marked J Pritzlaff Cactus Brand that has identical construction to the Krusius Bros knife shown above, very thin ivory scales that are applied over a black backing. Not a bad knife, but hardly a warehouse find from the 1950s.
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Thanks for the info.The Kruis seems to be made very well.The thing that bugs me about it is that the master blade and scissors are farly beefy against the thin scales. Looks like the pin could move if treated roughly.
airyg said:
navihawk,

My master blades are just like your's. The knives look identical, does this say some thing about the manufacturing quality?

I am now working abroad, my knives are back in my home country, so I am not able to post any pics. Will try to take some on my next visit home.
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Thanks. Makes me like the knife even more.It's going in my pocket tomorrow also.
 
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