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Schatt & Morgan Improved Muskrat

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Schatt has just released a set of 4 of these Improved Muskrats. I know these have another name but it complete eludes me. These are 3"&15/16" closed, lined rounded bolsters, keystone shield and brass liners. Blades are their standard 420HC, the Turkish clip blade has a long pull, the Wharncliffe blade has a standard nail nick that faces the pile side. No half stops, but the F&F is everything I expect from the S&M line. I would give the spring tension about a 3&1/2 to 4 out of 10.
Pictured is the Winterbottom bone, but also is a standard jigged brown bone, a Amber Wormgroove & a Fireoak bone.

Anyway this seems like a good place for a RAT thread :D
So jump on in.
Dave
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"Hawbaker"

Nice lookin' but I could do without the etch and with an upgrade on the steel. Still, it's a looker and I bet it'd be just fine employed for most daily tasks.
 
I like that Wharncliffe idea, unusual on that pattern.

Nice Winterbottom bone there but don't like all that etching and No.s all over the blades:eek:

If it were carbon, patina would take care of that etching but does anybody know how to get rid of etches on stainless please?

Thanks.
 
Queen Spey 'Rat' in Cocobolo in D2

I prefer it to the regular Rat as it has the spey.
Thin with a single spring, well made.

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Hmmm I have muskrats but I have honestly never seen one in the woods (Alligators must be too quick for them to live in our neck of the woods). Great knives and a fun thread...

Sunburst

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a couple Case/Bose additions..
 
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neeman said:
Queen call it a Special Muskrat
It is on a serpentine pattern single spring

What is the difference?
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Neeman,

Ordinarily a "Muskrat" has two slim clip blades on either end of a stockman style frame.

The "Hawbaker" type muskrat replaces the secondary clip blade with a wharncliffe or lambfoot style blade.

A "Moose" is ordinarily a larger, stouter knife also based upon a stockman frame. It normally has a stout clip blade (master) and a spey blade as the secondary blade. (Each the same length.) Some have spear blades as the secondary blade and may also be known as a "Texas Jack".
 
If my knife has brown handles, is it a chocolate moose? :)

Does a slim not stout muskrat with a spey blade have a name?
 
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