Show off those stacked handles!

JD Mandrell

JD Mandrell

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This thread is inspired by jackknife's latest writings!


Let's show off those stacked leather handled fixed blades!

Bark River Knfie & Tool Sperati Point & a Effingham Era Blackjack Traiguide.

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Well alrighty then, a vintage Marbles Woodcraft tang stamped 1916 with stacked leather handle topped off with a stag pommel for good measure..

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This German Boy Scout knife was my first fixed blade (brand unknown, it is marked "Filus" which was the name of the shop where it was bought), my dad got it for me in the mid 60's when I was in junior High school.

The original handle (bone or stag I think) got loose very soon and I made a new one by stacking up pieces of 3 mm plywood from a spare piece that I found, it has served me well ever since and has been many times out in the woods.

Luis


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My only "stacker", me being a folder kind of guy:
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Well Charlie, If'n you got to own just one leather stacked handled fixed blade in your repertoire,, then what the hell, it may as well be a Bo Randall design..:thumbup: :D:cool:
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Here is one I believe our very good friend good ole' jacknife wrote about in his latest story that this thread is dedicated too..

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This is a vintage hunting and camping knife-hatchet combination that WESTERN, COLORADO, USA put out many moons ago. I was fortunate enough to pick this one up at an old farm house auction in North Carolina in the the late 1980's for mere lunch money.. I was going to put it up on my next eBay offering, but now.. somehow, I think maybe I should think twice again about that idea..
 
Aw Jeez sunny, that pair brings back some memories!

I love the way the leather handle has darkened with use, somebody got some good miles out of that pair. Fer petes sake don't part with it, you'll regret it down the road. With a rig like that you can do just about everything you need to do at a campsite, hunting/fishing camp, or just woods bumming. That pair's a class act. :thumbup:
 
The only thing I like better than a stacked leather handle is a stacked leather handle with finger grooves :D

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You guys are bad and I have to stop hanging out here!

First sunny has me exited with his post of leather hatchet and knife, now ron with a very nice Randall. Thanks to you all I'm sitting here now fondling my old Camillus. :eek:

This is not good for an old mans heart!:D
 
Only a few here. This one I posted not too long ago.
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And my Western 71.
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I sure like that knife/hatchet combo, SunnyD! Just too handy of a light weight woods kit.

Nice stuff fellows.
 
Don_Luis said:
This German Boy Scout knife was my first fixed blade..
.. original handle (bone or stag I think) got loose very soon and I made a new one by stacking up pieces of 3 mm plywood from a spare piece that I found, it has served me well ever since and has been many times out in the woods.

Luis


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Luis,

That is a very fine looking fixed blade you have here. Please may I ask you by what method,, and with what tools did you utilize to carve slices from the plywood thin enough(3 mm you say) to use for the appropriate size stacker rings, but not so thin that it would fall apart on you??.
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Thanks jacknife and Amos for the insight and comments about the WESTERN combo set. You are right of coarse about this slick little light weight combination. You cannot see the back side(wedge) of the hatchet in any of the pictures that I took listed in my previous post
(I'll add another photo showing that a little later today)but, it is ever so thin and has just the slightest taper towards the cutting edge to give good striking contact. Enough weight built into it to do every camp chore you can think of including hacking right through bone while quartering up a deer to pick up right where the hunting knife leaves off but, not so much weight that you feel it on your belt after a 10 mile trek through the woods.. Yes sir, this is a very nice little light weight combination and now after awakening from a good nights sleep I've decided to hang on to her after all.
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ron mathews,
As usual you come very well prepared to the party my friend!. I really like that Randall with the four finger grips. She is a real beauty..:cool:

Amos Iron Wolf,
I never get tired of looking at that vintage military knife marked R.O.U * S.M.A. with the saw teeth on the spine.. I just noticed the pommel which I did not pay attention to prior to this time around. It looks like a helluva nice glass breaking and / or scull crushing tool(what ever the case may be) to have on a knife.. Very cool tool.:thumbup:
 
...by what method,, and with what tools...
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Gosh, that was about 40 years ago when I was a teenager...

Lets see, I remember I had read an article (in Guns and Ammo probably) about how Randall made his knives, IIRC there was a picture of him staking a leather handle, I tought I could do similar with thin wood slices.

I remember making a jig, with a pressure plier and two nails, for turning the nut in the pommel.

There was a long piece of 3 mm plywood laying around my dads shop, it was already 3 mm thick (it was made from three plies 1 mm thick each) and about 2 inches wide, I cut up square pieces with a simple saw and then made a hole in the center of each piece with a hand drill, I moved the drill around to get it sort of oval to fit the tang.

I made a new guard from a scrap piece of aluminum, I should have kept the original brass as the new one has gotten loose over the years, but the handle itself is tight so I have left it alone.

I remember covering the blade with tape and holding it vertically, tang up, in a vise, pressure fitting the guard and pushing in each piece of plywood putting some contact cement (or was it epoxy ?) on each piece before putting in another one, let it dry till the next day and then using saw, rasps, files and sandpaper for shape and finish, I think I just waxed it then and years later put several layers of varnish.

Here's another (better) picture of it along with my short Kabar and my little Boker.

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Here's a Western with a small Western folder "stacked" on top for company...:D

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Nice knives fellows.

Bill
 
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