Show off your Equal-end Jacks!

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Here's a Kingston cattle knife that looks like it might fit the requirements of this thread: equal-end, 2 blades on same end...

Oops! There's a sneaky awl on the end opposite the other blades.

Close, but no cigar!
(Actually, I suppose it is a cigar pattern, but not a jack. )

- GT

 

[afishhunter]

Here's a Kingston cattle knife that looks like it might fit the requirements of this thread: equal-end, 2 blades on same end...

Oops! There's a sneaky awl on the end opposite the other blades.

Close, but no cigar!
(Actually, I suppose it is a cigar pattern, but not a jack. )

- GT

It's a "Double End cigar jack"?
A "jack knife" can be single or double ended, and it is definitely a "cigar" pattern.
Very nice Kingston.

 

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It's a "Double End cigar jack"?
A "jack knife" can be single or double ended, and it is definitely a "cigar" pattern.
Very nice Kingston.

Thanks for the kind comment about the Kingston.

Yeah, I know that some knives with a blade at each end are called double end jacks if they're too big to be called pen knives, but "too big" seems pretty subjective. For example, I know there are knives that you call "small" that I think are "big" or at least "medium".
(And even though I have MANY canoes, I'm not sure if they are double-ended jacks, or pen knives; is 3 5/8" closed too big for a pen knife?)

Here's another terminology question for which I'm not sure of the answer: Do "cigar jack" and "equal-end jack" mean exactly the same thing?
Must an equal-end jack have rounded bolsters? Must equal-end jack have a straight back (where the spring is), or may it be curved (like a canoe or a congress) as long as the curve is "symmetric"? Or may an equal-end jack even be serpentine (non-symmetric)?

Is this an equal-end jack? I (and I'm guessing the original poster for this thread) would say no.

- GT

 

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