Show Us Your Boys Knife

[JohnDF]

We all love the GEC #15 Huckleberry Boys Knife, and i want to see 'em all.
I also want to see Boys knives made by other manufacturers, especially vintage ones.
So channel your inner child and let's see those amazing little budget knives we used to drool over as kids.

One of my favorites, a vintage Case Boys Knife in Yellow Celluloid

 

[Peregrin]

I think Eric's Jack is a boy's knife pattern. Maybe an uptown boy!

 

[aji1]

Here's another Boy's Knife by Canal Street, from the short-lived Co-Op.

 

[Un-Chained]

Boys knives, one of my faves is this Southington Cut. Co. in Cocobolo.
It’s like a 2 in 1... such snap (prolly my best yet) and very well rounded covers!

 

[Un-Chained]

Then of course, I have a few of the B&C’s...


and a Tidioute Cocobolo...

and my chainless BF handle...

 

[ISKRA]

My one and only, converted to a two blade.

 

[abbydaddy]

Serious question: what exactly makes a knife a "boy's knife"?

Is it just being a single blade smaller slipping? Is there specific bolster patterns, etc. Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[Rich S]

A lot more; have collected old boys knives for a while.
Rich

 

[euroken]

Serious question: what exactly makes a knife a "boy's knife"?

Is it just being a single blade smaller slipping? Is there specific bolster patterns, etc. Inquiring minds want to know.

I'm going to take a first pass at this

It's a jack knife similar to a barlow (but non-curved handle) with a smaller bolster.

Pros, please don't castrate me

*edit: Corrected. Removed "only at the joint" lol

 

[BrotherJim]

 

[ISKRA]

Serious question: what exactly makes a knife a "boy's knife"?

Is it just being a single blade smaller slipping? Is there specific bolster patterns, etc. Inquiring minds want to know.

From my understanding, which may very well be flawed, it's a simple jack knife, ment to be a boy's first knife that will teach him how to handle and use it. Usually it would be a swell end jack, one or two blades, no fancy materials. Often all steel construction (although that's not a must by any means), bone or wood seem to be the most common handle materials, sometimes they're even simpler and are all steel, kinda stamped out. Blade shapes can vary, sometimes they have a pen secondary blade, sometimes not. Sometimes they would have a chain with which they'd fasten the knife to a button, so that the boy wouldn't lose it as easily. The thought was a cheap and simple knife that a boy could use when out and about, yet the world wouldn't go under if he lost or broke it. A similar idea to the barlow really, just that the barlow is built to handle harder work, since the hands using it would usually be bigger and stronger than those handling a boy's knife. But when is a boy's knife a boy's knife and not simply a sleeveboard jack? I guess it's subjective, like so many other things in the knife world.

 

[BP_]

Here are a couple I’m fairly fond of. Great thread idea. Boys knife is one of my favorite patterns.

 

[JohnDF]

Some wonderful pictures you guys have added... All of them

 

[Matt_WY]

A couple favorites.

 

[BrotherJim]

Some wonderful pictures you guys have added... All of them

Unfortunately John, I can not see any of your pictures you post anywhere on BF (or Rich S pics).
Seems I've had a problem with any postimg.cc links since the forum software update.
Two screens shots below show what I see of your picture posts and what pops up in Firefox when I click on your *.img icon.
I even tried right clicking and coping the img link but still get the security warning popup.
I have NO idea what to do about it in order to see your pictures
The Firefox warning says there is nothing I can do to resolve it !!!
(yours and Rich S are the only two posts I can't see images in this thread)

Who hosts your pictures? ... BF or a third party?

 

[LastRodeo]

Happen to have this one in my pocket today.

 

[Rookie82]

My only boys knife. This is a 1 of 1 Tuna Valley prototype in Lightning Wood handles. Never went into production. One of my favorites.

 

[Rich S]

A couple more real boys knives. I picked up this type on my way home from elementary school. Cost about $0.25 then. We'd
play mumbly peg during recess. Nobody ever thought about; not kids, teachers, admin, etc. Quite normal for kids to do.





Those were the good old days when a kid could afford a knife, not modern remakes that require you to sell a kidney to buy.
Rich

 

[Duper]

I think Eric's Jack is a boy's knife pattern. Maybe an uptown boy!

I very much think the same!

,,,Mike in Canada

 

[Duper]

We all love the GEC #15 Huckleberry Boys Knife, and i want to see 'em all.
I also want to see Boys knives made by other manufacturers, especially vintage ones.
So channel your inner child and let's see those amazing little budget knives we used to drool over as kids.

One of my favorites, a vintage Case Boys Knife in Yellow Celluloid

Just WOW!

,,,Mike in Canada