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Sowbelly Stockman
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Modoc ED
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This thread started and ended during part of the period I was in the hospital getting my new jaw. It's a good thread so, I thought I'd bring it back up.
I have several Sowbelly knives one of which is this Case Black Curly Maple covered 3-blade
and this one from GEC - a Bayou Trapper with black linen micarta covers on a Sowbelly frame
I have several Sowbelly knives one of which is this Case Black Curly Maple covered 3-blade
and this one from GEC - a Bayou Trapper with black linen micarta covers on a Sowbelly frame
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Well since Ed resurrected this thread the day before my newest sowbelly arrived in the mail, I'll join in. I like the sowbelly stockman, because it's roughly the same length of a medium stockman, but is a bit more hefty & fills my hand better. I have three, so far.
Modoc ED
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Well since Ed resurrected this thread the day before my newest sowbelly arrived in the mail, I'll join in. I like the sowbelly stockman, because it's roughly the same length of a medium stockman, but is a bit more hefty & fills my hand better. I have three, so far.
WOW!!! Very nice. All three are winners.
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I had sort of an 'obsession' with Case's Sowbelly pattern about 20 years ago or so. I have many others stashed away - but of these ones below, I'd already taken a few pics to post here.
The first 2 pictures are of a customized 'Painted Pony' prototype by Michael Prater, in mammoth tooth covers with fileworked spines & springs and with textured bolsters. The mammoth tooth is what blew my mind. I had to have it, once I'd seen it for sale.
The 3rd picture is one of Case's standard-line knives - a 5-blade 'Tested XX' run in some beautiful brown jigged bone. It arrived in the display tin seen, with all blades partly opened. When I tried to extract it from the molded insert in the tin, the small clip blade snapped shut and very neatly clipped ~ 1/4" ovals of skin from the tips of two of my fingers, which then bled profusely. That was the 1st-day introduction to that knife, and I was suitably impressed at the sharpness of that blade.
The first 2 pictures are of a customized 'Painted Pony' prototype by Michael Prater, in mammoth tooth covers with fileworked spines & springs and with textured bolsters. The mammoth tooth is what blew my mind. I had to have it, once I'd seen it for sale.
The 3rd picture is one of Case's standard-line knives - a 5-blade 'Tested XX' run in some beautiful brown jigged bone. It arrived in the display tin seen, with all blades partly opened. When I tried to extract it from the molded insert in the tin, the small clip blade snapped shut and very neatly clipped ~ 1/4" ovals of skin from the tips of two of my fingers, which then bled profusely. That was the 1st-day introduction to that knife, and I was suitably impressed at the sharpness of that blade.