Stockman at three months.

RaptureRaptor said:
Queen did use 1095 in some of their models and by the way it took a patina so readily I would say that may be likely. Then again, I'm no expert :)
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Those were the 'Queen City' blades; both in the original early days of the company (when they were actually called 'Queen City Cutlery', and everything was in carbon steel), and in later years with their homage to that time, in their 'Queen City' line.


David
 
Queen also used 1095 in their heritage line along with some other sfos.

With the way that took a patina it looks like 1095. I have never seen D2 patina like that, it normally just turns dull grey.



Thia thread has inspired me to seek out one of these northwood stockman in tortoise shell.
 
sunandsteel said:
Queen? I thought it was a Northwoods.
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It is a Northwoods and a Queen; many of the Northwoods patterns are contract-made by Queen (based on Queen's own patterns) and others, as Northwoods doesn't actually manufacture their own knives. They might do some of the finishing and embellishing themselves (handle covers, shields, etc.), but the raw components of the pattern (frame, liners, bolsters, springs and blades) are manufactured by others.


David
 
Jackknife, are you still there?
I'm wondering if you used the sheepsfoot so much in your first stockman period, and if so didn't that make the switch to peanut harder?

Also, speaking as one whose fingers are starting to look like John Carradine's, I wonder why an EO jack wasn't an option after the peanut period. (They usually don't have a sheepsfoot either, but neither did the peanut.) Nostalgia for the stockman?

I just got a Camillus Buck 303 and I'm loving it, by the way.
 
Stockman still my favorite pattern to carry. I have no idea why I need all those blades but I love them!
 
scrteened porch said:
Jackknife, are you still there?
I'm wondering if you used the sheepsfoot so much in your first stockman period, and if so didn't that make the switch to peanut harder?

Also, speaking as one whose fingers are starting to look like John Carradine's, I wonder why an EO jack wasn't an option after the peanut period. (They usually don't have a sheepsfoot either, but neither did the peanut.) Nostalgia for the stockman?

I just got a Camillus Buck 303 and I'm loving it, by the way.
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Yeah, I'm still here. When I made the switch to the peanut, it was from the 303 cadet. And yes, I did miss the sheep foot blade a bit. But I liked the smaller pocket package so much, that I just used the 'nut's pen blade to pierce the plastic blister packages. It was just a modification of technique using a different knife. Kind of like drinking a nice scotch if bourbon wasn't available. Different knives, different handling techniques.

Now, I still miss my peanut going back to a stockman, more than I missed the stockman back when I went to the peanut. But it's just a matter of adapting to what I have to do, with the limitations of the arthritis in my fingers. I don't have the RA, thank God, but just some painful ostio arthritis from cranking on mill handles and pulling on lathe handles for 30 years. The Northwoods stockman has such light pulls, it's a delight for an old man to open. I still have a slight sneaking suspicion that Dan, the new Grand High Muckba, had the knife special modified. If not, maybe I should have checked out Northwoods sooner. Or Queen for that matter if that's who made the knife. But to get back to your question, I did miss the sheep foot now and then, and it does feel like a sort of coming home to be back with a stockman again, and have the high sitting sheep foot on tap again. I really love this knife. But I may look around at the knife store and see if I can find a light pull Buck 303. I understand sometimes the pulls on the Buck 300's are on the light side. The cadet is a great pocket knife!!!
 
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