Stockman Question.

[Spongebobby]

I was looking at my Schrade 885UH stockman and i noticed that the sheepsfoot blade is bent slightly to the left with a pretty even curve, and this is the only way possible to fit in between the other two blades? Are other stockmans like this? Or is it just mine? Its very clear that mine was never straight, as theres no room for it to be.

 

[Blues]

That's a normal attribute of most stockman knives. The bend you are referring to is known as "crinking". If you do a search on the term "crink" or "crinking" you'll learn more than you probably want to know.

 

[300Bucks]

Here you see several Buck Stockmen. The middle knives show crinking. Usually a pair of crinked blades operate from one spring. This is the case in the middle three knives. In some knives double brass cut-out spacers are used to make extra room for the two crinked blades to fit in blade well. Buck later chose to go to three springs and not crink any blade. Bucks early stockmen were contract made by Camillus and just used two springs. Many other traditional knives just use two. 300bucks