Sunday in bawanna's man cave.

That's a Bookie personal creation. Probably do no good to ask him to make another, he did it to see if he could and he obviously could in spades. It's unsharpened and I will not sharpen it or deface it in any way. He also made the little hatchet next to it, forged it, handled it from scratch. The picture shows the hatchet poorly, it has an amazing tiger maple handle that is just gorgeous. Just begs and whines all the time. HOLD ME! Funny my son who helped with the high stuff asked the same question. I told him and he was like yeah right. Told him some Durty Nellie stories and barrel making stories and now he's a believer. Both will be kept in a place of honor long as I'm drawing air into my lungs or even one of them pumps far as that goes.

Incredible to think he made these from scratch. I have similar thoughts about Kami creations now that I ponder it.

Perhaps he's a kami too?
 
Bawanna said:
That's a Bookie personal creation. Probably do no good to ask him to make another, he did it to see if he could and he obviously could in spades. It's unsharpened and I will not sharpen it or deface it in any way. He also made the little hatchet next to it, forged it, handled it from scratch. The picture shows the hatchet poorly, it has an amazing tiger maple handle that is just gorgeous. Just begs and whines all the time. HOLD ME! Funny my son who helped with the high stuff asked the same question. I told him and he was like yeah right. Told him some Durty Nellie stories and barrel making stories and now he's a believer. Both will be kept in a place of honor long as I'm drawing air into my lungs or even one of them pumps far as that goes.

Incredible to think he made these from scratch. I have similar thoughts about Kami creations now that I ponder it.

Perhaps he's a kami too?
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Waow - Thanks for sharing. These are great gifts!
 
Nice setup there, Mr. B. I've filled up my china cabinet and have sadly had to keep a bunch in the drawers below. Would love to be able to display all of them at once. I gotta come up with something where they will be secure away from little fingers.
 
Bawanna said:
I like to be able to see them and access them. Nice to look at but practical from a grab and go stand point too.

Also makes good use of that corner in the closet I can't get to. Had I know when I built the addition that I was gonna be a full time sitter I never would have put that closet in, course I would have made it twice as big too.

I think they call that 20/20 hindsight.
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Great idea. It looks impressive - display and access.
 
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Is that the same as the Camillus in Bookies corner compliments of Mr. Bookie himself? It's near perfect and he respected and took darn good care of it. Why he blessed me with it's possession is still a mystery. It's a neat little knife.
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This one is near black with age and missions and wax...dated 1973 on pommel and much grey paint left on butt, separately made sheath dated 1971, dropped choil and curved edge ending in a long very pointy tip....will post a picture of the old friend tomorrow....normally now lives in cardboard box of "knives i have known and loved and see what happens to them when they volunteer to go to strange and exciting places and meet exotic people, and shoot them?"....they all deserve something such as yours, among friends and loved.....will post a couple of them here tomorrow as something which should be there....am sure others have those nominees as well....."Knives which should decorate the walls of the cave".
 
Candidates for hanging on the wall of the Bawanna Cave Museum of Knives....many an adventure, these, many a mission...the Bianchi born in time to hunt for Noriega, and actually drop forged by Carl Schlieper Eye Brand and very few out there (Randall knife expensive at the time)....the Jet Pilot the trusty Camillus with month and year on pommel originally made to fit in haft of a takedown life raft shaft...the grey paint a special spec over heavily peened tang....the purpose is a mystery except perhaps low light viz or a super adhering corrosion resisting paint of the time...both are a stoutly 3/16ths" thick and really need to be hung up in such a display rather than my dusty box of knives i have known and loved and lived with and who always were an extreme comfort and invaluable at times....trust with my life friends....

So Bawanna can compare his Jet Pilot to this one.....the knife which everyone hates but actually is a heck of a little stout survival knife even in modern more crude bar form, is will take a pounding and never let you down....nothing like jungle mildew and a rat peeing on a knife sheath in your hooch to give one character...

PS- thought i'd add detail about Jet Pilot construction...folk shop and sell and complain on whether guard rattles, as if something shrank or came loose....not at all...for a reason i will never know, the steel washer at front of leather rests on its on step on tang after guard installed to butt against tang shoulders...and the washers always seem prone to rust on old and new while a Marine Combat/Utility (kabar) with leather directly against guard and pommel never seems to have any problem with rust on either....no idea why this is so, either, but a fact of life with a Jet Pilot..but if you baton and want a knife to baton through a Chevy, it will do just fine.

PPS- am sure the Schlieper knife still has water purification tablets, hi zoot antibiotics and pain killers, along with waterproof matches and steel wool and dryer lint, still inside time vault sealed handle.

















 
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Your Camillus Jet knife is a spitting image/clone of mine. Actually it's Bookie's but I'm holding it for him. I have to verify but I think it is marked 1973 also. This was a Helicopter knife, not a jet but I'm sure it served the same purpose. No paint or anything on this one. Since it was a survival knife in a very trying location in very trying conditions he took special good care of it so if he needed it, it would be good as it could be.
I've seen far worse condition ones selling for pretty large bucks around here at gun shows and such but have no care whatsoever what the value is, priceless in my book.

That Bianchi sings. Beautiful knife. I'd probably find a place to hang that on my chair as a daily user.

You need to build you a knife rack so all these Randall's and others see the light of day and get looked at from time to time.
 
The pegboard idea is great. I may have to do something similar. Beautiful blades too, thank you for sharing
 
I am simply gonna have to do the pegboard thing
...if i get a chance to scarf more heat shrink, i need to send to Bawanna and he can even do a shrink on shrink with these variety packs....but small surgical tubing is best for grabby but decays quite quick as it was made originally to be a surrogate flesh and close enough many folk's bodies attack the stuff right away on contact...would need baby powder to get it over metal hooks....

Bianchi info for Bawanna.....it is the Bianchi #855 Nighthawk and if you see one, buy it, it performs exactly as a Randall stainless 1-6....or if you see a similar Schlieper EyeBrand survival knife, do not let it pass, even if sheath not as good and blade not countersunk and green epoxied into guard as is the one they did for Bianchi....the tang extends several inches into the guard and handle, tang is over 1/2" deep and 3/16ths" thick with very generous radii as it transitions to ricasso...zytel handle is built around a machined brass thickwall tube and both full tang and stem of threaded tang protrudes into thick base of brass chamber and secured by a nut.....the area just behind guard is where most stresses take place in that first inch as hand tries to power through handle on a chop while blade tries to bend backward over hand.....this is the best i have seen short of a Randall#18, as with the Randall the blade shoulders supported on guard take first brunt of blows anyhow....for a hollow handle, it is very good and only most extreme stress would get it to show as weaker than a longer tang....all this info so that if you see one, and priced right, get it....Schlieper made several blade styles and also a black coating on blade during relatively very short production run before dropping the line....interestingly it was a copy of an earlier and short lived S&W made i think in Japan.....with all that brass, it is not a light knife but a great outdoors companion on freshwater boat or whatever....you would love it....you just do not see very many factory knives with a forged out dropped choil and edge....as close to handforged as you can get....back in the good old days....some of the parts still turn up from time to time from when Schlieper shut down and other bought name and commenced using at first Solingen workers and parts and then started importing from Spain and China and calling them German....beware newer German goods, especially lasered markings on classic old names revived of late....
 
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