Tell Me About Your Cotton Samplers

[jday2727]

Hi everyone, I just ordered a Rough Rider Cotton Sampler. What are you're guys thoughts on this pattern?

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[mrknife]

if there was ever a sinister looking traditional, the cotton sampler would be it to me. well especially schatt and morgan's version

 

[Stropping Young Lad]

if there was ever a sinister looking traditional, the cotton sampler would be it to me. well especially schatt and morgan's version

You aren't kidding. The S&M version looks like a little cleaver. The northfield version with a match striker pull is an unusual but handsome knife in my opinion.

I don't have any samplers, so I'll await someone else's pictures to adorn this thread.

 

[mrknife]

You aren't kidding. The S&M version looks like a little cleaver. The northfield version with a match striker pull is an unusual but handsome knife in my opinion.

I don't have any samplers, so I'll await someone else's pictures to adorn this thread.

right?! and ive seen a traditional with a lockback cleaver blade and it wasnt that ominous!

 

[deltaboy]

One thing for sure you did not want to make any one who knows how to use them mad cause they could leave a mark.

 

[knarfeng]

You aren't kidding. The S&M version looks like a little cleaver. The northfield version with a match striker pull is an unusual but handsome knife in my opinion.

I don't have any samplers, so I'll await someone else's pictures to adorn this thread.

The Schatt knife is historically accurate. Page from a 1933 knife catalog...

 

[l9ll]

I have a S&M cotton sampler and love the pattern. Boy did that blade take a wicked edge!

 

[Vaporstang]

The Schatt knife is historically accurate. Page from a 1933 knife catalog...

Interesting catalog entry.

 

[Old Hunter]

This Krack-a-Jack Cotton Sampler (an SFO from GEC) appears to be based on a vintage Remington blade design. I spent my junior and senior HS summers working on a tobacco farm in eastern NC, but never in worked in cotton, so I've never seen one of these knives in use. OH

 

[JB in SC]

My uncle was a cotton buyer from the late 40's until the late 70's. The local cotton gin was a block down the street from my parents house. Before mechanical sampling, the sampling knives were used on bales to dig into the bale and remove a bit of cotton to be tested for staple length and a multitude of other properties. The only knives I saw in use were fixed blades hanging by the platform scale, but by that time (50's) they were used for other duties.