The mystery is solved!!

[Dr Bill]

OK, maybe not a mystery to most, but something I always wondered.

Ryu Kawamura makes a knife he calls a 'Tony Bose Tribute Dog Leg Trapper'. It looks like a great knife, but I always wondered which Bose model it was a tribute to. Until now.

I recently acquired this TB Tribute from Ryu:

Then I looked through the T Bose knives I had and found a match!

The primary blades:

The secondary blades:

Both together:

Looks like a match to me! So, the knife in question is the 4-Line Trapper, based on an old Camillus pattern.

 

[Blues]

Heck, I could've told you that!

Great knife, Bill. Congrats! :thumbup:

 

[Dr Bill]

Heck, I could've told you that!

What? And spoil all my fun! LOL

Plus, the title made you look, didn't it?

 

[Mike Robuck]

Nice pair of aces Bill. Thanks for showing them.

 

[Blues]

What? And spoil all my fun! LOL

Plus, the title made you look, didn't it?

That it did, Bill, that it did. (But I always look at your posts. :thumbup

 

[waynorth]

Great pair of knives, Bill, by the top makers in the world (as we know it!)!

 

[338375]

Both very nice knives...

The bolster on the Ryu knife adds a nice touch. It also looks like the blades sit lower when closed on the Ryu knife.
Is that because it looks like the Ryu is dimensionally deeper? It appears like it is in the picture anyway.

Sorry for not being clear on my explanations, still waiting for the coffee to kick in

 

[wagglebee]

What? And spoil all my fun! LOL

Plus, the title made you look, didn't it?

Show off!

Beautiful pair of knives Bill.

 

[ptradeco]

Then I looked through the T Bose knives I had and found a match!

You are killing me Bill.

I will help you with your next quest, Ryu made this in two sizes and named them both Tony Bose Tributes.

 

[Dr Bill]

You are killing me Bill.

I will help you with your next quest, Ryu made this in two sizes and named them both Tony Bose Tributes.

I know - I have the small version ordered.

 

[wagglebee]

I know - I have the small version ordered.

From Ryu, Tony or both?

 

[ptradeco]

I know - I have the small version ordered.

How did I know that would be the case:thumbup:

 

[bakerg2g]

Dr. Bill, Those are two amazing knives!
Thanks for sharing them!



Jason

 

[comoha]

Some real enviable beauties there Doc. :thumbup:

 

[cnas122]

Wow....you don't know all of the T. Bose's you have and had to look through them to find the match? Now that's a collection......

 

[KnifeHead]

Nice ones, Bill, but, when it comes to the Old Dogs knives...

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(that doesn't keep us from tryin though )

 

[zerogee]

Never mind about the knives -- what we really need to do is corner Ryu and find out where he gets his stag from.

 

[KnifeHead]

Never mind about the knives -- what we really need to do is corner Ryu and find out where he gets his stag from.

This is true I do know that Ryu has an interesting recipe for making the stag darker. He shared that recipe with Tony and it involves collecting the outer skins off of about a gazillion onions, etc etc. and PATIENCE!

 

[texasflyfisher]

This is true I do know that Ryu has an interesting recipe for making the stag darker. He shared that recipe with Tony and it involves collecting the outer skins off of about a gazillion onions, etc etc. and PATIENCE!

That is interesting. My grandma had a remedy for cuts involving scalding hot onion skins applied directly to the cut.

What we need is a recipe to reproduce more of that old Remington bone.

Great looking pair of trappers Bill! :thumbup:

 

[zerogee]

This is true I do know that Ryu has an interesting recipe for making the stag darker. He shared that recipe with Tony and it involves collecting the outer skins off of about a gazillion onions, etc etc. and PATIENCE!

Are you sure that it was for coloring stag? It might be one of those lost in translation things and it's actually Ryu's recipe for a nice vegetable stock. Seriously, that makes me wonder if anyone has tried to recreate the old Sheffield stag coloring recipes using logwood chips.