The Sweet Thread! Butter and Molasses!!

[pertinux]

Love the B&M look and feel.

Beautiful (a recurring theme, with your knives ).

Is that a Pennsylvania (state-shape) blade stamp I spy on the left?

~ P.

 

[singin50]

No it's Oregon, Orvet rebladed this one for me.

 

[pertinux]

No it's Oregon....

Aw, Jeez. O'course it is.

(The "smokestack" was a clue!)

Thanks for the response. :thumbup:

~ P.

 

[singin50]

Well it sounds like you know your state shapes better than me, I was always too busy working.

 

[black mamba]

I brought this thread back up because I just scored one at auction. This beautiful little jack is a Robeson ShurEdge, 3.175" closed, #822100.
No gassing, no chips or cracks, both blades full to untouched, excellent W&T, main pull a 4, pen blade a 5. I'm one happy butter & molasses owner!

ROBESON / ShurEdge / ROCHESTER (1922-1939)

ROBESON / USA / CUTLERY

 

[paulhilborn]

^^^^^^

What a beauty Jeff!!!

Paul

 

[singin50]

Mighty fine Jeff and thank you for putting the knife in here! It certainly belongs with those beautiful B&M handles.:thumb up: Pretty rare to find one with full blades.

 

[black mamba]

Thanks, boys, I feel very blessed and thankful.

 

[blademan 13]

Awesome! Pure classic......

 

[Gevonovich]

Super fine, Jeff!! Its an old'n too!! Congrats.

 

[black mamba]

Thanks, fellas, thanks again.

 

[CNoyes]

That's a nice old Robeson. What is its pattern number?

Here's a similar Robeson equal-end jack with clip master and pen blades. 3 1/4" long, closed.

 

[black mamba]

Charlie, the tang at the kick has a scuff on it right where the final number is, so hard to tell, but here is a picture. Mine is 3.175" closed.
What is the model number on your jack?

Looks like 822100, or 822106, or 822108, or possibly 822109. Which do you think is right?

 

[CNoyes]

Yours might be 105.

Mine is 822023.

 

[wlfryjr]

Beauties River ,and my kinda knives,old.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Man..there are some fantastic knives in here...in fact sweet as.......







butter and molassas

 

[singin50]

Thanks Duncan! More coming soon I hope.

 

[singin50]

Well here's what showed up today. Shapleigh D&E Jack, this thing was a total mess when it arrived and I know what people say about cleaning but when you need to save the life of a knife, well, that's what I did. The handles and shield were just too special for me to let it stay rusted out. Yes the blades are pitted and past it, no, it had zero snap/walk and talk when it arrived but after a bit of compressed air, gun scrubber and quick release oil, this knife walks and talks like a champ again! I was buying this knife to reblade it but because of the stamps being on both blades, I rethought that idea. This knife would've been new in or around the early 1940s or maybe earlier. Shapleigh dropped the stamping on all but the main blade by the middle 1940s. You can't imagine the amount of rust that was pulled out of this little Jack knife! I used 3M micron sanding papers for the handles and bolsters, to remove the layers of gunk that was keeping this Jack knife in less than attractive condition. I don't clean all my older knives, far from it! Most are not touched but when I have a knife that I know is gone, it's time to get busy.
Anyway,,,before and after, who could blame me for bringing this one back?

 

[waynorth]

Nice rescue, Perry!

 

[singin50]

Guess which one is new!