Thrifty Thursday... Cheap Traditional Knives

Hickory n steel said:
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I carried this one last week and it's definitely one of my favorite pocket knives.

I consider it to be relatively thrifty, because it cost me under $20 like new off Ebay , the 2nd one I bought NOS on Ebay to give away was under $20, and I know I probably payed a little more than they were new from Monroe Hardware.
Probably significantly more than the 60's examples sold for and likely right about what they were in the final years of Camillus.
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Love those all metal pen knives. I carried an executive model from SAK for years before I destroyed it by using it as a lock pick.
 
I thought I had a couple more of these somewhere.
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Maybe I'll re-cover the Jowika. It rattles.
Or I could run a bead of super glue.
 
I ordered a bunch of new knives in May, and several meet my criterion for a "thrifty" knife. They arrived just in the (nail) nick of time, since I think a week of two ago I posted the last of the thrifty knives I possessed at the time. But now I think I can post a new Thrifty Thursday knife each week through the end of July. At that point, maybe I'll just start "showing reruns".

Anyway, much to my surprise, I bought another fixed blade knife, despite my "vow" to not open that whole fixed blade can of worms. My new one is an Otter carbon paring knife with wood handle (that joins the Victorinox stainless serrated sheepsfoot paring knife I bought almost a year ago).
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- GT
 
Somehow managed to post images w/o text. Sigh... Anyway r8shell, the Jowika stamp has owl staring at us on the leftside. The haze above and to the left of the owl is just light blade pitting.

Screened porch, the cheap plastic scales are held down with metal tabs thru the liners. The Jowika had a loose one. I held it tightly at the loose tab, and forced a pin punch held perpendicular to the backspring with the blade open (careful!) over the tab to flatten it down. Good enough, and no glue for now. I think it was 1/16" punch, but whatever fits.
 
R8shell, forgot to mention, finally a use for the macro camera on my thrifty Samsung A51 phone! Makers stamps. Surprised you haven't seen Jowika stamp before. You and Jack Black are such enjoyable fountains of information. You two are always a good read.
Wishing all a great weekend, whenever you get to one.
 
r8shell said:
That Jowika stamp is cool; I can't remember seeing one like that. :cool::thumbsup:
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I don't see a lot of the Jowika stamp. I think I own only two. (The other is on that scout knife that Jack Black Jack Black sent me quite recently for rehandling. (It must have been quite recently because I haven't finished it yet.))
marantz said:
Somehow managed to post images w/o text. Sigh... Anyway r8shell, the Jowika stamp has owl staring at us on the leftside. The haze above and to the left of the owl is just light blade pitting.

Screened porch, the cheap plastic scales are held down with metal tabs thru the liners. The Jowika had a loose one. I held it tightly at the loose tab, and forced a pin punch held perpendicular to the backspring with the blade open (careful!) over the tab to flatten it down. Good enough, and no glue for now. I think it was 1/16" punch, but whatever fits.
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Thanks for the tip.
I set these aside to put real bolsters on, but the Irish Imperial I did a couple decades ago was such an ordeal that I haven't gotten round to it. Then I thought, I could just glue on wooden handles. But if I want fake handles, I've already got them! So job done.
I used to be deeply offended by hollow, so-called bolsters on so-called Barlows, but I've mellowed, or life has worn me down.
 
screened porch said:
I don't see a lot of the Jowika stamp. I think I own only two. (The other is on that scout knife that Jack Black Jack Black sent me quite recently for rehandling. (It must have been quite recently because I haven't finished it yet.))
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marantz said:
R8shell, forgot to mention, finally a use for the macro camera on my thrifty Samsung A51 phone! Makers stamps. Surprised you haven't seen Jowika stamp before. You and Jack Black are such enjoyable fountains of information. You two are always a good read.
Wishing all a great weekend, whenever you get to one.
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Thank you. There's always more to learn.
 
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