So I've started into the world of lockbacks and trappers, or what I thought was the class of folding knives that included stockman? Ropers? And was hoping people might help me complete a short list of styles and sort of a guide to help me understand this Era and realm of these knives.
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Traditional folder question
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Oh gosh.
I suggest googling Case and searching by pattern. A non-member website I'm thinking of will show you silhouettes of more patterns than you want to remember. Or go to AG Russell/ folders and he'll give you a list of patterns to look at as well.
I suggest googling Case and searching by pattern. A non-member website I'm thinking of will show you silhouettes of more patterns than you want to remember. Or go to AG Russell/ folders and he'll give you a list of patterns to look at as well.
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Howdy,
Well...if you were to say you wanted pics of "lockbacks and trappers", you would be asking for two reasonably specific patterns. Although "lockback", being a lock style, rather than a specific pattern, does tend to include various blade styles.
If you were to say you wanted pictures of "traditional knives", that would include many other patterns, including lockbacks, trappers, stockman, teardrop jack, serpentine jack, dogleg jack, melon tester, sowbelly, sway back jack, whittler, copperhead, canoe, congress, peanut, sodbuster, toothpick, doctor, muskrat, surveyor, cattleman, and others.
AG Russell is a paid BF dealer member, which allows us to reference them in our posts. They have a reasonably complete glossary of knife terms on their web site
http://www.agrussell.com/Glossary/a/101/
You will find a wide variety of traditional knife patterns illustrated in this thread:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...uot-Traditional-Knife-quot-are-ya-totin-today
Well...if you were to say you wanted pics of "lockbacks and trappers", you would be asking for two reasonably specific patterns. Although "lockback", being a lock style, rather than a specific pattern, does tend to include various blade styles.
If you were to say you wanted pictures of "traditional knives", that would include many other patterns, including lockbacks, trappers, stockman, teardrop jack, serpentine jack, dogleg jack, melon tester, sowbelly, sway back jack, whittler, copperhead, canoe, congress, peanut, sodbuster, toothpick, doctor, muskrat, surveyor, cattleman, and others.
AG Russell is a paid BF dealer member, which allows us to reference them in our posts. They have a reasonably complete glossary of knife terms on their web site
http://www.agrussell.com/Glossary/a/101/
You will find a wide variety of traditional knife patterns illustrated in this thread:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...uot-Traditional-Knife-quot-are-ya-totin-today
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You should buy a book. Here are a few:
Levine's Guide to Knives and their Values 4th Edition by Bernard Levine (ISBN# 0873491890)
Official Price Guide to Collector Knives, 15th Edition by C. Houston Price (ISBN# 0375722807)
I'd also recommend buying
Counterfeiting Antique Cutlery by Gerald Witcher (ISBN# 0966102800)
Goins' Encyclopedia of Cutlery Markings by John and Charlotte Goins