Vest Pocket Skinner

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I found a Hen and Rooster Slippy with a Drop Point Blade at a shop today. It is real nice. Never used, never sharpened. It has a razor thin edge. Great slicer. To bad it was made after the AG Russell era. Still, fit and finish is real nice, has great snap when opening and closeing. Mirror finish on back spacer and blade, brass lined lanyard hole. Looks like back rucarta handles. Looks like a great EDC if only used for strict cutting.

Does any one know the quality of the stainless used on this knife (IYO)!

Also, Do any of you EDC a knife with such a thin edge? It is a hollow ground taped to a razor edge. How does it fair for you?

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nice piece, my dad gave me one with ivory rucarta scales. i would love to carry it because i really like the shape, however it will never see pocket time , you know something to remember him by
 
Hey guys. I believe they are Nickle silver bolsters. (just trick light of the camera). However: It does not say Bertram on the tang. So I think it was made after AG russell owned the Hen & Rooster trademark.

pholder: What a great hand down. It definetly makes it priceless.
 
I spent a lot of time this weekend figuring out what kind of an edge this knife wanted. I'll tell ya, whatever the steel is..... It's hard. I'm very impressed. I can't wait to carry and use it this week at work.
 
The shape of the knife looks amazingly like the U1 of Fallkniven. It also has the nail flick on each side.
Yeah, I know they don't have a thing to do with each other, I was just playing with my U1.

How big is it ?
 
kodiak said:
Hey guys. I believe they are Nickle silver bolsters. (just trick light of the camera).
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Nickel silver is actually a form of brass. It can look yellowish in certain lights and especially when photographed near a warm color like your knife's handle.

(Fixed the title for you.)
 
I suspect that that knife was made by my people, behind my back. There was a batch made and sold out the back door. before I lost the company.
 
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"Originally Posted by A. G. Russell
I suspect that that knife was made by my people, behind my back. There was a batch made and sold out the back door. before I lost the company.

Ouch!! "

Ouch is right. But talk about a knife with history.
 
I hate to hear about that kind of disrespect.

Esav Benyamin: Thank you for correcting my Subject Line.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Nickel silver is actually a form of brass. It can look yellowish in certain lights and especially when photographed near a warm color like your knife's handle.
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Also, the nickel silver in many German made knives tends to be a lot more brassy (and will turn much more yellow with time) than the nickel silver on American or English made knives. I have one old Henkel whittler that anyone would swear had brass bolsters and shield after it sits around a few years -- but you'd be wrong.

Sorry you got backdoored AG -- but you join a long and illustrious list of knife companies that has happened to.
 
kodiak said:
Hey guys. I believe they are Nickle silver bolsters. (just trick light of the camera). However: It does not say Bertram on the tang. So I think it was made after AG russell owned the Hen & Rooster trademark.

pholder: What a great hand down. It definetly makes it priceless.
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thanks kodiak, my son doesn't know it yet but it is his one day;)
 
That's a really cool knife. I tried to snag one off the auction site a few months ago but I fell asleep. :(
 
Is the yellow colour also dependent on the metal the nickel is plated over? Brass bolsters may react with the nickel, white metal may not? Just a thought.

Hen&Roosters I have look more 'golden' than their US counterparts.

Nice looking knife though OP.
 
willgoy said:
Is the yellow colour also dependent on the metal the nickel is plated over? Brass bolsters may react with the nickel, white metal may not? Just a thought.

Hen&Roosters I have look more 'golden' than their US counterparts.
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Well, the nickel in nickel silver is not plated over - it's in the alloy. The "standard" one recommended for knives is alloy No.752 -- which has 65% copper, 18% nickel, 17% zinc. But there are a range of alloy compositions -- all called nickel silver, each with its own characteristics. Very likely the "standard" alloy used for German knives was different.

BTW, nickel plating *has* been used on iron bolsters - at least in some old American made knives I know of.
 
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