Western Boulder Colorado 6504

[pa knives]

I just purchased 10 knives as a group from ebay. The prize was a Tidioute Mfg Co. Pa. I am beside myself with the luck of finding it a getting it for a good price. Included in the hodge podge of cutlery was a Winchester # 2092 good condition and a Western # 6504. It seems odd to me because it says Whittler on the tang stamp backside. But it is not a whittler in my opinoin. The main blade has a partern blade that is a copeing blade. It has a distinct bend in it to aviod hitting the small blade exactly oposite the copeing blade. Any thoughts on this? The remaining knives were Kent (2), Corlis Cutlery, ideal, imperial,
Let me know.

Thanks

 

[knifeaholic]

Western, like a number of other knife companies, stopped making "real" split backspring whittlers due to the higher cost and probably due to the declining popularity of pocket knives in general in the post-WWII era.....in other words, knife buyers were generally happy with fewer patterns than had been offered in the past, and most of the patterns offered were derivations of the "stockman" pattern.

I have some of their old catalog sheets, and they introduced this "whittler" pattern in the 60's, they called it a "whittler" due to the blade combination only. It was in their product line at least to the late 70's.

I in fact have NEVER seen a split backspring pattern referred to as a "whittler" in any pre-WWII knife caalogs.