What do you have up your sleeve? Traditional Sleeveboard show

[Will Power]

@Mike Robuck A sensational one there, big as a Surfboard Looks in fine unmarked state too

Thanks, Will

 

[Will Power]

 

[Travman]

Reverse Sleeveboards are some of my favorites. Little brother...

And big brother...

 

[sunknife]

Here's the bone version of your Klaas lockback Gevonovich.View attachment 1155385
I had to modify it with some filing of the kicks and by also filing in an easy open notch for secondary blades to be able to access nail nicks on all 3 blades. When done I dyed the bone as well to the color shown.

 

[MerryMadMonk]

Fun thread!
Remington:

Magnificent!

 

[Gevonovich]

Here ya go, Gev.

Main blade has a permanent, etched stain... otherwise, it appears it was never used, i.e. factory edges on both blades.

Even better...wow what a gem !!! Thank you

Thank you, Gev, the sleeveboard is one of my favorite patterns. The GEC #78 is a good one.

Indeed...a fine pair !! Much appreciated

OK Gev, you win. No one's gonna top that, might as well lock this thread now...

Thank you for the fine compliment !

Richard Rogers

A pair of Joseph Rodgers

Love em..that ebony is so special and that Rogers...smashing !!

Fun thread!
Remington:

Mike, that Bulldog is magnifique !!!!!
Kevin did a nice write-up on his:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/old-knives.527126/page-854#post-18964344

Gorgeous, Will !

Reverse Sleeveboards are some of my favorites. Little brother...

And big brother...

Man o man...to the max !!!!!!

Here's the bone version of your Klaas lockback Gevonovich.View attachment 1155385View attachment 1155386
I had to modify it with some filing of the kicks and by also filing in an easy open notch for secondary blades to be able to access nail nicks on all 3 blades. When done I dyed the bone as well to the color shown.

What a wonderooous job on the mod...perfection. A stick of dynamite Mine is in my pocket

 

[5K Qs]

Lovely knives in this thread; thanks for starting it, Gev!
But I think I need a definition/description of the sleeveboard pattern.
My current (mis)conception is that a sleeveboard has straight sides between a wide and a narrow end, and the master blade must pivot on the wide end. So a GEC #26 is a sleeveboard pattern, but a GEC #25 is not.
How close to an accurate understanding am I? Thanks.

- GT

 

[Gevonovich]

This from our old friend @Pipeman (Robin )

Here are Bernard Levines words on sleeveboards.
Pens. "A sleeveboard pen has round ends"like a senator", but it's handle tapers"." Sleeveboard pen knives ordinarily have the master on the wider end."
Sleeveboard jacks and jumbo jacks." Regular jacks have squared corners at the blade end. Similar tapered knives that are rounded at both ends are usually called sleeveboard jacks.Unlike regular jacks, some sleeveboard jacks have their blades at the wider end." There is more on jumbo jacks but i'm tired of typing


Best regards

Robin

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/what-is-a-sleeveboard-pattern.1166446/

Hope that answers your question, Gary. Thank you and this is still open for debate

 

[MerryMadMonk]

Hibbard Spencer Bartlett Sleeveboard Pen, 3 1/4 inches

 

[Gevonovich]

Hibbard Spencer Bartlett Sleeveboard Pen, 3 1/4 inches

Mighty fine, Al ! A real gem of a pearl. Thanks for the look

 

[black mamba]

Boker USA Penknife (a gift from my friend Will Power)

 

[MerryMadMonk]

Mighty fine, Al ! A real gem of a pearl. Thanks for the look

Thanks, Gev!

The Northwoods Bear Lake was built on the #59 frame, 3 1/2 inches. (I'd love to see a regular production #59, with spear, pen, ebony, nickel silver bolsters/pins/liners)

 

[Gevonovich]

Thanks, Gev!

The Northwoods Bear Lake was built on the #59 frame, 3 1/2 inches. (I'd love to see a regular production #59, with spear, pen, ebony, nickel silver bolsters/pins/liners)

I think it would do real well too ! Love that one

 

[Will Power]

Tip Bolstered old Rem from the 1920s

 

[herder]

Good idea for a thread, Gev. with some beautiful examples shown!!!
Here is an old Alfred Fields Sleeveboard dressed in ebony with a Federal shield on his chest.

View attachment 1156280

 

[5K Qs]

This from our old friend @Pipeman (Robin )

Here are Bernard Levines words on sleeveboards.
Pens. "A sleeveboard pen has round ends"like a senator", but it's handle tapers"." Sleeveboard pen knives ordinarily have the master on the wider end."
Sleeveboard jacks and jumbo jacks." Regular jacks have squared corners at the blade end. Similar tapered knives that are rounded at both ends are usually called sleeveboard jacks.Unlike regular jacks, some sleeveboard jacks have their blades at the wider end." There is more on jumbo jacks but i'm tired of typing


Best regards

Robin

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/what-is-a-sleeveboard-pattern.1166446/

Hope that answers your question, Gary. Thank you and this is still open for debate

Thanks for the information and link, Gev.
There are more complicated relationships among various knife-related terms than I hoped to find!
E.g., am I correct in concluding that some Barlows are sleeveboard jacks and some are not, depending on the shape (round end or square end) of the bolster? And based on the descriptions from Levine, both GEC #25 and GEC #26 are sleeveboard patterns, even though GEC calls only the 26 by that name.

Anyway, the tapered knives that strike ME as particularly attractive are the ones with main blades at the wide end of the frame.

- GT

 

[MerryMadMonk]

Fremont Jacks

 

[MerryMadMonk]

Sears (Camillus) Sleeveboard Whittler