What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[mbkr]

This Cripple Creek is just such a finely crafted pocket knife, I decided to carry it two days in a row

 

[SteveC]

 

[lambertiana]

 

[BakeryWizard]

Winchester whittler today

 

[brokebladeenthusiast28]

 

[Invoice]

 

[Angry Waiter]

 

[knarfeng]

 

[afishhunter]

Western "D" date code 062 Folding Hunter. Toferner Celtic/Norse/"Viking" non-folding pocket knife as a neck knife. VIC Mini Champ on a 28" leather thong lanyard.
1961-1976 pre date code Western 742 Stockman, and new to me Huntsman, with Plus" scales. (has the pin hole, but lack the pen slot.)

Eventually isle get a set of red "Plus" scales with both ... and the pen.
I'm not sure about the scales, pen, pin, red toothpick, tweezers, and fob set ... It costs more than I paid for the Huntsman.

 

[315]

Went for a drive today on some roads I’ve never been on. Ran across this old gas station. Too bad gas wasn’t for sale at this price. Had a Camillus Cub Scout along for the ride?

 

[mac0731]

Haven't had this one in the pocket for a bit. The end of another weekend already. Hope everyone has a good week coming.

 

[screened porch]

Went for a drive today on some roads I’ve never been on. Ran across this old gas station. Too bad gas wasn’t for sale at this price. Had a Camillus Cub Scout along for the ride?

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Somebody must be guarding that stuff, or it would be gone.

 

[SoansoMcMasters]

 

[Wharn]

Moments before it slid down the lava rock scratching up the scales a little bit

 

[brianv]

This is the knife I carried today.

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

Nice Cattaraugus! Does it have that ringing snap?

 

[Buzzbait]

Gardening time with a great knife. Hey Buzzbait, here is another knife that looks like it was on a #14 frame, it was made by Ulster but holding it next to a Camillus it looks identical even the bone covers.View attachment 2958272View attachment 2958273

Sweet Ulster!!!! I don think I have any Ulster scout knives in bone. Just the later BSA Delrin stuff. But I do have scouts manufactured by Imperial, PAL, Kingston and Utica, and they all appear to have almost identical bone covers. I haven’t got an answer as to how they are all so amazingly similar in bone color and jigging.

The patterns can be incredibly similar between manufacturers. There were a couple of forces at work back then, that influenced this. The first is a thing called the “Pocket Knife Manufacturers Standard Catalogue”, created by the National Bureau of Standards in the early 1930’s. The government created specifications for certain pocket knife patterns, and only allowed each company to produce a certain number of patterns, with only a certain number of different covers. So you’ll see a lot of knife manufacturers making very similar knives during this period. The government had standards for all sort of stuff, kind of like how we have we now have standards for bed sizes. They tried to do the same thing with knives.

Then there’s the military specification for the Army engineers knife and others similar knives, which must have directly influenced the patterns used by many war time knife manufacturers. Camillus made a ton of engineers knives, but they were also produced by Utica, Ulster, Case, Kinfolks, PAL, Queen, etc. I have a couple of Uticas that look eerily similar to the Camillus #14 pattern frame. I find the old war knife patterns to be a wonderfully interesting topic

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I’m still toting these two Camillus today.