What's missing from your traditional collection?

The material concerned that does this is Celluloid Chisumr, and its extremely Flammable and so it can also be unstable in storage with "gassing off" the chemicals that are contained in the Celluloid - 99.9% of the time having devastating effect on the knife-and any surrounding knife stored with it - they rust incredibly badly, as you can see on a new knife owned by Sarah, with luck the knife was able to be retrieved before the gassing off got to its maximum in damage, look back and remember when you have seen an older Celluloid knife with very badly shrunken scales -and the knife is a basket case - you can guarantee that knife has gassed off.
If I am not totally correct on this I stand to be corrected :thumbup:
 
Thank you very much for explaining gassing off Campbellclanman. Now I understand it.
 
THAT is a rare beauty Sara I'm glad it was saved and that you have it!:thumbup:

Dave
 
SAK Alox Solo's in all six colors. South African edition, and retailers there will ship to virtually every country in the world EXCEPT the US of A.:mad:
 
Chris Montgomery said:
Sarah, I agree on Burt's Dark Side or just about any of his knives. Burt is one of the good ones. You have great taste in cutlery.

Chris
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Thanks for the compliment, and for your endorsement of Foster and his work. I appreciate both. :)

Rsmith_77 said:
I have noticed that i lack a knife with a main blade sheepsfoot
something like a GEC Scout in autumn bone or ebony ...perhaps one day :p
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In a rare fit of attempted responsibility, I didn't buy the ebony two-bladed Scout I held in my hands at GEC last year at its unveiling, and forewent landing one while they were still available. I determined that my walnut TC barlow in the same blade configuration should be enough. "Should" being the operative hope. Not so! I have since been fortunate to obtain an Autumn Bone Beerscout (ez-open, sheepsfoot main), but the Hershey-bar ebony Scouts haunt me still.

Campbellclanman said:
Sarah - I am glad you had a save of a lovely knife - I do prefer the Ebony to be honest ( if it were to be a knife I would use - not collect ), but I also see the sadness in loosing the Candy-stripe for collectable reasons :-(, Sarah - you still have a stunning knife there - do you get to use that one - or is it a safe queen?
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Duncan, ebony is my go-to favorite as well. I am easily (and happily) wooed by all manner of bone, jigged and smooth, but at the end of the day (and the beginnings of most) it's ebony that feels like "coming home." It's elegant, functional, and so pleasing to eye and hand.

As for this knife? So far, I have mostly just handled it in awe. Given my other lovelies which beg for use, I am inclined to give this one a well-deserved respite from the rigors of its early life, and give it a spin every now and then only for Ooohs and Aaahs-- not my usual apples, sticks, cheese 'n stuff![/QUOTE]

knowtracks said:
THAT is a rare beauty Sarah I'm glad it was saved and that you have it!:thumbup:

Dave
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Thanks, Dave!

~ P.
 
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Here's a great article by the Oregon knife club on celluloid off gassing. If you google celluloid oregon knife club you may get a pile of images of knives thar are in all stages of breakdown and off gassing. This artical convinced me to sell all my cell ;-)) Thank god for GEC acrylics.

http://www.oregonknifeclub.org/celluloid_02.html

Best regards

Robin
 
Pipeman said:
Here's a great article by the Oregon knife club on celluloid off gassing.
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Thanks, Robin-- very helpful! Although I confess the author had me at,

Sometime in the 1940's or 1950's, the use of celluloid on knives was discontinued. The reason was that any of the nitrate products have a special characteristic called "flammability."
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:eek:

:D

I wish the accompanying images were easier to see, so might go on a further hunt as per your post.

~ P.
 
pertinux said:
Duncan, ebony is my go-to favorite as well. I am easily (and happily) wooed by all manner of bone, jigged and smooth, but at the end of the day (and the beginnings of most) it's ebony that feels like "coming home." It's elegant, functional, and so pleasing to eye and hand.

As for this knife? So far, I have mostly just handled it in awe. Given my other lovelies which beg for use, I am inclined to give this one a well-deserved respite from the rigors of its early life, and give it a spin every now and then only for Ooohs and Aaahs-- not my usual apples, sticks, cheese 'n stuff!
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Sarah - nice, and it deserves a easy life, I tend to give a lot of my special knives an easy life, but do carry them as a "careful carry" at times, so I know what you mean!
Thanks for coming back with that! in all its a hang of a cool knife!
 
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Thanks for the article Robin. I had a good laugh when some collectors described celluloid as "Genuine Mother-of-Toilet Seat" :D
 
Here's a pic of the results of off gassing. Notice the milky colour of the cell and the darkening of the bolster as well as the
steel rot outside the slot.
There seems to be a lot of old celluloid around. Case used it much later than the 50s, so did many german makers.

Best regards

Robin
 
I dream of a Puukko made by Joonas Kallioniemi, with a rhomboid grind and very high bevel line. Much like the one Christian has posted in various threads some time back...
 
I've been hunting a Case XX 6380 with green bone covers for sometime and the old Case barlow with the long-tail C stamped bolsters and jigged bone covers, very hard pieces to find. :confused:
 
I was going through my mine and realized I do not have a lockback. I have looked at several 72s but just never pulled the trigger. Wish GEC would do a Northfield African Blackwood 72 with a long pull clip.
 
Ya' know, now that I think about it, this is the first time in a while that I don't own a Marble's of some sort. Traded the last one at a gun show this past summer... Maybe I should reconsider that proposition. And it's a good excuse (as good as any, I suppose) to buy a new (or old) knife!
 
Looking for a vintage Puma Prince. It sure would complete my vintage Puma folder collection.

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Tom
 
I do not have any Northwoods knives. Waiting on another run of the Madison Barlows in blue bone. I also have been searching for a GEC 66 serpentine in green bone. I do have one stockman but it was my dad's and I do not carry it so I have been looking for one like it and at some German made knives maybe knives from the "around the world". I also would like to try Queen dogleg or #9.

The moose and mini moose look interesting. I also have been thinking about muskrat's.

There are so many patterns I do not have and was looking at several new patterns to me last weekend. My wife had a very good price break and I spent a long time at the knife counter looking at knives. My wife and son were laughing at me trying to make up my mind. The young man behind the counter was a great sport about it and asked if I collected and how many knives I had. I got nervous and before I could answer my wife told him that he should not ask that question,.must be the holidays talking.
Dave
 
So I was looking for something else, came across this thread again, and read the following:
pertinux said:
I would love to own a Burt Foster Darkside, but am so tickled by my useful selection of small fixed blades that I doubt I will ever decide to justify its cost over and against the rest of my life and the needs therein.

Similarly, my selection will probably always be missing an Erickson. I have great respect for the man and his work, and continual awe at not only his skill in construction but his eye for the aesthetics of/within each piece.
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Well, I'll be. I'd forgotten writing that out, let alone in one post!

Sometime between there and here, this happened:

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Also this:

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Not only that, but I also just brought home a White Whale of a find.

No, really:

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Gulp. I s'pose I can stop, now? :confused:


:D




So, uhhhhm. "Good, thanks. How 'bout you?"


:cool:

~ P.
 
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