What's missing Here??

thawk said:
You are baiting Murphy there Steve. Lets see, this player has not missed a free throw in 15 years... clank, woops! :D
Click to expand...

Hal, thats how I split the bone on my MM. Dropped it from 1 foot off my driveway. I was scraping the copper connector on my pop-up.lol
 
knifeaholic said:
I recently purchased several Queen made MM knives with yellow bone handles and they are all 2008 and brand new 2010 production - they all have pinned on shields so maybe you just got a factory error?
Click to expand...

Could be Steve. The knife is so tight and f/f is up there that I can't take it out of my pocket.
 
So, Case sent me the shield I asked for, in two sizes, just in Case!*
CaseLetter.jpg

CaseLetterCU.jpg

I wonder if Susan is a real Case??

Now if I can just not glue it to my finger - - - - - - - - - -



*(:D)
 
Shield fell out of my Mini Copperlock two days ago. It's not the usual CASE shield but a union shaped one, a lot of grovelling on the floor ended in locating it under an armchair. Glued back in place but I'm having difficulty in bonding with this one....
 
I had a canal street shield fall of my 2007 canoe a few months back, bad i'ts just glued
applied a drop of loctite and it's still there

are the GEC's pinned? or just fitted better?
Maxx
 
waynorth said:
So, Case sent me the shield I asked for, in two sizes, just in Case!*
CaseLetter.jpg

CaseLetterCU.jpg

I wonder if Susan is a real Case??

Now if I can just not glue it to my finger - - - - - - - - - -



*(:D)
Click to expand...

Seems a little ironic they would include instructions on how to properly install the shield. Perhaps someone on the line didn't get the same memo you got :D
 
How did the surgery go Dr. Campagna? Was there strict adherence? I do hope you cleaned your emblem thoroughly before applying the adhesive.
 
willgoy said:
Shield fell out of my Mini Copperlock two days ago. It's not the usual CASE shield but a union shaped one, a lot of grovelling on the floor ended in locating it under an armchair. Glued back in place but I'm having difficulty in bonding with this one....
Click to expand...

Bonding is a complex issue.
:D:D
 
I picked up a really nice reference book about Case knives yesterday. "Collecting Case Knives -Identification and Price Guide" by Steve Pfeiffer. There is a whole section on shields. There is a paragraph that references the phasing out of pinned shields:

"Beginning in the late 1970's, Case began to discontinue the use of pinned shields. The new process for bone, stag, and wood handled knives was to use an epocy glue to hold the shields in place without the use of pins. I have not been able to determine the exact time that this change was made, but evidently it was phased in over time. I recently examined some Case stag-handled pocket knives from the 1978 "Red Scroll" set. About half of them were observed to have glued-on shields, while the balance had pinned shields. I have observed examples of Case bone-handled knives from 1978 and 1979 with pinned shields, and others from the same years with glued shields. I do believe that by 1980 the pinning of shields was discontinued completely, and all shields were glued on."
 
Wasn't there someone on this forum that talked about popping out the shields on all his new knives, and using 2part epoxy to reattach them? Said it was more secure in the long run.
Granted, you shouldn't have to do this to a new knife. But it was more of peace-of-mind for him.
I will just wait till one of mine falls out and contact the manufacture for a shield. And use a good 2part epoxy. I hope it never comes to that.
 
moonwilson said:
I picked up a really nice reference book about Case knives yesterday. "Collecting Case Knives -Identification and Price Guide" by Steve Pfeiffer. There is a whole section on shields. There is a paragraph that references the phasing out of pinned shields:

Steve's book is a great reading and reference tool, even if you don't collect Case!! One of the best researched and layed-out books to come out since LG4! And the pictures are superb - none of those barely legible black and white catalog scans!
Everyone serious about knives should have one in their library. I have two! One to scribble notes in, and one to keep mint!
Click to expand...
 
Charlie, you ain't lyin! That book is something else. I read it pretty much cover to cover last night- it is fascinating. :thumbup:
 
Well, I dragged the "emblem" (sheesh) across a new file to gouge the surface and provide bite, scraped the bone cavity with a dental chisel, and glued the shield (ahh, that's better) in with ethyl cyanoacrylate. We'll see how that Krazy stuff works!
The patient is cured!! The knife is back in my pocket - all's right with the world!!


Hmmm, what can I complain about next??
 
I recently dropped my Schatt & Morgan Swayback (their description) Wharncliffe on the carpet in our TV room and the shield popped off. I cleaned/sanded the back of the shield and cleaned the impression in the scale and glued the shield back in with "Loctite 380 Black Max". That stuff is really good. It contains "cyanoacrylate". I've used it to re-attach front gun sights on a couple Ruger and Colt SAAs and they haven't fallen off yet.

I'd like to see all shields pinned but I don't think it's likely in the future what with cost cutting measures taken by some knife manufactures to keep prices within reason for the general knife buying public.
 
so.... what's the deal with the CS?

i had a rash of bokers going ' girls gone wild' on me but managed to fix the problem (as long as i found the shield crest) with hot glue. i really wish i had'nt lost the whole knife afterwords. it had a long life.

keith
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top