WW1 Mess Kit Knife

natchezz

natchezz

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These are pictures I found on the web. I'm wondering if this knife is possibly the inspiration for Kephart's knife, as it appears to be a very similar overall design? Anyone know of any connection to this knife and Kephart? My web search turned up nothing.
 
screened porch screened porch Thanks for pointing me to the Dadley. Looks like you are correct. Found this from BRKT.

“The Dadley was one of the most common knives used during the North American mountian man period of exploration and expansion in both the U.S. and Canada. It was originally designed by John Dadley in Sheffield and he was recruited by John Russell of the Green River Knife Company and moved here to the States. This is actually the root knife of the famed outdoor knife designed in by Horace Kephart that we all now refer to as the Kephart. You can see the similarity instantly. Our special release of the knife is in modern CPM-3V and is about the same thickness as the original. These are .093" thick.”
 
scrteened porch said:
You're welcome. I have one of the Green River ones downstairs. I've been gradually rasping down the big fat handle I put on it as a kid.
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I was pretty close to buying that one when I bought a small batch of Green Rivers recently, but decided I already had enough in my cart. I have always meant to go back and get one. Maybe now’s the time.
 
Henry Beige said:
I was pretty close to buying that one when I bought a small batch of Green Rivers recently, but decided I already had enough in my cart. I have always meant to go back and get one. Maybe now’s the time.
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It's a nice knife. I should use mine more.
afishhunter said:
Wish I could recall how to convert decimals to fractions ... School for me was over 16,060 days ago.
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Fractions is about where I started to go glassy-eyed in math. Reduction to least common denominator, transgressive refractions...
 
scrteened porch said:
Fractions is about where I started to go glassy-eyed in math. Reduction to least common denominator, transgressive refractions...
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True.
I don't remenber "transgressive refractions" at all, at all. Truth to tell, I don't think I want to. Just reading what they called gives me a head hurt and the heebie geebies.
However I can picture 1/64 inch, 1/32 inch; 1/8 inch, 5/16 inch, 1/4 inch and so on up to a hole inch. and if I know what it is as a fraction, the decimal equivalents, like 0.125; 0.250 0.500; 0.625; 0.750.
That ".... .093 inches thick" up in post number 4 has me bamboozled. :oops:

DaRn. "Heebie Geebies" ... "bamboozled" ... I be dating meself as a older than dirt ancient vintage antique. ...
 
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