Yeller handles.

[J33psru1e]

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[thawk]

An old yeller knife or old yeller dog sounds kinda folksy to me.

 

[Blues]

I forgot to add my "off yellow" ivory micarta handled sodbuster by K.R. Johnson.

 

[JatMat]

Does this count as old yeller, I don't think it started out this color, but after 30 years or so it is what it is.

 

[ahgar]

gotta love a yellow handled knife. back when i worked on an ambulance you wouldn't believe how many geezers {yeah i know disrespectful term but i'm one so i can use it}had a yellow handled knife on the dresser. right now i've got a large stockman, medium stockman, sodbuster jr, and that's it. I'm looking for a yellow peanut and i can die a happy man. well maybe not die but i'd still be a happy man.

 

[rifon2]

Love the smooth yellow bone Moore Makers.

Have 3 of them, and I'm eying another.

Don't really know what gets to me about them, but they are some of my favorite handle
scales on a production traditional knife. (Also really like buffalo horn.)

 

[mnblade]

I was using my soddie to cut up some turkey ham(?), and I noticed afterwards that my soddie took on a bluish hue in the blade. After trying to remove the patina and realizing it had become pretty darn permanent, this is another cool discovery for me.

Yeah, man, that Case CV steel is a trip to watch patina. When it's new(ish) it's always changing colors and hues. An amazing technicolor tie-dyed steel, if you will.

But to the original topic ...... I always kind of poo-pooed yellow-handled knives. Just thought they were sorta fugly and the whole "you can find them if you drop them" thing was a bit of hype. Fast-forward to a year of so ago when I got a yellow CV Case soddie jr. in a trade. Instantly, I "got" it; I fell in love with the knife and with Case's line of CV yellow knives. More recently I made a trade with a fellow here on the forum: My brown bone-handled Boker trapper for his Case CV yellow trapper - you know, THE classic trapper. Same as with the soddie jr., where once I was a skeptic, all I had to do was open the package and say, "yessssss!" So, count me among the yellow devotees. And my wife says I'm incapable of changing!

 

[KnifeHead]

.....But I still want a Knutbuster
Jim[/QUOTE]

Actually...it's [B]Kh[/B]nutbuster and I hear about these mythical knives so much I am starting to want one too. As it turns out, that's been a pretty good name for that knife. :D

[SIZE="1"]BTW...The list is reaching biblical proportions and you would be somewhere in the middle of the book of Exodus[/SIZE]:thumbup::cool:

 

[Lycosa]

My Dad had a Yellow folder. That's a great classic color. Me---Red!

 

[Grateful]

I have several yellow handled Case knives. My Grandad gave me a Case 3318 when I was a boy so me and yellow handles go way back.

 

[JD Mandrell]

Everyone needs some yeller knives!

Even some of them "modern" knives can benefit from some color improvement!

 

[jackknife]

Dang TLC, you don't loose many knives in the woods do ya?

 

[Absintheur]

Well...it may not be "traditional" but it certaintly is yellow...a Spyderco Catcherman

 

[artdeg]

Does this count as old yeller, I don't think it started out this color, but after 30 years or so it is what it is.

What was the original material made of ?

 

[puukkoman]

As far as I know (and that's not my knife, so take it with a grain of salt), the Al Mar knives are/were made with Micarta (when they didn't use MOP or jigged bone).
James, what color was it initially?

 

[Will Power]

TLC very nice spectrum of yellow in your knives there:thumbup:

Got a BM Mini Grip myself and that's useful when dropped in the bushes. Moderns borrow from Traditionals

Bark River has a scale colour they refer to as Rescue Yellow.

CASE yellow handled Sodbuster, Pen-Knife and Barehead Trapper are my trio. Thing about yellow is that it looks Old School even from new and that's got to be good:thumbup:

 

[338375]

It's funny, I always thought that it was just me... I like the yellow knives. I have a few? Case and Schrades in yellow. When I was younger for some reason, I always prefered the yellow ones. Still have a soft spot for them.

 

[JatMat]

What was the original material made of ?

It has been at least 30 years since I purchased it. I think the handles were white. But have no idea of composition. One side is darker than other due to being exposed to the light.
Wish I knew more.
Jim

 

[T.A.DAVISON]

Here is a yeller handle one I made a while back.
Some great look'n yeller knives here folks.

Todd

 

[Will Power]

Look at the pins and file on THAT:thumbup: