Your newest addition:traditionals of course!

cjtamu said:
Boy, been AWOL for a few days and don't know how I'll ever catch up. Busy weekend, including estate sales. There were a few knives: 1) Cracked ice Imperial Toothpick; 2) Imperial pen knife. Kim's; 3) Christmas Tree Case #18 100th Anniversary Stockman. Kim's; 4) Schrade+ 285UH; 5) Schrade N. Y. U.S.A. 293; 6) Schrade U.S.A 96OT; 7) Craftsman Stockman, haven't done any research on this yet; 8) Buck 119 C. No idea what the C stands for; 9) Imperial Lambsfoot. Not from the estate sale, picked this up at a little store on the way home. Kim's. Another fun weekend. Will add detail as I get them cleaned up and we carry them. The first two Imperials cleaned up beautifully :)
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That Craftsman stockman you picked up is almost a dead ringer for this Frontier I have. Wonder if their related? Nice haul BTW:cool::thumbsup:
 
HFinn said:
I can't say that this is a new addition, because I bought it 30 years ago when traveling in North Lapland, Inari, on our honeymoon. If I remember right it is made by local smith (Laiti, if I'm right). I gave it to my son for his boyscout expeditions about 10 years ago and now he returned it. Dull and the sheath has some surface damage, so I have some work ahead. I don't know what to do with the sheath. There is enough leather left in the worn area, so maybe I will just put on some color and wax, and say it has some character. Still, I was happy to see this again, it reminds me of our long journey together with my wife.

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I asked some questions about this knife on a Finnish puukko site. Conserning the sheath the advice was just to put on some leather grease and wax and leave it at that. Brothers Laiti made these at Outakoski (https://goo.gl/maps/dJ37StcjnFVEugSN8) and these were valued by raindeer herders as workmanlike tools.
 
Just bought this 2012 Case Muskrat SS, which the local store acquired through some wheelin' and dealin' with a collector. Yeah, Pat told me, "You should have been here a few days ago while I still had the really pretty ones!" Probably a good thing I didn't see them. I think this one is still pretty nice despite the crack (which looks worse in the photo than in person). Anyway...

I really need some help identifying what color bone this is. I've searched as much as I can and can't turn up anything. The jigging is kind of like what you see on bonestag, and the covers have quite a bit of "swell" in the center such as you might find with stag. As you can see, there is no shield. I wasn't able to find any pictures of a Muskrat without a shield, or anything near this color. Pretty sure it's not Bermuda Green or Hunter Green, or Emerald Green. Might be Sea Green, I suppose, but I can't find anything in that color with no shield.

EDIT: I found it : Deep Canyon Jigged Calypso Bone.

(Forgot to wipe the fingerprints off...)

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Misplaced Hillbilly said:
I carried mine yesterday, I think you're gonna like it. The only downside was my caplifter wouldn't grab a cap as well as I'd like, but a small adjustment with a jeweler's file solved that:thumbsup:
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I have one heck of a time getting my caplifter open, lol. Good to know about the file idea, thanks! Any ideas on how to loosen up that spring?
 
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I've not had to relieve a spring but I seen mention of it, I believe the person who mentioned they done it got the advice from @glennbad . If anyone knows I'm sure he does:thumbsup: All of the blades on mine are decent pull wise, none to stiff and none limp wristed either. The hook for the caplifter was to rounded on the tip and would slip off a bottle cap. I just looked to see where it made contact and filed a small "V" notch there. Grabs them no problem now
 
HFinn, Like the Leuku you posted in #13056. I have a smaller version (5-inch blade) also made by Jooseppi & Hans Laiti, in Utsjoki, Finland. How long is the blade on your Leuku? John
 
hornetguy said:
These three Queens arrived last week, and I just now got to photograph them.... three more to add to my "winterbottom bone" group.... the little one in this group is smaller than a Case peanut.... it's a tiny little double pen knife...don't know what the official designation would be, but it looks like a double pen blade to me...

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That's a nice set of Queens. :cool::thumbsup:
Winterbottom Cutlery Works sold jigged bone to a number of cutlery firms, including Queen. Here's a link to an article about the history of "Rogers Bone" and "Winterbottom Bone" by Bernard Levine:
http://www.knife-expert.com/bonehand.txt
 
r8shell said:
That's a nice set of Queens. :cool::thumbsup:
Winterbottom Cutlery Works sold jigged bone to a number of cutlery firms, including Queen. Here's a link to an article about the history of "Rogers Bone" and "Winterbottom Bone" by Bernard Levine:
http://www.knife-expert.com/bonehand.txt
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Thanks for the link.... I didn't know there was a Winterbottom Cutlery. I just assumed :rolleyes: that it was sort of a proprietary Queen style.
I just saw a relatively new Case Canoe knife on the bay that was advertised with winterbottom bone. It wasn't quite as dramatic as most of the Queen bone I've seen, but it still had the basic pattern, long grooves.
There is also a "Jowika" on there, a sort of lower end knife made in Ireland, with the winterbottom. There's a lot more of it out there than I realized.
Much to learn....
 
27E5D52E-AA4D-473D-B0C4-6C0EB3BEC416.jpeg This 35 Farm and Field Calf Pen is my newest traditional.

I really can’t believe I held out so long to get one of these and surprised that there are still so many available.

This knife is definitely a bit of a weirdo but so far I dig it a lot.
The only downside is that I find it necessary to carry this in a leather slip which really isn’t a big deal.

I like using the one arm blade on my 15 but I am not sure if I will modify this one so it it is not so grabby, and if I grind down the point I can go without a slip.

All in all this is a solid knife and although not as fancy as a Northfield it is just as well built as any other GEC knife.
 
My fondness for 3-blade whittlers continues. Fresh from the exchange (after I did a little clean-up and blade sharpening) is this Colonel Coon humpback whittler. Don't have a lot of info on it. Probably made by Queen (like Tuna Valley and Robeson) and would assume that the blades are 420 or 440. Fit and finish is not quite on par with the Tuna Valley or Robeson humpbacks (but commensurate with their price point), but a nice little whittler, nonetheless.

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d.r.h. said:
My fondness for 3-blade whittlers continues. Fresh from the exchange (after I did a little clean-up and blade sharpening) is this Colonel Coon humpback whittler. Don't have a lot of info on it. Probably made by Queen (like Tuna Valley and Robeson) and would assume that the blades are 420 or 440. Fit and finish is not quite on par with the Tuna Valley or Robeson humpbacks (but commensurate with their price point), but a nice little whittler, nonetheless.

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I like that a lot !!! A LOT
 
Here's another new one. 2008 Case baby doctor’s knife with Texas Bois d’arc covers (I guess Case thought it sounded classier than just calling it Osage orange!!) and Texas shield. Probably came from a mint set, as it is numbered ... No. 59.

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Just scored this one on that certain auction site. Cost me the least of all my knives and is quite possibly the best in terms of F&F, etc. It also just feels right in my hand and I also love spey main blades. Some TLC and a tune-up and what started out as a plain Jane ended up like this......
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