All About Pocket Knives

MITCH RAPP wrote: The bolsters and the total design of the knife, screams Rough Rider to me! Don't they look like some of the Rough Riders out there, to you guys?

I'd concur, the blade on one of the trappers seems identical to RR.

I've become really enamored with this design, even though my only personal example is a Chinese Marble's sunfish. When I start moving into making some of my own slipjoints, I'd definitely like to try this pattern- and I'd be building for rugged use foremost. Fellows, on your worn or used up Sunfish ...

2 7/8" Lauri HC blade, that started with a secondary bevel, which I removed after about 4 hours on a coarse diamond plate, so now it is a full single bevel grind, everywhere save the last 4mm of the blade's point where it is convexy. 1/8" brass bolster, yellow poplar handle that was staine...

Looks like an old large microtome knife. They were used to make extremely thin slices of tissues for histologic/pathologic analysis usually with microscopes. (post mortem) If it does have an absolute razor edge and one side is flat, that is almost guaranteed to be a microtome. The large amputation o...

The KaBar and USMC Combat Knife always struck me more as a camp/utility tool foremost, although when the grinding job on the point is done right, it is surprisingly good at poking. I've also seen (owned for awhile) really terrible grinds and heat treat on 80s production KaBars and Ontarios CKs, that...

Something about shiny silver bolsters and black scales and pins. So classy. Great job!

I have the Chinese Imperial Small Trapper and Congress, and they're all right. the finish and construction seems better than the late Imperial Ireland shell-handled knives. Some of the blade final bevels are kind of sloppy changing angle and depth down the length of the blade, I've been experimentin...

I guess it is all about the quality control and however much cost the commissioning company wants to put into it per knife. I've had some very good early CRKT Taiwanese tactical knives no flaws, hmm. So far I haven't spent more than $12 on a Chinese slipjoint, some of those Schrade/Imperials. They'r...

Hobo, a very hearty welcome to you. You do have me curious.....Location: in a Brooks Saddle? Is that like a horse saddle? :? Paul It is a bicycle saddle/seat whose design goes back to 1882, basically thick leather held in tension between front and rear mounts. Not too comfortable initially but brea...

Here is another one. This one depicts Kansas City Missouri, I don`t know what the buildings are, anyone know? Has to be someone else out there with some of these, come on guys break them out :lol: That building is the Kansas City Union Station, 3/4 view from the front-left side. The Station opened ...

My first real-ish knife project/mod. I bought it cheap with the blaze-red plastic chili-pepper shaped handles, and immediately removed them, making tracings of their layout. I used some 70 year old scrap maple, and the original brass screws, added some washers I made from brass sheet, and a brass sp...

Responding to this long dead topic for halloween - I'll have to throw in for the Opinel. I'm not a giant fan of the handle, but the blade steel in the carbon models and the flat but really slightly convex single bevel grind- it is essentially a Dexter-Russel wide boning knife that you can carry in y...

Long time knife aficionado just entering my 40s. I like Barlows and Trappers, Douk-Douks and Opinels, Cases, US GI pocket knives, Scandinavian fixed blades like Puukkos, Leukus, (own a couple Helles and Moras) Some of the vintage and some new Schrades, Russel Green Rivers (dont have any of their fol...