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- Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: Shapleigh diamond edge salesman samples
- Replies: 12
- Views: 240
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: Will Flitz Remove Blade Etch
- Replies: 10
- Views: 272
Re: Will Flitz Remove Blade Etch
I'll use this Krakauer stockman as an example, I believe this to be acid etched. Is this a candidate for a manual application of flitz with a microfiber cloth?
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: Will Flitz Remove Blade Etch
- Replies: 10
- Views: 272
Will Flitz Remove Blade Etch
I've never been a Flitz or a Semichrome user, curious if Flitz takes an etch off a blade if you try and remove some of the surface staining/grime using Flitz
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: KA-BAR Knife Collector's Forum
- Topic: 4 blade stockman most recent find
- Replies: 19
- Views: 428
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: KA-BAR Knife Collector's Forum
- Topic: 4 blade stockman most recent find
- Replies: 19
- Views: 428
Re: 4 blade stockman most recent find
Yes it is the Union Cutlery proprietary punch blade. It isn't very concave like most, one side is convex with more of a chisel grind and one side is flat.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: KA-BAR Knife Collector's Forum
- Topic: 4 blade stockman most recent find
- Replies: 19
- Views: 428
4 blade stockman most recent find
Really liking this one, first Union/KA-BAR for me in a while
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: are bobc mechanisms difficult
- Replies: 11
- Views: 306
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 1:31 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: are bobc mechanisms difficult
- Replies: 11
- Views: 306
Re: are bobc mechanisms difficult
Is the back spring normal? It looks odd,too high at the blade. Maybe it’s broke? Pin broke? Yes I know its worn out, it is a button open button close mechanism, it doesn't have a lock plate - the rocker goes all the way up and meets the tang. Without seeing the inner workings, I believe it is like ...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: are bobc mechanisms difficult
- Replies: 11
- Views: 306
Re: are bobc mechanisms difficult
Doesnt keep it open either, I can fold it closed without pushing the button in
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:50 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: are bobc mechanisms difficult
- Replies: 11
- Views: 306
are bobc mechanisms difficult
I have this recent find, the button close mechanism won't retain the blade. Its in nice shape overall despite the bug bite, the pin is very stable at that location.
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: This any good?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 674
Re: This any good?
that was a great lot on ebay, good score for you at that price if it's the one I'm thinking of.
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:45 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: Trying to correctly identify this blade
- Replies: 10
- Views: 496
Re: Trying to correctly identify this blade
It looks good to me, I wouldn't do anything with it. It's an early New York City brand importer. A nice and rare one. The daylight between the scales and the liners has more to do with a slightly bent liner but if it doesn't impinge the spring/blade from firing I would leave it be. Some people apply...
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 6:27 pm
- Forum: General Knife Discussion
- Topic: Mystery Knife Game
- Replies: 9626
- Views: 329854
Re: Mystery Knife Game
Humason and Beckley (H&B)
Landers Frary & Clark (LF&C)
Landers Frary & Clark (LF&C)
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 4:24 am
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: Mini Switchblades
- Replies: 7
- Views: 607
Re: Mini Switchblades
Love the biggest one
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 2:53 am
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: Omega switchblade
- Replies: 11
- Views: 681
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 3:12 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: Omega switchblade
- Replies: 11
- Views: 681
Re: Omega switchblade
I love Omegas, sweet knife. If you ever decide to part with it please keep me in mind. Its a size I don't have.
I also have lots to trade if you collect slip joints and other traditional knives
I also have lots to trade if you collect slip joints and other traditional knives
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 5:31 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: Leverletto that I found thrifting. Need help identifying.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 740
Re: Leverletto that I found thrifting. Need help identifying.
I don't know if the stamp is authentic, but it looks like it says "KLAAS" in a crown, with "ROBT KLAAS" underneath. That would be Robert Klaas, a German knife seller known for the Kissing Crane brand. Mr. Klaas also used a three pointed crown as a logo. The term "Rostfrei&q...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:56 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: Leverletto that I found thrifting. Need help identifying.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 740
Re: Leverletto that I found thrifting. Need help identifying.
wow that looks interesting like a medici knife but with the head of a bird
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 3:09 pm
- Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
- Topic: Easy Openers with or without a Bail
- Replies: 207
- Views: 19143
Re: Easy Openers with or without a Bail
love the swedges on this one
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 1:25 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: Ackermannchen picklock
- Replies: 14
- Views: 691
Re: Ackermannchen picklock
thumbnailsBill DeShivs wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 4:36 am Not necessarily.
If a shop was set up to make picklocks, their equipment wasn't worn out, and they could compete financially-what would be the impetus to change?
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 11:39 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: 60s era Italian Stiletto variety
- Replies: 22
- Views: 937
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 9:23 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: 60s era Italian Stiletto variety
- Replies: 22
- Views: 937
Re: 60s era Italian Stiletto variety
I believe the Martinuzzos in Maniago made the Kissing Crane coil spring autos. Bill! There's a small "earless" lockback model with stag covers for sale in an AAPK store that looks very much like the one in the picture, and the seller described it as coming from the Belgian market, does th...
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 6:43 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: Ackermannchen picklock
- Replies: 14
- Views: 691
Re: Ackermannchen picklock
wouldn't a picklock have been replaced by a swivel bolster by the very early 60s?Bill DeShivs wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 6:42 pm The Ackermannchen autos seem to be from the late 1960s-early 1970s. I got a new one brought to me from Switzerland around 1970. It was the stylized model, not the Italian stiletto type.
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 6:33 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: Ackermannchen picklock
- Replies: 14
- Views: 691
Re: Ackermannchen picklock
It would be cool to get this one a new lease on life it was in a box of stuff and not stored properly but it has good bones.
I think any pick lock is worth getting sorted out even if its a later one
I think any pick lock is worth getting sorted out even if its a later one
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 8:44 pm
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: Ackermannchen picklock
- Replies: 14
- Views: 691
Re: Ackermannchen picklock
I just love the knives I don't know much about them