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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:02 am
- Forum: Knife Related Q&A
- Topic: What reason for rope blade shape?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 304
Re: What reason for rope blade shape?
ZZ's explanation and narrative is about as professional as you can get. ::tu:: The only type of line he didn't explain about was the "chow line" and how long or short it can be, depending on rank and time of day. :lol: ::nod:: ::paranoid:: "Short" and "Long" chow lines...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Knife Related Q&A
- Topic: What reason for rope blade shape?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 304
Re: What reason for rope blade shape?
Apropos of nothing, since someone mentioned "line" and "rope" in a thread about a rope knife.... In the maritime community, "ropes" fall into 4 categories. Small stuff, lines and hawsers. And "rope". Small stuff is anything less than 1" in diameter. We're...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:23 am
- Forum: General Knife Discussion
- Topic: Help with Western Boulder, Colo.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 135
Re: Help with Western Boulder, Colo.
Answered on the Western forum post.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:51 pm
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: Help with Western Boulder, Colo.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 119
Re: Help with Western Boulder, Colo.
The model number 6490 indicates bone handle covers (6), 4 blades, pattern 90. A knife with a model number was made after 1955, which is when Western FIRST started puttng model numbers on the pile side of the blades. 901 was the updated model number put on the 6490 after model numbering changed aroun...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Knife Related Q&A
- Topic: Help Identifying USN KaBar Fighting Knife
- Replies: 2
- Views: 137
Re: Help Identifying USN KaBar Fighting Knife
It is a WW2 era USN MK2 made by Union Cutlery (KABAR) after the first change order but before the 2nd. Kabar's first shipment AFTER the first change order - a shift from a rounded/threaded tang/pommel assembly with split nut to a round tang/welded pommel assembly method - occurred in April 1943. The...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:24 am
- Forum: Knife Related Q&A
- Topic: What is this knife / bayonet?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 221
Re: What is this knife / bayonet?
The bayonet is a Norwegian AG3 Type 1 bayonet. The sheath is a US M8A1 sheath, appropriate for a US M4, M5, M6 or M7 bayonet. The sheath could have been manufactured under various contracts at any time between 1944 and 1969, when the last contract was let. A close time of manufacture would be depend...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: General Knife Discussion
- Topic: Why carry a pocket knife?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 528
Re: Why carry a pocket knife?
My first exposure to pocket knives was when I was 4. My grandfather demonstrated how to sharpen a pencil. That was my first knife lesson. The second was how to sharpen it. The first weekend I went to visit him after I started first grade, he said "Now that you've started school, you need to hav...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:57 am
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: A Few of My Western's
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13287
Re: A Few of My Western's
Since the knife/fork set has the full bifurcated tang patent number, they are post-1932. (1931 and first 1/2 or 2/3 of 1932 would have PAT APP'l'D FOR and the rest of 1932 would have PAT. PEND.) The bucking cowboy says pre-WW2. It was not used during or after the war to my knowledge. The set does no...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:48 am
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: Western Bird and Trouts - A 28/48 Patterns Timeline
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4854
Re: Western Bird and Trouts - A 28/48 Patterns Timeline
This set has a conundrum. The knives have the model numbers stamped into the guard. It's generally accepted that Western didn't start doing that until 1967, although a couple of anecdotal statements claim that they were gifted guard stamped L39s through S&H Stamp redemptions in the late 1950s. I...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:48 am
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: Western Tang Stamps
- Replies: 63
- Views: 57656
Re: Western Tang Stamps
That's an excellent find, along with a new date for the Ranger line.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: What do I have here?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 874
Re: What do I have here?
Just seeing this thread. Somehow I missed a few back in November. I have no explanation for the lack of ricasso stamps on these knives. They are Westerns and at the time they were made, different model numbers applied than Pxxx. The 48A is a 48BGG and the 48C is a 48CAP. Here's the bad news - it's a...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: newbie wants help identifying knife
- Replies: 8
- Views: 628
Re: newbie wants help identifying knife
Somehow, I missed this one. Sorry about that. Yes this is a post-WW2 46-5. Technically, it is a G46-5, since Western didn't change the model number to L46-5 until 1955, when they started putting model numbers on the pile side ricasso. Since it has a reference to the bifurcated tang patent and MADE I...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 4:12 am
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: Later Western Model Questions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 496
Re: Later Western Model Questions
Just got word back from my Western employee friend. He said that the 900xxx serial numbers would most likely have been for a limited edition or a private run.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 5:41 am
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: Later Western Model Questions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 496
Re: Later Western Model Questions
The Westmark stamp looks right. Looking at your knife, a bell rang in the back of my brain. I forgot that in 1984, Coleman-Western made special stag handled 701s to commemorate taking over Western. Those were sold in a wood/glass display case. The knives had black and gold spacers, special engraving...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:37 am
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: Later Western Model Questions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 496
Re: Later Western Model Questions
From basic knowledge, the Westmark 703 with a stag handle and a 90xxxx serial number was not made during the Western/Coleman-Western eras. No stag handled 70X knives were made for official sale. IF, and it is a big IF, the knife was made in BouIder or Longmont, it would have been a really, really, r...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 2:58 am
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: Later Western Model Questions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 496
Re: Later Western Model Questions
The L71 is a Camillus product. Other than being a newer knife and no year code date, on Camillus knives, the second line reads "U.S.A. Model No." Western and Coleman Western knives read "Model No. U.S.A." The L88 is a 1973-1976 knife. Reference to BOULDER, COLO. was dropped after...
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 5:56 pm
- Forum: General Off Topic Discussion
- Topic: Seiko Electra watch
- Replies: 7
- Views: 514
Re: Seiko Electra watch
Can't help you personally, but... If you don't get your answer here, you might try giving Bob Swanson at The Emporium Antiques store in Pine Mountain GA a call. 706-663-7721 Bob collects watches and posts up his "watch of the day" on his personal FB page. He has a large eclectic collection...
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:30 pm
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: model number
- Replies: 6
- Views: 593
Re: model number
657 from 1955 onward. Prior to 1955, the pattern was 74 and the model was 6374P if it had bone scales or 2374P if it had composition plastic (celluloid) scales. The P indicated that the third blade was a punch.
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 4:55 am
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: Timeframe on this Western Bowie
- Replies: 2
- Views: 303
Re: Timeframe on this Western Bowie
Last 1/3 of 1967 to 1968
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 2:27 am
- Forum: General Off Topic Discussion
- Topic: Garage sale find
- Replies: 5
- Views: 528
Re: Garage sale find
Graham Brown Shoe Company was founded by Guy Graham in 1911 in Dallas, TX. Went out of business in 1994.
The company also had a line of boots "signed" by Tom Mix, an old-school silent movie cowboy. This line was probably made during the late 1910s and 1920s, the height of his career.
The company also had a line of boots "signed" by Tom Mix, an old-school silent movie cowboy. This line was probably made during the late 1910s and 1920s, the height of his career.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:07 am
- Forum: Switchblade Knife Collector`s Forum
- Topic: PIC ? Japan
- Replies: 9
- Views: 478
Re: PIC ? Japan
PIC got started in 1954 and imported sporting goods until the late 1980s or early 1990s - exact date is unknown when they got out of the sporting goods game, shifting to other lines of business.
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 7:40 pm
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: Western Tang Stamps
- Replies: 63
- Views: 57656
Re: Western Tang Stamps
Actually, a little tighter than that - 1931 - 1932.
1932 - 1933 would have been "PAT. PEND." on the pile side ricasso.
Then just "PATENTED" for a bit in 1933, before the actual patent number was issued and stamps made with the patent number.
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 7:04 am
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: Western Tang Stamps
- Replies: 63
- Views: 57656
Re: Western Tang Stamps
1968 to 1972 for sure.
Guard stamped model numbers began in 1967 for some models (W49 for sure) and by 1968 for all, for sure.
Reference to BOULDER, COLO. in the stamp ended in 1972.
Guard stamped model numbers began in 1967 for some models (W49 for sure) and by 1968 for all, for sure.
Reference to BOULDER, COLO. in the stamp ended in 1972.
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 1:15 am
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: ? No. L58 ? Fixed blade
- Replies: 3
- Views: 449
Re: ? No. L58 ? Fixed blade
Yes, Western was putting brown swirl bakelite on pommels before WW2.
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 3:40 pm
- Forum: Western Cutlery Collector's Forum
- Topic: ? WEST-CUT. Puuko ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 511
Re: ? WEST-CUT. Puuko ?
The Western puukos were only made in 1941. The model number for your knife would have been 68BG. Black is not listed in TKMWWW as one of the handle options, but Western had already been making black bakelite handled knives for nearly 10 years by this time. I believe these have bakelite handles, not ...