All About Pocket Knives

Thanks Charlie ! I’ll give that a whirl as well as posting in another forum.
-Greg

RobesonsRme: Thank you for your very complete information on Robeson’s Knives! I’m still going through my Grandfather’s knives he collected and used throughout his life and came across the large Barlow style ‘Daddy’. I used your info provided to determine composition of liners/scales, etc. as your c...

WOW! Thank you so much guys for your comments ! I felt like I was sitting at a symposium on specific antique knives.
I’ll definitely look for that catalogue, great info! Thx so much!
-Greg

RobesonsRme:
I was actually a Tank Commander during those years on M60A1s and M551s. ... Germany and Korea respectively.
Thx for asking.
-Greg

Learned something new today. That indeed the Rizzutos are made in Japan. Didn’t know much about them as a kid, only what the Mexican artisan told me as I watched him put those knives together in his shop in Nogales. I mostly collected Italian stilettos later in life, but I just had to have the small...

Correction ... the Rizzutos I believe are Italian parts, but assembled in Mexico and Korea. (Purchased personally from the artisans who assembled them)

66450156-A2CC-4F80-B21E-E65C59194EFF.jpeg Just thought I’d share some of my favorite autos. Not an Italian in the bunch here. From top to bottom: -Mini Gimel-Bargeon -Small Rizzuto Estiletto -Medium Korean Rizzuto style -Medium Gimel-Bargeon All look like they should be under the retail sales count...

Thank you for your comments! My Grandfather was an Engineer for Mountain Bell Telephone for decades back in Colorado (aside from being a Big Game guide in the Rockies.). He was NEVER without his little pocket slide rule and was precision oriented. He also left me an 1858 Junior Artillery Officer’s s...

Thanks so much for comments about my son who passed. He was unique to say the very least. We lost him 12-09-2007. Still seems like yesterday, but he’d want his memory sprinkled with a generous amount of humor and absolutely no pity.
Thx again !
-TnqCmdr

Bestgear and Gunsil: thank you so much for your comments ! Using my 50X handheld ‘microscope’, I couldn’t detect any number or letter that may identify this knife further. Good suggestion though! Just narrowing down when these knives may have been made was more than I knew when posting my question. ...

Hello esteemed knife gurus ! I have a question that I cannot seem to find on the net and before I purchase my next knife book, I thought somebody might know the answer. As you can see in my pics, I have what I’ve tracked down as a Jack (3 3/8”), swell end 2-blade L F & C with celluloid scales in...

Hello Alabama and Eveled ! I’ve carried the K55 for decades as my best utilitarian knife. I’ve had both thevstainless and carbon blades - prefer the carbon as I sharpen that blade maybe 4 times a month for a scalpel like edge. I made the mistake of ‘dropping’ my Kay in a bare instep (wearing sandals...

Thank you ALL for great comments and insights. Dyed bone..... I like that and stands to reason. Thx for that. I bought it for my teenage son as he loved it the minute he saw it. He passed away at age 20 before he could use it ... complications from double-lung transplant ... Cystic Fibrosis just wou...

Just a few of my Switches I’ve collected that I will soon put up for sale. I went through a phase where I fileworked anything that moved, so you’ll see filework on the French knives. The Bargeons fire very very quickly and lock up tight. The Korean ‘Rizzuto style’ I sent home from Korea in 1978 and ...

Hello all ! I’ve had this Bowie with sheath for nearly 10 years now and have tried to find one similar all across the net, especially with the blonde horn scales with twinges of blue. Nothing. There is absolutely no wear on this knife or sheath, I haven’t sharpened it, looks like a drop point with f...

Love all the attention to detail miniatures are given by their creators. I recently acquired some of my Grandfather’s knives he kept in 2 cigar boxes he collected (and used) during his life. Here are three that caught my eye I’d like to share with ya’ll. The abalone scales are gorgeous in the sun, ....

New member here. I recently acquired a few of my Grandfather’s knives ... one of which is the Press Button Knife/fork combo bolster switch release. As a kid, I remember he packed this knife in his mess kit when he worked as an Elk and Bear guide in the Rockies when living in Colorado Springs. My mom...

Thx Tazman !

Cleaning my garage shelves today, found my Mosin Nagant 91/30 spike bayonet I had installed a Brass Stacker heavy steel grip in basically turning it into a short sword. The grip is solid lathed steel that fits tightly into the bayonet channel a normal 91/30 barrel would fit into when the Soldier ‘fi...

Hello ! Sold mine years ago I had purchased from BUDK back in 2000 ... been kicking myself in the keester ever since. ::dang:: Would like to buy or trade for yours if you’re ready to part with it. I’ve owned and traded some real antique Navaja ‘ratchets’, but am strangely attracted to this heavy dut...

One of four Gimel-Bargeon’s I’ll soon put up for sale. All of my automatics I left in Phoenix AZ when I moved to California 19 years ago. All are behind glass in shadow boxes taking up space in my sister’s storage shed in a foot locker. Once I visit Phoenix soon, I’ll dig them out, take some photos ...

Glad to be a part of this esteemed group ! Looking to listen and learn about all things ‘blades’. Allot of my knives I collected over the years I had to leave in AZ as California knife laws are waaaay too restrictive to confidently carry. For years I carried a Spyderco original run Meerkat for daily...