Antique Parts Knives

[knife7knut]

Thanks Ray, it was probably snapped off pretty early in its life because the rest of the knife looks hardly used.

The WWI Navy knife is a Cattaraugus

Thanks for the reply D; I have a beautiful little Burkinshaw tuxedo with pearl scales that looks new but one blade is snapped off. Likely a flaw in the heat treating. I have two of those WWI knives;a W.R.Case that someone re-profiled the blade so badly I hadto put a small piece of wood under the tang to keep the blade open far enough to use the nail mark. The other one is a Schatt& Morgan.

[glennbad]

You better lock your door, Dimitri, Glennbad will be there soon wanting some of those shields.

Who, me???

Those are some good looking junkers, Dimitri! The bone is in especially good condition!

[Miller Bro's]

Thanks Glenn, some of these do have beautiful bone

[LongBlade]

Nice pile Dimitri ... despite issues with them one can see some beauty in each of them ... I have a few and despite having some criteria for myself that evolved over time since I started in terms of condition and as you allude to in the OP... Brimfield as you know in my few years of searching has more broken knives than good ones in my experience though some good ones can be found when you are lucky - most are heartbreakers when you see the knife and it is a maker you want... Here is one Brimfield find for me - a Holley with the natural "I" material but like many of yours snapped off above nail nick on pen blade (and I also found a Waterville MOP pen with a unique curved shield and that one had cracks in the MOP and the master was snapped at the nail nick but smaller blade was good - don't have a pic of that one at the moment) - but at the price of literally $1 who would leave these knives sitting in a cigar box pile.... not me

[Miller Bro's]

Thanks Lee

I would have snapped that Holley up to if I had seen it

[Tsar Bomba]

MB that is my kind of junk.What does the NYK toenail look like opened up?

Roger, the pen blade is snapped off at the tang

I can't see any way that would prevent me from carrying that beauty.

If you get tired of it, MB, let me know.

[Martinrusso]

Hi, I'm looking for the backside of a Robeson Red Bone 612, 1940-64. Thanks

[Miller Bro's]

Here's another pile of parts I bought

[Tony_Wood]

Nice piles of parts you are gathering

So, tell me, if a parts knife is kept in a knife roll, is it still a parts knife? Or, must a knife be relegated to a cigar box, or such, to be a parts knife?

[orvet]

Of course I can't speak for others, but I keep my parts knives in fishing tackle trays, in plastic boxes, cigar boxes, drawers, laying on counters and my workbench. Pretty much anywhere I can find a place to put some parts knives, is where I put them.

[knife7knut]

Here's another pile of parts I bought

I see you haven't lost your touch Dimitri! Bring on da parts!

[wlf]

The budding mechanic.

[Miller Bro's]

Nice piles of parts you are gathering

So, tell me, if a parts knife is kept in a knife roll, is it still a parts knife? Or, must a knife be relegated to a cigar box, or such, to be a parts knife?

Thanks Tony

I don't keep them in knife rolls, I have them mostly in plastic bins and a metal file cabinet. Like Dale I have them all over the place!

Where you keep them makes no difference to me if they are a parts knife or not

[Miller Bro's]

I see you haven't lost your touch Dimitri! Bring on da parts!

[Miller Bro's]

The budding mechanic.

Helps me justify buying them!