Western SFO for Craftsman
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 12:35 am
Pick this up at the flea market yesterday, I have never seen a Western SFO made for Sears. I ran the search of the Western forum for the term Craftsman and found the term here two times, so apparently I'm not the first person to have encountered a Craftsman made by Western. The Craftsman I found in the Western forum that actually had a picture of the knife showed a stacked leather handle. This knife is unusual in that the handle is jigged bone, and the jigging also has worm grooves in it. I have not seen many Western branded knives with jigged bone handles, though I know they did make them because I see them in the catalog reprint.
This is the first Western product I have encountered with jigged bone handles.
At either end of the bone slabs are what appears to be hard plastic spacers with what appears to be leather spacers between them, and their is probably a black spacer in there also. Apparently the plastic very hard and virtually indestructible the plastic and the black spacer between the plastic layers was apparently not as indestructible as the plastic. The plastic has been broken in some places but is still very hard. It is probably the hardness that has been responsible for it shipping in certain places.
I would love to hear from some of the Western experts or anyone who knows about the craftsman knives made by Western.
I was thinking of attempting to restore the layers at either end of the bone handle, to make the knife look better for display purposes. However, if these are really rare and valuable I would not want to destroy the value and the uniqueness of the knife.
Please let me know what your opinion is about this knife, especially those of you who are Western collectors.
Thank you very much,
Dale
This is the first Western product I have encountered with jigged bone handles.
At either end of the bone slabs are what appears to be hard plastic spacers with what appears to be leather spacers between them, and their is probably a black spacer in there also. Apparently the plastic very hard and virtually indestructible the plastic and the black spacer between the plastic layers was apparently not as indestructible as the plastic. The plastic has been broken in some places but is still very hard. It is probably the hardness that has been responsible for it shipping in certain places.
I would love to hear from some of the Western experts or anyone who knows about the craftsman knives made by Western.
I was thinking of attempting to restore the layers at either end of the bone handle, to make the knife look better for display purposes. However, if these are really rare and valuable I would not want to destroy the value and the uniqueness of the knife.
Please let me know what your opinion is about this knife, especially those of you who are Western collectors.
Thank you very much,
Dale