Western blade delete

[Reverand]

I bought this Western folding hunter off eBay back in the spring. One blade was broken and the handle was cracked. Someone had rubbed the knife down with brown dye, and at first I thought the handles were plastic.
I was able to glue all the pieces back in the handle. You can see it, of course, but it is all complete and not too obvious.
Unfortunately the remaining blade has a lot of pitting, and no tang stamp (the broken blade was the only one with a stamp!)
I am glad to see this knife useable again, and it was a fun project.

Before:

Western - before

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After:

[C-WADE7]

Nice save and very usable still.

[Colonel26]

My favorite brand of two blade hunter! That’s a good save, I bet that thin skinning blade will flat out cut!

[Meridian_Mike]

Great work Reverand!

[glennbad]

That looks nice and slim now, good save!

[TripleF]

Very knice!!

[Gtrclktr-351]

nice save!

[Quick Steel]

Very nice work. Congratulations.

[Quick Steel]

Very nice work. Congratulations.

[Walleye]

That looks like a great everyday user knife, could probably filet a panfish pretty good too.

The lines on that frame are very good. I wonder who really came up with this pattern first? It seems to be distinctly American, and all of the big names like Case, Remington, Buck, Western and I'm sure others have done some version of this pattern. Anyone know the origin of it, or who did it first and when?