Old Winchester bone

[msteele6]

I have mainly collected Keen Kutters for the past 20 or so years, however, in my collecting I started looking at Winchesters and often couldn't see the difference (which made sense since they were made in the same plant). Anyway, some of the older Winchesters have a distinctive bone jigging pattern that I love, I've managed to collect a few of them and here they are:

[knifeaholic]

Yes I have a few like that. They do seem to be unique whereas some - maybe later ones - have bone that is identical to the bone on the Keen Kutters that also came from the Walden factory. Maybe these are earlier and had more of a Napanoch influence? I have no idea.

[FRJ]

Beautiful bone on those old, good looking, knives. Nice old timey stuff.

[doglegg]

Beautiful bone on those old, good looking, knives. Nice old timey stuff.

X2

[msteele6]

Thanks for the comments. I've come to suspect that the bone has some connection to Napanoch as well, however, no real evidence. These knives seem a little more robust than the Winchesters that are Walden made, lot of long pulls not typical of Walden.

[stockman]

Really nice old knives!

Harold

[wlf]

Old bone looks good.

[knifeaholic]

Here is one that arrived in the mail a couple of days ago - believe it or not, I bought it on Facebook Marketplace.

This is what I call the later bone, from the Walden/Keen Kutter era.

[doglegg]

Here is one that arrived in the mail a couple of days ago - believe it or not, I bought it on Facebook Marketplace.

This is what I call the later bone, from the Walden/Keen Kutter era.

Love a punch blade and looks good with those handles.

[1967redrider]

I have mainly collected Keen Kutters for the past 20 or so years, however, in my collecting I started looking at Winchesters and often couldn't see the difference (which made sense since they were made in the same plant). Anyway, some of the older Winchesters have a distinctive bone jigging pattern that I love, I've managed to collect a few of them and here they are:tempImagew7Xm3T.jpg

Awesome collection of Winchesters. The jigging resembles a Chevron pattern, I've also seen it called C. Platts jigging.