All About Pocket Knives

Looks like you done just fine at the antique store, Dave!

Wasn't the vendor turn out `I was expecting....only scored these

Looks like a good haul, though, Scott! What was the venue you went to?

tvic wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 7:43 pm Looks like a good haul, though, Scott! What was the venue you went to?

Webster Flea Market, Webster, FL. Open only Monday's and holiday Mondays are usually madness. For some reason this one wasn't.

Found at an estazte sale this morning....

Cost me 5 bucks for the lot.....

Dang, Scott! What a haul! Wish I was as good at finding them as you!

tvic wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 2:05 pm Dang, Scott! What a haul! Wish I was as good at finding them as you!

Thanks bud.

Found these at some pawn shops with my grandson today.

Keep on keeping on, brother!

tvic wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 1:29 pm Keep on keeping on, brother!

TY will do!!

More finds from the pawn shop. The fillet knife was bent after I closely inspected it.....at home

The folder is a BROUS. So smooth and sharp!!

Looks nice, Scott!

I don't "collect" razors but I'll buy an American made one if I see it. Found this KINFOLKS-WEDGE today in Snow Hill,MD.J.O'.

I went overboard at the feed store today. Needed an axe handle for a 3.5-pound model, and I ended up walking out with a Taylor 44OT and a Case hard Arkansas stone as well. The 44OT is one I plan to put through the wringer and give an honest test and evaluation--not carry it twice and give it away in the POS Exchange as I did with the last one (a 5OT). The Case hard Arkansas was just laying loose in the case, and the clerk dropped it closing the Old Timer display, and the acrylic case the stone was packed in got cracked. I decided to go ahead and buy it. The 7Cr the Chinese Old Timers use is so soft, I got a dull spot in the main blade just cutting weed eater string twice, and it took almost no effort to remove the damage using the hard stone.

On closer inspection, the Council head I've had for a while is badly pitted and has some very deep marks towards the poll, also likely due to corrosion or possibly having had the side used as a hammer. Thinking I'll save the handle for a better, less pitted head.

djknife13 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 12:42 am Struch out at the gun/knife show in Duluth, Mn. today so I headed over to the antique shop and found these three, all three for $70. Remington jack, NYK Hammer brand lg stockman, and a Queen Cut. No 19 trapper in burgundy composition. At the gun show I bought two bottles of rhubarb/cherry preservatives. You gotta buy something at a gun show.____DaveDu

If they are in good condition as your picture looks, you found a great deal !

Found it in a dumpster while looking for some cardboard. Probably an employee knife to cut straps. Cheap, but free!!

cody6268 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 11:26 pm The 44OT is one I plan to put through the wringer and give an honest test and evaluation.

Looking forward to reading the results.

Whitneyrifle wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 4:02 pm Found it in a dumpster while looking for some cardboard. Probably an employee knife to cut straps. Cheap, but free!!

I could hardly think of a better beater knife!

Dan In MI wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 7:34 pm

cody6268 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 11:26 pm The 44OT is one I plan to put through the wringer and give an honest test and evaluation.

Looking forward to reading the results.

Whitneyrifle wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 4:02 pm Found it in a dumpster while looking for some cardboard. Probably an employee knife to cut straps. Cheap, but free!!

I could hardly think of a better beater knife!

So far, I found it's got an edge retention problem. I cut weed eater string twice, and got two rolled/chipped places in the main blade--which even SAKs don't get. AG Russell (on the War Eagle Blades line, which may be hardened better) says that 7Cr17MOV is equal to Schrade+ (which depending on the age of the knife is 440A or 420HC); which it's not. Aesthetically, the blade blanks are somewhat crude, and then it is guaranteed the shield will pop out of a Taylor Schrade within a year.

But, the steel is soft and somewhat easily sharpened.

I still don't see the appeal of these vs. Rough Ryders. I've heard many knife dealers say that one of their best sellers is the Taylor Old Timers, and a lot of guys carry them around here. This store tends to move them quite quickly as well. The 440A in my RRs that cost $10-15 less than most Taylor Schrade models tends to hold up to harder use, and the fit and finish is better. All of my RRs are hardened and heat treated as good as any American-made knife (440A that is--T15 Carbon Steel seems to have some QC issues--my Half Hawk holds an edge great, my Folding Hunter is run soft, and I had a pruner that badly chipped pruning one branch).

Even moreso, I've gotten US-made Old Timers and Uncle Henry models in like new shape for a cost equal to or less than what this store charges for the Chinese-made "clones".

I've yet to find a like-new USA Old Timer for the price if a clone. Guess I'd best keep looking. Thanks for the feedback on the clone...seems to confirm my thoughts (that they're vastly inferior to the real deal).

Nice dumpster find, Whitney! What’s the brand? Looks a lot like my Kershaw.

tvic wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:12 pm Nice dumpster find, Whitney! What’s the brand? Looks a lot like my Kershaw.

There are no marks what so ever on the knife, so I am guessing a Chi-com Knock off.

From the Webster Flea Market yesterday....can't make out who the Scout knife is made by.

TripleF wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 1:04 am From the Webster Flea Market yesterday....can't make out who the Scout knife is made by.

Another great haul, Scott !
Have the crowds thinned out? Last winter it was a mad house, wall to wall people.
Might be down that way in a couple of weeks.
Treefarmer

treefarmer wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 1:29 am

TripleF wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 1:04 am From the Webster Flea Market yesterday....can't make out who the Scout knife is made by.

Another great haul, Scott !
Have the crowds thinned out? Last winter it was a mad house, wall to wall people.
Might be down that way in a couple of weeks.
Treefarmer

Oooooooh man, when I pulled in @ 7:45 I said.....oh this ain't good. Very, very, very few vendors. As a matter of
fact, the least I have ever seen!

Probably too hot for some folks and the rest have gone back north.
Treefarmer