All About Pocket Knives

I carry a Hen & rooster whittler and I beat the heck out of it but that German solingen steel holds up awesome. I keep it clean but I use it.

i know where there is a red bone hen and rooster whittler is. i may get it if i can do some trading for it.

Yeah Im interested. PM me with your likes

will do gino, i may get it tommorrow if im not too busy to go to the flea market.

Thanks and let me know what your interested in too. if I have it I will send some pics.

will do bro. be well and many good knife finds to ya.

LOL Thanks I am hurtin now with no flea market for the last few weeks and no more till march or so.

hey y'all just picked up a schrade commerative/schrade scrimshaw stockman mint no box but unsharpened and uncarried. it is marked schrade usa sc505 on the tang of the main blade and 1894-1994 purina feeds with a string of silhouete animals on the reverse. here are a few pics.

I'll have to use a file photo because I won't have this in my hands till Christmas morning (good Lord willing). I'm loving these old Imperials! Sorry about the picture size..I'm at a different computer and not sure about resizing...

not sure why the pics came out yellow but the knife has white handles must be a camera setting or something.

Looks like a really fine piece Greg! Nice old bone scales and if the pile side is as good as the mark side, you got a real fine knife waitin for ya under the tree! Even got a little bail on it too A winner all the way!

S-46, here's another shot. Seller says everything is tight and "walks and talks" nicely... That's two nice Imp's ole Santa is leaving fer me!

Oh yeah she's tight alright!

Went to the local gun show this past weekend and found this Western Trapper. Knife showed a lot of character, blades have a lot of wear but still a very usable knife. My first trapper and the price ( $3.00 ) was great. Brought it home, put a little elbow grease behind it, and I like it. A lot! Bull

hey bull i love them old knives myself, i only gave 10.00 for my oldest a 1897-1902 gowanda s and m. great find there.

Greg,that sure is a pretty one. ....do you think thats the original master blade?

Pesh: Thanks for the positive comments about my Western Trapper. Right back at you and your Schrade ( Purina Chow ). Fine lookin' knife! My Western has excellent blade snap. No wobble, took a nice edge. Bull

hey guys sometimes i feel like that old trapper im worn and have been sharpened alot but i still got a lot of snap.

johnnierotten wrote:Greg,that sure is a pretty one. ....do you think thats the original master blade?

I have no idea...I've not been at this very long, but that's the first Imperial I've seen with what looks to be a wharncliffe-ish main blade. All my other Imp's have a spear point main....what's your thoughts?

I've always seen the spear blade also...but it doesn't look to have been tampered with.(That I can tell from the pic).
Wish I could say for sure but I'm not that experienced with Imperials.
Either way..its a cool old knife.

I bought two easy open Imperials last week, one is pictured above and the other is almost identical only with a spear point main blade....it showed up today in the mail and I a happy camper! Bone scales just about as good a fit and condition you can get, and both blades snap like a trap, plus not much wear on either one. It does appear the blades had some crud on them and someone wire wheeled or sanded on them which left a dull flat finish....so I say to myself "self....after you clean and degrease that bad boy, why don't you try a dab or two of gun blue paste on that blade and see how that looks"...so I did and wow! I like it! I did both blades and now have them oiled up and resting, hopefully I load a picture in the next day or so...

Don't keep us waitin too long Greg, we get very impatient round here when it comes to knives!

singin46 wrote:Don't keep us waitin too long Greg, we get very impatient round here when it comes to knives!

My doggone usb port doesn't work and I was using my daughters laptop till she repossessed it from me (lol) and I don't have one of them fancy phones that you post pictures from...so it may be a day or so....

ky greg wrote: have no idea...I've not been at this very long, but that's the first Imperial I've seen with what looks to be a wharncliffe-ish main blade. All my other Imp's have a spear point main....what's your thoughts?

johnnierotten wrote:Greg,that sure is a pretty one. ....do you think thats the original master blade?

Greg,

What you have there is a U.S Navy General Utility Knife, WW II era.

The blade is worn down or has been reshaped, it should be a spear point blade.

These knives are well made and have very nice jigged bone on them.

Very nice

Here is what I found last Saturday. My first fight'n rooster, a whittler. Can anyone date it or make an educated guess?