All About Pocket Knives

Terrific knife Mike,and guess what,it just suits you.

Great Score SK!!! A truly lovely and rare piece. That is a crown jewel of scout knives.

Nice "farmers" WLF (as expected )

gsmith : Good looking group of Empires and hope the collection keeps growing.

ScoutKnives : Beautiful pearl scout knife.

Man if you only have one that would be the one to have!

btrwtr wrote:Man if you only have one that would be the one to have!

My sentiments exactly !

Thanks Y'all , it's an awesome knife and I feel very fortunate to have it in my collection .

Love this thread. You guys have some nice looking Empires! These two are my contribution.

Wow Randy those are a couple real nice ones .

Mike

Randy, I really like that Empire Barlow.

About any Empire is a good one, nice Randy.

Thanks guys! Wished I could afford to buy more.

Randy, love the Empire Barlow.

Picked up this Empire easy open in ebony.

Nice old ebony EO Jack John. A classic look with the spear master and badge shield.

Nice one JohnR!

JohnR's EO does not have a spear master. I stand corrected.

Thanks guys, Steve, I thought the master was a spear, it does have a different shape than some of my other spears,what would you call it?

What would you call but a spear blade?

Isn't the spear in the back position? I didn't think so at first but in looking at again when I made the post, it looked like it was in the back position.

Aside from that, can a back position blade on a jack knife be the master? If so, then I clearly don't know what I'm talking about.

That happens a lot.

Steve, the pen is in front of the main but I think the larger blade is still called the main, I know on my Case Barlows they changed the position of the pen from front to back over the years and the larger was still the main. Of course I could be wrong also

Another great pickup, John! IMHO the master can be on the pile side of a jack.
Dan

Per our terminology tab in Research, the master is the largest blade in a multi blade knife.

So the spear is the master. Of course, the knife already knew that.

I apologize for the distraction.

Nice E/O John! Love those old Empires.

Here's a couple of so so Empires I just picked up . An ebony cattle knife and an ebony equal end jack.

Nice ones, Greg.
In my opinion so so is a big deal if it's an Empire. One of the best.

They are amazing Joe . Well worn but the half stops and the snap of the blades is a testament to what a quality knife they were.