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Old Winchester bone
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 12:10 am
by 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:
Re: Old Winchester bone
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 12:17 am
by 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.
Re: Old Winchester bone
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 1:06 am
by FRJ
Beautiful bone on those old, good looking, knives. Nice old timey stuff.
Re: Old Winchester bone
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 2:47 am
by doglegg
FRJ wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2026 1:06 am
Beautiful bone on those old, good looking, knives. Nice old timey stuff.
X2
Re: Old Winchester bone
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 7:33 am
by 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.
Re: Old Winchester bone
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 2:24 pm
by stockman
Really nice old knives!
Harold
Re: Old Winchester bone
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 4:30 pm
by wlf
Old bone looks good.
Re: Old Winchester bone
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2026 4:56 pm
by 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.
Re: Old Winchester bone
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2026 2:36 am
by doglegg
knifeaholic wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2026 4:56 pm
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.
Re: Old Winchester bone
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2026 2:56 am
by 1967redrider
msteele6 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2026 12:10 am
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.
The jigging resembles a Chevron pattern, I've also seen it called C. Platts jigging. 
