Let's see some knives from your collection.

[mtngunr]

I need to go to my uncle's store and see if there are any Old Timers left. My uncle along with my father are both gone (RIP) but his store is still there. My cousin (his oldest son) still runs it. I'll bet the same old display case is still there.

After Schrade shut down around 2004 (Camillus, too), S&W and then an importer (Taylor Brands/2004 also) bought the name, selling nearly identical packaged Chinese knives, just as an fyi if looking at any stock.

 

[sumoj275]

We just got back from an extended stay in CA, never so glad to be home out of the high desert. Anyway, on the way home in Amarillo I stopped at The Knife Guys. The kid that was helping me tried very hard and knew basic stuff. The one side of the store was good knives and the opposite was

As someone who played Army as child and adult, other folk's gear was always of interest. This is stuff from our German allies, the top Puma reportedly carried by some GSG 9 (internal special forces) and carried briefly if they had any sense. The next knife is the current military issue knife, this one came out of the stores of a disbanded KSK unit (external special forces), and then the prior issue military knife, the legendary German paratrooper gravity knife which all boys wanted because illegal in my youth, and their former multitool knife.
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Nice, I have a folder from the German army. I always wanted a paratrooper gravity knife. Just didn’t get around to b b it before they dried up and increased in the price.

 

[sumoj275]

Here are 3 that will live in the safe to be passed down. Top is a William Henry received from my employer for a 20 year milestone, the bottom 2 are Ray Kirk’s, also received as gifts.View attachment 533529

I like Ray Kirk’s work. I need to snag one someday.

 

[sumoj275]

I was blanking on name and source...the ones I had were given to some boys for their fun and games. The puukkos are by Marco Lindela of Tommi knife shop later ownership and is "ok", the birchbark version is a masterwork of 80CRV2 by Pasi Hurttila, every part of either knife, including sheaths and their wooden liners done by hand by the puukkoseppa/smith.

@okiebertt Adore the Benchmade balisongs and the Al Mar knives. Glad to see somebody remembers the W49 bowie, it's heavy but excellent distal taper and convex grind, and works with finesse.

@mtngunr

I was blanking on name and source...the ones I had were given to some boys for their fun and games. The puukkos are by Marco Lindela of Tommi knife shop later ownership and is "ok", the birchbark version is a masterwork of 80CRV2 by Pasi Hurttila, every part of either knife, including sheaths and their wooden liners done by hand by the puukkoseppa/smith.

@okiebertt Adore the Benchmade balisongs and the Al Mar knives. Glad to see somebody remembers the W49 bowie, it's heavy but excellent distal taper and convex grind, and works with finesse.

@mtngunr when I can get to my blade bin I’ll be adding some blades including my puukkos.

 

[mtngunr]

Odds and ends, "oh, yeah, forgot about those."

 

[mtngunr]

May have posted some of these already...ah well...

 

[sumoj275]

Odds and ends, "oh, yeah, forgot about those."
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How do you like the LT Wright?

 

[Mr.Glock]

Here are a few of mine. The Buck 180s were issued to us on the Fire Dept a hundred years ago lol! The bottom photo shows a very rare one that Buck only made 50 of them and they were handmade by one of their Engineers, and it was never put into production.

 

[mtngunr]

How do you like the LT Wright?

It probably is excellent for "bushcraft" drills but I find the handle too fat, round, smooth and not much to keep hand off blade not much safer than an wooden old spindle handled Mora, and so it really has just sat in box since arrival, just not my type of knife, where I don't use my old Moras for same reason. It is kept around purely for the 3V blade, the only 3V knife kept.

 

[mtngunr]

Probably my most used knives since '96 and likely of entire life, they are nearly indestructible Carbon V and butchered, skinned, camped, hiked, hunted and kitchened out the whazoo.