My first electrician's knife---

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Brian.Evans

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But not my last!!

I think I have found a pattern to add to stockmans and peanuts as one of my favorites. I bought this Camillus knife at an antique store the other day. They have another one with the next newer style of tang stamp that I might go back and pick up. I liked the patina on the main blade better on this one.

I LOVE THIS PATTERN! What a cool knife. Slipjoint and liner lock in one.

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I want to buy more of this pattern. It may bump out my Vic/SAK Tinker as my backup knife. It seems like it would be heavy duty and really handy.

If you have one or more of these knives, post them up here! I'd love to see them.
 
Oh boy, you stepped in it now. The TL-29 is a classic. Here are a few of mine (I have some others somewhere). ;)

IMHO, Camillus made the best. Better than my Queen.

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Red third from the left was the knife that started me collecting again. Perfect knife.
 
Nice one. I don't recall that inlet being a factory mod. Has anyone seen others like this, or was this one field modded?

Glenn
 
Was a Union Electrician in NYC for 3 years

Had a Colonial on my work pouch for all that time of daily use
That was the only brand the Supply Houses carried
 
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My Dad's knife. With a special mod on the secondary blade. He was a corrugated container designer and he rounded the screwdriver blade off for scoring the sheet for samples. Well used, now a well-loved part of my small collection.
 
Richard, can you shoot me an email? medicevans@gmail.com

Glenn, my fat thumb wouldn't fit where I had a enough of a bite on the nail nick without breaking my nail, so I modified it. I went about .002" too deep at the top, but otherwise the knife went from being unusable to perfect for me. I need to find the appropriate sized dowel and sand the notch up to the level of the rest of the scales.

I also had to adjust the krink with a hammer, chisel, and piece of leather because the blade rubbed hard against the outside liner. Hard enough to the point where I wouldn't have been able to keep it sharp.
 
I have a silly question. What is the rounded part on the spine of the secondary blade meant for?
 
On the back side of the secondary blade? It allows you to get a fingernail on the nail nick. Works pretty well.
 
Here's one I found at a flea market in a box of rusty tools...it cleaned up nice ...
when I found it I was reminded of working summers for my unkles...carpenters and roofers...they all seemed to have one and used them hard...


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Sitflyer, the Robeson is sure a beauty. I like the wood handled Camillus as well. I have my eye out for one.
 
Those are some nice TL-29s and I have a couple of them made by Camillus from my Navy days. Here's one of them.

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Some time ago, I was talking to a friend's son who is currently in the U.S. Navy (Electronics Technician) and we got to talking about hand tools currently used by the Navy these days. I asked about the old TL-29 and if he used them. He said they still had them but didn't know who made them. A bit of time went by and a FEDEX truck dropped off the following knife. He'd sent it to me (unsolicited I might add). It is a Klein Electrician's Knife (1550-2) model (made by Utica). There is nothing to indicate TL-29 on the wrapper it came in but as you can see it follows the old TL-29 pattern closely. I think the covers are Delrin or some other composite/plastc. It is a solid knife and made in the U.S.A.. What more could you want?

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