Good Luck my friend !!!!Great news Augie - fingers crossed.
Mine - well - that’s another story I won’t bother this Thread with lol, but it’s big.
I’m going to take some more photos of some more knives of late.
I bought some nice Henckels the other day which - when they arrive ( which will be some time yet ) I will post them up.
Had the pleasure of dealing with our friend Roland with the Henckels.
A good mechanic , such as you my friend , would just Change Out the knee . I did go on and read your other posts and was glad to see that it may not be as bad as you thought . Glad to hear that . It will not be quite the same in Titusville if you can't make it . Nancy & I sure hope to seewaynorth and you and Donna there in August .
I enjoyed seeing your above knives too my friend .
Harry
I love it DuncanThis knife does not come anywhere near the class of other knives being shown here as of late!
I bought this knife that was in with 4 knife lot, the other 3 were absolute junk- but from the very very poor seller photos I could see some nice old Bone - for the price of the buy now for the lot it was worth the closer look at under $40 NZ, so to you guys and Gals in the States slightly less than $20...
So I opened the packet upon it's arrival, immediately threw the other three away, and picked up this - what I can only describe as a Tank!
I knew when looking at it - it was most probably a Sheffield Knife, the Jigging pattern is from that era of early 20th Century Sheffield- and I kinda like this Jigged Bone- its a Worm Grooved jigging that is really interesting to look at!
I love the intermittent pattern in the still yet flowing worm groove, not the most out there in captive Colour as a Stag or Burnt Stag but in its own way quite intriguing Bone Handle material.
The snap on this knife is outrageous and sports absolutely no Blade play - this Lovely 100 year old Knife commands respect from me because this Knife has been used- but not abused and just look at it- this will do another Century of use!
Another thing I love about these old Knives is the iron pins that have been hammered in by Hand - slowly over the long, long years ebbing out a rust stain through the surrounding Bone.
Lets come back to present time and The thing I really love about Jack Blacks workings with A Wrights is still the use of the fantastic Kicks used by the early Sheffield's - The good Ol' Stovepipe Kick - so lets go back in time again and ...this Knife - this knife obviously has the Stovepipe Kick!
In my office I couldn't quite see if these gorgeous old Iron Rat's Tailed Bolsters were Integral with the Liners - nor could I make out the very very few markings left of a Stamping!
Once I got home out came the Loupe - and I then used a Brass coin to slowly work the Tang build away - and there it was CAMBRIDGE & Co ( over ) ENGLAND in the great old Font they used.... I was so so pleased, the Bolsters weren't Integral- as there is a very slight wee join you can see under magnification.
From 1900 to 1920 Cambridge & Co were in existence and apparently a Military Contractor - I am not saying that this knife came under this - who knows- it could well have been - that's not too important as the Knife isn't the Worlds most collectible but these fantastic Early Sheffield's deserve their recognition.
That's the type of knife that if it could talk it could tell you stories all night The bone, the pins, the bolster, the patina... oh so many stories...
Yup they are both Ulster Knife Co, I will get better pics of the "non-shield" knife and post a couple...Thank you Eisman and Kev
Eisman- there were some great places we saw that would have been fantastic- but we saw them on Sunday and being mostly a very religious area everything like that was closed!
Neat score on the Bone Sea Scout Knife Kev, is the Front one without the Shield an Ulster as well? same pinning etc but the Bone looks like Camillus
That's a sweet little Oates Barlow.An old SEO&S Barlow that I just got that has been wayyyyyyy Overcleaned . Not the way that I like to do it but is a pretty hard to find this Barlow and the price was okay .
Compared to a Regular SEO&S Barlow
Compared to a TC 14 Barlow
Integral Bolsters
It actually has Great Snap at 1/2 Stop , Open , and Close
Harry
I have one that's not as cleaned but alas, more roughly used. Is yours smaller than 3" closed?
Here are the "studio" photos of the Ulster sailor's knife... took a little of the grime off, gave it an edge and a little oil brought the closing snap back on the blade
I much prefer them cleaned like yoursThat's a sweet little Oates Barlow.
With a #14:
r8shell
. I just measured my Regular Sized one at 3 & 3/8 inches and the Smaller One at 2 & 15/16 inches. Just looking at your picture and yours looks to be over 3 inches but less than 3 & 3/8 inches . Do you suppose that is because of the squared off Butt end of the handle ?? I Do Not see any evidence of the word England on either yours or my smaller one yet but it is there on my Regular Sized one .
That's neat that you have a set in two sizes. I could guess that the smaller ones are older, but I'm really just guessing.I much prefer them cleaned like yours
Harry
Here you can see that mine is rather janked up, but I was still very happy to find one in any condition.
