Queen Cutlery

No.51 not very common pattern.

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Will Power said:
Pity about that one as it's a beautiful pattern. I agree with you about Queen offering all sorts of knives and the 'innovation' of D2 steel on pocket-knives, not generally available from competitors' I feel that the D2 range was one of the finest you could get and easily rivals GEC's current stuff- especially as it's all mono carbon, no stainless or D2 really...It's true that D2 knives often appeared blunt- I suspect Queen's aged machinery was not up to edging the stuff?? But I've only ever had a simple DMT aligner diamond set and it edges these Queens really well and with little effort.

Thanks, Will
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I suspect the person at Queen who knew how to sharpen a knife died of frustration while trying to teach his replacement, and that was before they went to D2.
 
I had and traded away a #92 CSB D2 fixed blade, a S&M F&W Worm Groove Mountain Man ATS34, a purple bone English jack (can't recall #), a yellow delrin jumbo coke bottle folding hunter (forgotten model again) and memory says none of them came very sharp. The English jack had a burr on the secondary blade that rode the liner digging a groove in the brass, making it gritty opening and closing.

There was a knife shop, which is now gone too, around twenty miles from where I live that had quite a few Queen, Schatt & Morgan and Queen made Robeson knives (along with many other brands). I spent too much money there but I miss being able to go in and ogle all the beautiful knives.
 
I just recently acquired my first two Queen knives. The first was a 23 spear bladed Barlow, old enough to have bone scales. It is very nice but does have a little wobble to both blades, I’m guessing due to the aluminum frame stretching over time.

I liked it so much I grabbed a newer 23 clip blade Barlow of newer construction but still “old” but in great shape. I had planned to give it to my son for his birthday last week but even after flushing and oiling the pull on both blades is very heavy. I don’t mind as I prefer the bear trap snap like my GEC 23s but there’s no way an 8 year old could handle it safely.

I sure wish I’d have been aware of Queen prior to their going under. I would have liked to had the opportunity to buy some back in the good old days.
 
315 said:
Stuart, same here, glad to see you back on the forum. I had feared something had happened and I’m glad that’s not the case!!
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Thanks, Jim. I am slow;y settling in to the lively pace of the Porch. Things did happen - we lost Ron (HalfStop) right after he and I enjoyed a couple more lumches, the pandemic ensued, and my wife of 43 years passed in Summer of 2022 (not of COVID). I got a little distracted. Wheels are back on the track and I hope to post more (apologies for any repeated pictures), though will be gone part of next week for pheasant opener in South Dakota. Gotta find my bird knife.
- Stuart
 
Duckdog said:
Thanks, Jim. I am slow;y settling in to the lively pace of the Porch. Things did happen - we lost Ron (HalfStop) right after he and I enjoyed a couple more lumches, the pandemic ensued, and my wife of 43 years passed in Summer of 2022 (not of COVID). I got a little distracted. Wheels are back on the track and I hope to post more (apologies for any repeated pictures), though will be gone part of next week for pheasant opener in South Dakota. Gotta find my bird knife.
- Stuart
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Stuart, very sorry to hear about your wife. I hope you have a terrific hunt and flush hundreds of birds. If you can’t find your bird knife I may have a spare or three lying around here…
 
Duckdog said:
Thanks, Jim. I am slow;y settling in to the lively pace of the Porch. Things did happen - we lost Ron (HalfStop) right after he and I enjoyed a couple more lumches, the pandemic ensued, and my wife of 43 years passed in Summer of 2022 (not of COVID). I got a little distracted. Wheels are back on the track and I hope to post more (apologies for any repeated pictures), though will be gone part of next week for pheasant opener in South Dakota. Gotta find my bird knife.
- Stuart
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Stuart, so sorry to hear about your wife. Best of luck on your Pheasant hunt 👍
 
@GPO not sure, it's a bit ambiguous ;) the Forum Knife had Michigan tang stamps but it's pretty obvious the origin, the then owner was rather cagey about things. I think Queen kept on making a model or two for KSF but they soon switched to GEC- the rising star and it was around the time Queen started to put out some less than enviable knives under the Daniels hand....
 
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