The leather handle.

[jackknife]

The KaBar "Litte Finn" -

AUS-6, 7" OAL, only $25. Not bad.

I think my Buck Woodsman is pretty close in design and purpose, minus the leather handle.

Yes!

Thats trapper Bill's knife. Thats what I saw all over when I was a kid, late 40's- 50's. I had one by Western, and it was a very good, handy little knife. Lost it someplace along the way, or traded it and can't recall.

 

[chili]

As looking those pictures of Case knife´s i wonder which had first this model Case or Iisakki Järvenpää?
Case since 1889 and Järvenpää since 1879 but when manufactured?

You do understand what i mean? Writing english ain´t my best....

http://www.iisakkijarvenpaa.fi/prod02.htm
http://www.wrcase.com/knives/view_all/browseview2.php?Family=%22Leather%20Handle%22&View=1&Item=372

 

[JD Mandrell]

As looking those pictures of Case knife´s i wonder which had first this model Case or Iisakki Järvenpää?
Case since 1889 and Järvenpää since 1879 but when manufactured?

You do understand what i mean? Writing english ain´t my best....

http://www.iisakkijarvenpaa.fi/prod02.htm
http://www.wrcase.com/knives/view_all/browseview2.php?Family="Leather Handle"&View=1&Item=372

Probably no way to ever know 100%, but I could easily see one of those or a similiar knife coming to America with someone immigrating here, then being copied. I don't even think Case was the first American knife maker to make this type of knife.

 

[jackknife]

As looking those pictures of Case knife´s i wonder which had first this model Case or Iisakki Järvenpää?
Case since 1889 and Järvenpää since 1879 but when manufactured?

You do understand what i mean? Writing english ain´t my best....

http://www.iisakkijarvenpaa.fi/prod02.htm
http://www.wrcase.com/knives/view_all/browseview2.php?Family=%22Leather%20Handle%22&View=1&Item=372

First, rest assured I understand you just fine. You English is not that bad, you should hear how some of the young people talk these days!

In the late 1870's to 80's there was a huge immiration of people from the scandinavian coutries. Mostly they emigrated to the northern plains states for the free farmland that was available at that time. Alot of Swedes, Finns, settled in North Dakota, Minnisota, Wisconson. Most came into the U.S. via Ellis Island, New York and some stayed there in New York for a while to work and get up funds for the trip west. I can only imagine that maybe some of them got jobs in a New York knife factory if they had any experiance in that field. An imigrant new to this country will try to find employment in the job he already knows if possable. Like my own family comming from the west coast of Ireland and being fishing boat people, they continued doing just that.

The puuko style of knife is over a thousand years old in design. A few years ago the Smithsonian here in Washington hosted an exibit on loan from the Viking museum in Oslo, and among the many artifacts was a circa 900AD puuko. Exept for the aging it was very similar to a modern birch handle Jarvenpaa puuko. Its easy to see how some of those knives came into this country and maybe had an influence on the New York knife companies like Ka-bar, Case, Western who was part of a New York company before splitting out to Colorado. Just as the Pennsylvania rifle was inspired by the German Jager rifle, I can guess that the little finn was maybe inspired by an imigrant knife.

 

[deltablade]

I have a small Cooper knife, new, and the leather washers are very slightly loose
is there anything I can do to tighten them? the pommel nut has been ground flush so tightening that would be tricky

 

[chili]

Thanks jackknife
Just Järvenpää model ain´t traditional puukko, little more like European knife´s.

 

[Amos Iron Wolf]

Good read as usual, JK. Got me pining away after a trim little Boker I picked up once for twenty-five cents at a yard sale in North Carolina back in the late eighties. It was in a box of loose knives, mostly kitchen types. I got it and three Old Hickories for a buck total. I blued the blade with some cold blue and sharpened it up. The stacked leather handle was already dark and the aluminum pommel and guard had lost any shine, looking a little frosted even. I guess some would call it a bird and trout knife. I made a flimsy leather sheath for it out of some scrap, but eventually it just hung around sheathless. I think I sold it for a few bucks at my own yard sale a handful of years back when I was in a clearing out mode. Sure wish I had it back now. It was plenty of knife.

One of these days I hope to pick up one of the older knife/hatchet sets like the Westerns. But, like most things it will have to be at just the time when all things converge and the planets align. Okay so maybe a little of it coming available at a great price when I actually have that price to spend and am in the mood where that will be just the thing I want to spend it on.

Someone mentioned the Queen Bone Stags in D2. I've been eyeballing those on and off for some time. They look like a lot of good, usable knife for not much money.

Edited to add: I just realized that I have do have a fine little knife that fits the above, but with a hard rubber handle instead. I have an old Cattaraugus with the hard rubber handle that comes from a time when knives were used a lot. It is trim, light, and quickly sharpened up to scary sharp. It cuts on par, maybe a tad better, than my Moras, be it leather, paper, or manila rope. Here's an older scan of it.

The southpaw sheath is interesting. May not be original to the knife, but fits it well and that's what came with it when I got it on ebay.

 

[tarmix101]

"Well then, it's the best one" he said as he handed it back to me.I learned alot from the trading post loafers.

I have little to add other than I will think about the above for some time. It's been said to death JK.... but thanks again for sharing:thumbup:

 

[Blue Sky]

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[deltablade]

here are a few of mine

 

[Wabajack]

Wow...did you see me coming! This is my outdoor rig.

Wonderful reading jackknife, you have a true talent. I have always had a soft spot for leather stacked handles, probably from the little Case "finn" that my dad carried for hunting and fishing, most folks today would think it was way to small, but it sure cleaned a lot of fish & game over the years!

Keep writing!

What hatchet is that?

 

[sunnyd]

Here are a few of mine. This one is an old Remington made after a Marbles Woodcraft design..

Vintage Marbles from top: Wood craft dated 1913(Stag pommel), 5 inch Ideal from WWII (Bakelite pommel), 6 inch Ideal.

A vintage Western brand from the era that jacknife describes.. Nicest hatchet/knife set I have ever owned(thanks jacknife for talking me out of selling it on another thread a while back) The hatchet is extremely light wieght but takes a keen edge and cuts well. This set is a permanent fixture in my little ruck sack these days.

 

[sunnyd]

What hatchet is that?

Wabajack,
That hatchet is an Estwing. They are for more famous for their Hammers but let me tell you that hatchet is one of the finest you will ever own. I have one here in my garage kicking around somewhere that is 35+ years old and the stacked leather handle is just now starting to give way only because I was slack on taking good care of it all these years. One of these days I will replace that handle and sand off the rust and that puppy will be once again prime.

 

[Wabajack]

Wabajack,
That hatchet is an Estwing. They are for more famous for their Hammers but let me tell you that hatchet is one of the finest you will ever own. I have one here in my garage kicking around somewhere that is 35+ years old and the stacked leather handle is just now starting to give way only because I was slack on taking good care of it all these years. One of these days I will replace that handle and sand off the rust and that puppy will be once again prime.

Thanks for the reply, I'll check em out.

 

[NirreBosse]

Simple working mens knifes. Size and grinding is basically the same as the swedish pre-industry-age workingknifes. Ours was mostly Moras or morashaped ones. Nowadays people gather a lot of knifes in different shapes. But the people I know that uses knifes the most use a knife in that cattegory. I also grew up with old men talking calmly to eachother while handling their knifes, using them to point at things, for small eating, carving at a stick etc. Its kind of remembering a great time of childhood for me. I still do it with the same type of knifes. I will not surender to modern ages. This is a lifestyle That is mine and I will pass it on to my two sons, The taste of it anyway.

Such great historys in your tales Jackknife. And inspite of differens in places to grow up and a space in time between our experienses your storys almost everytime talk directly to my hart. Would be nice to sit down with you by a campfire in the mountains by a troutcreek and talk to you about life and rifles occaitionally carving a peace of chease or reindeersossage or dried moose looking at what klife you brought for the trip.

Thanks / Bosse







Thanks

 

[sunnyd]

Simple working mens knifes. Size and grinding is basically the same as the swedish pre-industry-age workingknifes. Ours was mostly Moras or morashaped ones. Nowadays people gather a lot of knifes in different shapes. But the people I know that uses knifes the most use a knife in that cattegory. I also grew up with old men talking calmly to eachother while handling their knifes, using them to point at things, for small eating, carving at a stick etc. Its kind of remembering a great time of childhood for me. I still do it with the same type of knifes. I will not surender to modern ages. This is a lifestyle That is mine and I will pass it on to my two sons, The taste of it anyway.

Such great historys in your tales Jackknife. And inspite of differens in places to grow up and a space in time between our experienses your storys almost everytime talk directly to my hart. Would be nice to sit down with you by a campfire in the mountains by a troutcreek and talk to you about life and rifles occaitionally carving a peace of chease or reindeersossage or dried moose looking at what klife you brought for the trip.. Thanks / Bosse
Thanks

Super response Bosse! When jacknife reads this I am pretty sure he will concur!

 

[Sword and Shield]

Wabajack,
That hatchet is an Estwing. They are for more famous for their Hammers but let me tell you that hatchet is one of the finest you will ever own. I have one here in my garage kicking around somewhere that is 35+ years old and the stacked leather handle is just now starting to give way only because I was slack on taking good care of it all these years. One of these days I will replace that handle and sand off the rust and that puppy will be once again prime.

My #1 has gone through so much that I'm amazed it still works. Chops great, though.

 

[Willow Farm]

Hi all, I really enjoy. I picked up a Queen fixed blade (marked Qsteel) and no other markings. Stacked leather handle with 3 white rings on both ends. o.a.l. is a hair over 8". Blade is mirror like finish and about 4 1/8" long , 5/8" widest with a raised tip. Q sheath fits just right and has the low single snap holder. Shows very little wear. What would it be called? Appreciate any help!

 

[Woodrow F Call]

Great story and great thread.

 

[Kleingra]

Great story. I'm a pretty new knife enthusiast and threads like this keep pulling me more and more towards the traditional side. I can see how collections grow. It seems like every time I'm here I find something new to add to my wish list. Small Case fixed blade just got added.