Westinghouse Micarta, Ivorite, other vintage phenolics, etc.

[Ebbtide]

White paper micarta from the Dozier shop circa 2002.
Photo taken last year or so...

 

[chumaman]

small update

guys what do you think

 

[GigOne]

One (of a couple) knives with Rag Micarta. The history behind it is amazing.

This is a Kit Carson subhilt. Duh. lol Just that you don't see these (Carson subhilts) very often.

Kit told me this was subhilt was a "one-off, special order." Kit also told me he made very few knives with Rag Micarta. One, the old stuff was near impossible to find. Two, it was a PITA to work. He said this particular Rag Micarta came out of a science lab in a high school.



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[Hengelo_77]

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[mnavarro]

I made a few out of some butterscotch vintage I do not know for certain if its Westinghouse but it is very nice.

 

[chumaman]

the next ball but a little bigger .... 24cm (9,5 inch) I am lucky guy

 

[Hengelo_77]

Big ball better! Yeah

 

[chumaman]

Not Rag but old butterscotch phenolic

 

[Toni Oostendorp]

I have a few blocks of old industrial micarta. Smells terrible wenn worked on, but it is nice.

 

[Don Hanson III]

Don't know if I posted any of these here, my old photobucket images are gone. This is Oldass micarta from John Lloyd.

 

[Don Hanson III]

And some Rag from Javan,

 

[Ebbtide]

What was the original use for the rag micarta ball?

 

[chumaman]

What was the original use for the rag micarta ball?

I really did try to explore but without success

 

[Ebbtide]

Thanks for trying and responding

 

[betzner]

Westinghouse micarta, from Nathan about 2 1/2 yrs ago

 

[Memcdowe]

Scored a nice 6” rag micarta ball....but don’t have the tools or expertise to process!

 

[Hengelo_77]

nice ball!

 

[TacoTime]

Came across a nice surplus of vintage Micarta. Will post pics up soon.

I will say this. 3 sheets of this stuff was HEAVY.

 

[javand]

This thread refuses to die lol.

I couldn't even begin to post photos of all the stuff I've managed to find since I started it back in the day, and got obsessed with this old material. It's seemingly a never ending quest.

Here's a customer photo of one I took to Blade this year (the knife on the right obviously), in ultra-rare, black rag micarta. Antique Rust Blued Vintage (Hanson's) W2 blade and spring, with anodized Ti liners, shadow bushing, and domed pins, pattern is Evan Niccolaides' Longhorn Jack (thanks bro!): streaks are just oil on the blade.

 

[Don Hanson III]

Great looking knife, Javan! Oldass Rag with Oldass W2, what's not to like?