Your newest addition:traditionals of course!

Hickory n steel said:
I believe it is, but of you're worried about outgassing it's easy to take off since it's just a plastic film or shell.


You can pry it off with a pin...ect.
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Thanks. Since it's still in good shape I'll leave it alone but keep it isolated.
 
The mailman was especially nice to me today. I got my Bear and Sons barlow, and my Case tiny trapper, with persimmon bone scales.
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Picked up a Lion Steel Best Man one bladed folder at Blade. I handled both the one and two bladed versions and preferred the thinner one-blade version. The two blade version is a bit chunky from my point of view.
 
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Went to a new indoor flea market, slim pick'n on knives though. Did pick up a Imperial Frontier there though, still with factory edges. Then stopped by a army surplus place on the way home, and in a case full of new high zoot tactical fixed and folders was a box with mostly Pakistani and the bad Chinese stuff. But one thing in that box grabbed my eye immediately, a big brown delrin hawkbill. Opened it to reveal a completely unused Queen. If you look close you can see polishing compound in the lanyard hole. Some tiny pepper spots and a thumb print on the pile side leads me to believe its carbon steel.
 
Jer, the symbol to the left of the anvil is a date code, but I have yet to find the key for deciphering it. The 49er series ran from 1973 to 1979, but not all the four different patterns were made the whole time. I believe the 498 patterns you show were the most common, and the only pattern to run the whole seven years consecutively.
 
black mamba said:
Jer, the symbol to the left of the anvil is a date code, but I have yet to find the key for deciphering it. The 49er series ran from 1973 to 1979, but not all the four different patterns were made the whole time. I believe the 498 patterns you show were the most common, and the only pattern to run the whole seven years consecutively.
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These are the only two 49ers I've seen in real life, which supports their being the most -made. I think it's Old Codger who has an old post about the 49ers. It looks like the date mark for 1973 was a flaming baseball, or perhaps a stylized forge fire-bowl. But he doesn't know the rest of them either. We know they did at least two years with a date stamp.
smudge58 said:
An #85, factory second.View attachment 1141866 View attachment 1141867
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THe flaw in that knife must be pretty subtle- looks good to me.
 
The knives from my spring fling of knife-buying arrived at the end of last week. This is the only one I've photographed so far, mainly because it's so big (4 5/8" closed instead of 3 5/8" for a normal canoe, 0.65 lbs instead of 0.2 lbs), bad (spear/sheepsfoot/spey instead of spear/pen on normal canoe), and blingy (black lip pearl, filework on springs and blade spines, mirror polished everywhere) that I can't help but grin at its excess each time I see it. Rough Rider gunboat:
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- GT
 
Misplaced Hillbilly said:
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Went to a new indoor flea market, slim pick'n on knives though. Did pick up a Imperial Frontier there though, still with factory edges. Then stopped by a army surplus place on the way home, and in a case full of new high zoot tactical fixed and folders was a box with mostly Pakistani and the bad Chinese stuff. But one thing in that box grabbed my eye immediately, a big brown delrin hawkbill. Opened it to reveal a completely unused Queen. If you look close you can see polishing compound in the lanyard hole. Some tiny pepper spots and a thumb print on the pile side leads me to believe its carbon steel.
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You know, I think that old Queen Hawk might just about be pinch-able;):D

Excellent finds there :thumbsup::cool:
 
This little beauty showed up today. It started life as a Radio Jack, then had the cap lifter deleted (sacrilege to some of you, I'm sure) , and now it's my perfect #15. I always wanted a single blade #15 with end caps and a shield. I'd like to thank @jsdistin for thinking of me and giving me a killer deal on it. :cool: :thumbsup:
 
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