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- Tue Mar 02, 2021 12:19 pm
- Forum: General discussion on blades
- Topic: Vintage Swedish Emil Olssen pocketknife
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2787
Re: Vintage Swedish Emil Olssen pocketknife
A second Emil Olssen knife, now with advertizing for the still existing Swedish Elof Hansson company: https://i.postimg.cc/Cn0Swv9Q/GEDC3661.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/TLgTM8Nb/GEDC3662.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/wtS9Gx2H/GEDC3663.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/zHk5vCrX/GEDC3664.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/hh8K2...
- Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:09 pm
- Forum: General discussion on blades
- Topic: Vintage Swedish Emil Olssen pocketknife
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2787
Vintage Swedish Emil Olssen pocketknife
Fredrick Emil Olsson founded his firm in 1896 in Eskilstuna, Sweden (the cutlery capital of Scandinavia). His was one of over 100 cutlery companies in Eskilstuna at the turn of the century. The firm produced hundreds of thousands of knives until it closed it's doors in 1967. One of it's specialties ...
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:48 pm
- Forum: General discussion on blades
- Topic: 2 Swedish Air Force survival knives
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14350
2 Swedish Air Force survival knives
Recently acquired these two fixed blades made by Swedish manufacturer Pontus Holmberg. According to this website the model was once used as a survival knife for the Swedish Air Force: http://www.gotavapen.se/gota/artiklar/knivar/aforce/1survival.htm https://i.postimg.cc/KKKGKHn7/Pontus-Holmberg-Wade...
- Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:35 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Old Abercrombie and Fitch catalogs in PDF
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2823
Old Abercrombie and Fitch catalogs in PDF
The links below lead to several downloadable PDF's of old Abercrombie and Fitch catalogs on the website of Pennsylvania's Electronic library. A&F 1909 catalog: http://digitalcollections.powerlibrary.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/pcalo-amc/id/11835/rec/4 A&F 1913 catalog: http://digitalcollection...
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 9:07 am
- Forum: General discussion on blades
- Topic: What's This For ... Came With Whetstone
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2118
Re: What's This For ... Came With Whetstone
That's a nagura stone, which is mainly used for cleaning/removing embedded metal swarf from the surface of your whetstone.
I suppose it could also be used for a bit of flattening as well, but a coarse diamond plate works a lot better and faster for that.
I suppose it could also be used for a bit of flattening as well, but a coarse diamond plate works a lot better and faster for that.
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:21 am
- Forum: General discussion on blades
- Topic: Flockton, Tompkin & Co 2-blade small slipjoint
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1482
Flockton, Tompkin & Co 2-blade small slipjoint
Flockton, Tompkin & Co 2-blade small knife with MOP scales. Made in Sheffield and complete with original leather pocket pouch. The knife was bought new around 1920 in Amsterdam, and it's still in very good condition. https://i.postimg.cc/xqj43J1R/GEDC3565.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/dZ0NsXxX/GEDC3566.j...
- Sat Nov 28, 2020 10:13 am
- Forum: General discussion on blades
- Topic: Vintage Kronenkrebs Fahrtenmesser / Scout knife
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4545
Re: Vintage Kronenkrebs Fahrtenmesser / Scout knife
The knife has already proven to be a very effective short chopper during 2019 and 2020, with it's heavy convex blade in low alloy carbon steel combined with a stick tang covered in shock dampening rubber. Still working on thinning the convex blade shape a hair more every now and then, slowly approac...
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 5:40 pm
- Forum: General discussion on blades
- Topic: Early Western Bowie
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7695
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:40 am
- Forum: General discussion on blades
- Topic: Early Western Bowie
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7695
Re: Early Western Bowie
A little belated follow-up story: Upon closer inspection it turned out that this second Bowie had a number scratched in the brass guard, very small and only readable through a magnifying glass. That number was a social security number or SSN, which i managed to trace back to the man who put it there...
- Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:19 am
- Forum: General discussion on blades
- Topic: How often do you oil?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2409
Re: How often do you oil?
For the best and longest lasting opening & closing action of (semi-) automatic knives as well as all standard folding knives i use either Nano-Oil 5 weight or 10 weight (depends on the tolerances), sparingly and not very often (think months or even years) For the action of my Moser 1400 electric hai...
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:36 pm
- Forum: General discussion on blades
- Topic: J.A.Henckels single blade lockback folder
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2285
Re: J.A.Henckels single blade lockback folder
Apparently this knife once belonged to a German WW1 soldier, but it's of course like Bernard Levine always says: "buy the knife, not the story". This is how it currently looks btw. The pins holding the knife together were worn to a point that the opened knife resembled a baby's rattler, so i'm in th...
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 7:28 am
- Forum: General discussion on blades
- Topic: Sharpening on wet & dry SiC paper
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4700
- Sun Oct 04, 2020 10:50 am
- Forum: General discussion on blades
- Topic: Sharpening on wet & dry SiC paper
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4700
Re: Sharpening on wet & dry SiC paper
Just finished hand regrinding this older ScrapYard Wardog in INFI steel using wet & dry SiC paper, first on on glass then on rubber with WD40 oil as a lubricant. The old convex edge measured ~40 degrees inclusive at the heel widening to ~50 degrees inclusive at the belly, while the new convex edge m...
- Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:13 am
- Forum: Professional kitchen knives
- Topic: Thai Kiwi knife & Zanussi cutting board
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14268
Re: Thai Kiwi knife & Zanussi cutting board
The two main reasons why i'm using this polyethylene cutting board is that 1) the material has proven to be much more edge friendly than my beechwood cutting board, and 2) especially for cutting lots of chicken & fish this material is also much safer than wood, and easier to clean thoroughly. Even t...
- Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:53 pm
- Forum: Buy & Sell
- Topic: Vintage Rigid R19 Razorback fixed blade with custom sheath
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1913
Vintage Rigid R19 Razorback fixed blade with custom sheath
Vintage Rigid R19 Razorback fixed blade from the '70's, complete with high quality custom leather belt sheath made by a German sheath maker. From a display collection and unused / like new. https://i.postimg.cc/HrbkyfS0/GEDC2537.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/QVVNbB4d/GEDC2538.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/MnJ...