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Old 10-19-2014, 01:25 PM
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Earliest Delrin handled Randall

Eureka!!

This is a vintage 3-7 very recent acquisition which I am quite pleased with. The knife and sheath probably date to 1959-60. It fits nicely with my 1-8 and 2-8 set, and what's more, it is possbily the first Delrin handled Randall ever produced. Of course that depends on the general dating of Model 3s based on the usual criteria, and the history and dating of the use of Delrin by Randall.















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Notice how this beauty matches the set I was fortunate enough to acquire from Tom Dehart.



This site only allows 10 photos per post. Since I have lots of photos, in the next three posts, I'll address the following:

(1) Use photos examples to bracket dating of Model 3 knives as a way of placing this knife chronologically.

(2) post a photo sequence of Delrin handle knives through time.

(3) Finally we'll summarize the published history of Delrin as a material and come to some the conclusions ... which will be that this is the earliest possible use of Delrin on a Randall knife (or possibly any knife for that matter), or it is a knife that was rehandled

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