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This Old Knife Here is a little forum dedicated to talking about, but not limited to, vintage and antique knives. Pics and stories of special knives or your favorite patterns are encouraged. No experts here. Just guys chattin about old knives and the legends we hav |
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update on old "Buck Town Made" hawkbill, and Osbourne head knife (pics)
I saw these two old knives in an antique shop awhile back, and didnt have the money on hand to buy them. I went back a few weeks later to see if they were still there, but they weren't. I was saddened that I had missed out on such cool knives.
Well... today is my birthday, and I got a gift from my parents. I opened it, and it was the two old knives! They went in and bought those knives for me the next day, and i was upset all that time that someone else got them. Anyway, these pictures arent so great, my lighting/camera situation is ghetto, but actual pictures are better than the MS Paint drawings I presented before. __________________ ....a nozh scrap any time you say |
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here's a couple more of the Buck hawkbill. I tried to get the stamp as best I could.
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anybody wanna comment?
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Interesting stuff.
The top one by osbourne i am pretty sure is a leather cutting knife. The Buck one: no idea what that one is for though. Ross |
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The head knife is certainly for leather work. The hawkbill could have purpose from laying carpet to horticulture. "Pruning knives" for gardening/nursery work have a shape like that.
Nice birthday present! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! |
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My great great grandfather was a saddler and he handed down knives and cutters almost identical to both of these to my grandfather.
I would say they are BOTH leather working cutters. |
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I saw a knife similar to the osbourne head knife in a book featuring Bill Moran. He was using it to cut leather for making sheaths. Thats how I found out it was for leatherwork. The Buck hawkbill type knife was in a wooden box with it, with some other crude knives made with straight razor blades and file handles. The blade on the Buck is forged and sharpened in a way in which I've never seen in any other hawkbill type knife. The very top of the knife has a very sharp convex edge, and a very small portion of the underside of the edge is sharpened, like a gut hook or something. I'm still trying to find out more info on this little knife. Thanks for your response. every little bit helps. __________________ ....a nozh scrap any time you say |
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Here is one by buck i found on ebay. I have not been able to find another mention of them.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...DME:B:TB6:US:2 __________________ "Many are chosen, but few are Pict" "The doer alone, learneth" NT Neo-Devo |
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nice skiver & the hawksbill could be used for horticulture or leather
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The Buck is an old carpet layers knife but as stated earlier it can also be used for leather. I remember when I was a kid that the carpet layers had knives like the buck. That was a time before the discard after use of today, and no I ain't gonna say how old I am. well I guess I just did.
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