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Comment by Bill Fletcher on August 14, 2013 at 17:24

Some time back, I learned on a WR Case & Sons factory tour that Zebu cattle shin bone is often  used since it is denser than found on other breeds.  

Comment by Jack Haskins, Jr. on August 14, 2013 at 15:29

Have you heard of dyslexia?  My hands have it.  I don't know how often when typeing I hit the key with the correct finger on the wrong hand.  lol   I do that A LOT for some reason.  Thanks for the correction though.  AND, I like your understanding of the acronymn. :)  Maybe that's what my fingers were thinking also. :)

Comment by Howard P Reynolds on August 14, 2013 at 14:51

Almost missed this, Jack.  PITA  is bread.  PETA is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or as I like to think of it: People Eating Tasty Animals.

Comment by Howard P Reynolds on August 14, 2013 at 14:41

Hahahaha.  You know, Jack it might be a question of organization.  Maybe whoever processes meat here didn't think of selling the leg bones to knife companies, or maybe Jello gets the gelatin, and fertilizer companies, etc. get the bone meal (ground bone).  Or, maybe Duncan Renaldo (Cisco Kid) or Ricardo Montalban, got South American interests to sell bone to U.S. knife manufacturers.

Comment by Jack Haskins, Jr. on August 14, 2013 at 14:19

Thanks Howard.  Cow bone from South America???  We don't have enough cows in the USA??????  Hope our cows don't find out.  They may go on strike. lol  Maybe PITA objected to using American cow bone? :)

Comment by Howard P Reynolds on August 14, 2013 at 14:07

Jack,

I am probably not the best one to answer your questions, but here goes:  In the modern era, Queen was owned by Servotronics (who also owns/owned Ontario Knives, Franklinville, NY).  Don't know if there is a change in quality under the new ownership (Daniels, 2012), but I have some Queen knives produced under Servotronics ownership which have good craftsmanship.

Stag is antler. Jigged or smooth bone is cow bone, and oddly, I think most of the cow bone used in making knife scales in the U.S. is imported from South America - could be wrong about this.

Comment by Jack Haskins, Jr. on August 14, 2013 at 13:43

I have a Queen catalog and the knives in it look to be the same as on their site.  I also see a torched stag knife in AG Russell's catalog.  Are the ones in the catalog the only ones being produced now?  Is any other Queen knife I may see discontinued?  Does it have anything to do with the new ownership?  Everyone seems to be excited about the new ownership hoping for better (?) knives.  If the only ones being manufactured now are in the current catalog, is the quality of the others lacking?  The one in the picture I'm looking at is beautiful but it's just a picture.  To show further ignorance, is "torched stag" bone or antler?  I'm thinking and hoping antler.  Bone is usually identifiedd as smooth or jigged it seems.

Thanks,

Jack

Comment by Alexander Noot on August 14, 2013 at 6:51

Nice Gerald. I envy you for that gorgeous pearl!

Comment by Jess Cobb on August 13, 2013 at 19:57

Gerald, that MOP is beautiful. I am envious...I want one

Comment by Bill Fletcher on August 13, 2013 at 7:28

Beautiful S&M gunstock Gerald, nice!

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