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JBF Champlin Cutlery

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JBF Champlin was a pioneer in the cutlery industry over a hundred years ago and we are trying to keep up the great tradition of his work.

Website: http://www.jbfchamplin.com/
Location: The good old USA
Members: 27
Latest Activity: Sep 4, 2018

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Group is moving

This group will be deactivated on July 4, 2014. As I begin to set us up for transitioning to the new format our provider is offering, we will lessen the amount of groups that we host and those that are not showing activity regrettably will be the ones that need to be deactivated. Thank you for the posting. Not wanting to lose the information in this group it will be transitioned to http://www.iknifecollector.com/group/odds-ends Box Full of Knives
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Old Cattaraugus Rosewood

Started by Michael A Losicco. Last reply by Ken Spielvogel Aug 6, 2013. 7 Replies 2 Likes

As I am seeing the knife with the old Cattaraugus handles posted Donna and I were thinking about how we found them. I had to go get mine and look it over again!!! I just shipped out the knives for…Continue

The JBF story

Started by Jan Carter. Last reply by Ron Cooper Aug 6, 2013. 1 Reply 3 Likes

This was an unscripted freeform chat hosted by Derek Smith And Mike LocissoI had thought about extracting just the info about the knives but the chat was really so much fun...I just left it thiswayWe…Continue

Tags: Cattaragus, JBF, Chat, Champlin

The Electric Story

Started by Jan Carter. Last reply by Jan Carter Jul 12, 2013. 2 Replies 4 Likes

Mike and Derek! I am stealing this from your site I love the stories behind each offering you bring to us as collectors. There is always knife history in everything you all do!…Continue

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Comment by Michael A Losicco on July 16, 2013 at 7:31: Ken, I would say it is an early one because of the match striker pull. I also think that some early knives did not have the pattern numbers on them.

Comment by Ken Spielvogel on July 16, 2013 at 7:24: How excited I was to get this old Cattaraugus Equal End Jack with Ebony Handles in the mail yesterday. It has Cattaraugus Cutlery Co, Little Valley NY on both blades but no number. Anyone know how that happened?? Wonder what date this knife would have? Wish JBF were here to tell me.

Comment by Ken Spielvogel on July 15, 2013 at 7:03

Comment by Derek Smith on July 13, 2013 at 14:23: I forgot to mention that the springs on this Whittler are tapered. They are wider at the pen blade end of the knife.

I think the inlays are genuine tortoise, but I'm not sure.

Comment by Derek Smith on July 13, 2013 at 14:20

Comment by Derek Smith on July 13, 2013 at 14:19: I've been digging into Friedmann & Lauterjung allot the last few weeks. Here's a photo of the only F&L knife that I own. It's in rough shape, but I still think it's a great specimen of their work. This is a whittler with a broken pen blade.

Also, I've made some changes to the Electric Cutlery article I posted on our Champlin web page. Check it out if your a history geek.

Comment by Ken Spielvogel on July 6, 2013 at 12:52: That is an amazing website, I enjoyed it, being a Cattaraugus fan. Keep up the good work, preserving our Cutlery history guys.

Comment by Michael A Losicco on July 5, 2013 at 18:52: Don't worry Jan we will be deciding on the prize soon

Comment by Michael A Losicco on July 5, 2013 at 18:51: Every time I see a knife that has that wood I get shivers!!! Finding that wood in the old factory was like a dream!!