Nice one, Jan!

Think I’ve finally sorted out the Special Run Queen Woodsman Lockback release.  First, as previously stated the blades are 1095, NOT D2.  There are also a few Tortoise Shell Acrylics thrown in with the Cracked Ice.  And, the Worm Groove Bone has a thumb stud.  Sorry for the confusion, but I just posted the info that was originally passed onto me.

That being said, the Woodsman Lockback is a really nice pattern.  Visibly, it’s very similar in appearance to the GEC 73 Linerlock.

couple of sweet queens jan!  thanks for sharing.

Reed Cutlery exclusive

*QUEEN 1978 WINTER BOTTOM BONE FOLDING HUNTER KNIFE USA, tang stamped "Q 78", 2-bld 5-1/4" closed, nickel silver bolsters/brass liners/pins, w/lanyard hole.

Nice pics... Looking forward to more!

Queen #46 fish knife.  One of 70 made for Chattahoochee Cutlery Club in 2005.

From David Clark, Queen historian:
The handles are bone - Winterbottom bone from the Winterbottom Bone factory of Egg Harbor, NJ. The bone was from c1958 and had been in storage but was found and used on several pattern in the 2005 time frame.

So, I wasn't able to make it to Blade 2015 but I have some friends there doing some shopping for me. I asked them to check on some Queen knives and my buddy Pete said Queen wasn't even there this year. Are they in some sort of trouble? (some vendors had some Queen knives, but not what I was looking for).

That's surprising they weren't at the Blade show.  But I know the Queen show coming up this August is all scheduled and ready to go.  I haven't heard of anything to say Queen isn't doing well.

Excited!!! Have a bid on a Queen Cutlery Knife.... Hopefully It'll be mine by the end of the week!

Queen was definitely at Blade! Check out our website and there are some pictures and special Ruple pictures there too!

LOL Gary, they were there!  I hung out at the booth a lot.  They were even giving away free bags, I am sorry they didn't get by there for you

A friend did a bit of a review I thought you might enjoy

Work Horse Barlow, Fallkniven U2 & Weekly Review 6.12.15

WINTERBOTTOM BONE Knife Handles

NEW~ Historical Documents Article ~NEW

Very interesting article to me because I have a Queen fish knife with genuine Winterbottom bone from the Egg Harbor factory.

http://iknifecollector.com/photo/queen-cutlery-company-fish-knife-1

Good Article, thanks Jan for posting it.  And thanks Dave for writing it.

Jan - Great article on the history of Winterbottom Bone handles (still my favorite bone jigging pattern). Thanks very much for the interesting info.

BG-42 is a former super steel manufactured by Latrobe, originally designed as a Ball Bearing steel using VIM/VAR technology. What made BG-42 unique to 154CM was the addition of Vanadium, increasing the wear resistance and edge retention

WONDER WHY I AM IMPARTING THAT LITTLE BIT OF STEEL INFO???

BG-42. A stainless steel with 1.15% Carbon, .50 Magnesium, .30 Silicon, 14.5 Chromium, 4.0 Molydium, and 1.5 Vanadium. It is considered a a forerunner to S30V. It is considered hard to work with but has excellent edge retention however it is somewhat brittle.. HRC 61-63. It is better than 440C but not as good as S30V

Tobias I actually like it more than S30V.  The ones I have with it are far from brittle, it seems easier to sharpen to me and needs touch up less often

A question for Rick Hooper please: I have never heard this baseball story before. Do you know of its origin? I am attaching a picture of the S&M baseball team that played against local townships and villages but non of these players were among the five that started Queen City Cutlery.

It was a story I had read many years ago. I checked Jim Sargent's and Bruce Voyles guides , but it may have been a Levine story in an old knife world article. I remember , it was the five to nine employees justification , for leaving S&M , while moonlighting the production of Queen City blades on S&M machinery. Some articles say the men were fired and some say they left voluntarily, because of the lunch time ballgame incident. They has planned to go on their own anyway! Is their anyone else , who read this story? 

Also , the baseball incident was in the 1918 or the early 1920"s, so probably had new players by then!

David, I checked on the baseball incident. Turns out,  it was 14 employees of the New York Knife company, who left after lunch time, baseball games, due to pressure from the NYK Company management. These employees went on to form the Walden Knife Co-operative Company. I stand corrected.

Rick still very cool information!

That bone handled one looks really nice !

Wow, those cotton samples are awesome, the cattle horn is A1!  Jan, I read that info in the 1980-90's,and sometime between now and then, "someone" moved the Walden Knife Co-operative file over to Schatt and Morgan file. LOL, old age strikes again!

http://www.queencutlery.com/

So how many folks here will be going to the Queen show in 1 month?  I'll be there!

Oh how I wish I was!

I dearly wish I could go too!

Picked up this carving knife recently (I smoke a pipe and sometimes try to carve one... maybe this will help! ;-) ).

By the tang stamp, it's fairly recent but I'm not sure how to date the newer stamps.

-ds

woohooo!  I get a little shakey everytime I think about it.  This is my favorite knife show of the year!

Dave,

Those carvers, if memory serves me right, are only made for one company.  I am not sure that they have ever had a different tang than that but we will see if we can get Queen to take a look at it for us

Great looking knives. Queen keeps impressing me with their new ones.

I had a great time at the Titusville Queen knife show this past weekend.  Lots of familiar faces, and a nice crowd turnout.  Ken even gave my daughter a free knife for attending the show, he's a true class act.  Thanks again to everyone that put on the show, and to the employees/management of Queen Cutlery.

I have been AWOL for a while working on the Queen  Catalog project, which was unveiled at the Queen Show last weekend.  With catalogs digitized and loaded on the Queen historical document website, you can look at original catalog pages going back to 1947 - first catalog known..  The database now has over 7,250 knives entered and gives you a lot of information by model # or Series.  It makes no attempt to enumerate SFO knives, but it give the best detail available on regularly offered knives.  For example history of both amber and pearl handled knives shows huge production over the years - Queen could easily be called the pearl knife company!   Please check out the hisotridcal documents page and comment back to us - always looking to make this amore useful resource.

Thanks,

Dan

I had a little free time today and some of us in the chat were talking about how companies keep up their web sites.  I am so impressed with the Queen Historical Guys!!  

Did you know you can go to the historical page and click on a report of whatever series you can think of...THEN you can click back and go see what was offered in the catalog!

I checked out the rawhide series

Congrats, Carl!

I've been waiting for this Schatt & Morgan 033043-1/2 Jumbo Carpenter's Whittler ever since they announced the limited run early this year.  She's a BEAST !! Awesome slab stag handles, beautiful heavy duty blades an sweet etches on 2 of the blades. Shout our to Greg at TSA Knives for procuring this "pick of the litter" for me (thanks to my advance order).

Jon,

It is indeed a heavy duty knife and they made sure the stag on this one matches the stoutness of the frame!  Congrats and I am glad it made it to a good home

Congrats, Jon! That's a real sweet lookin' whittler you got there! Enjoy!

I think you could whittle totem poles with that heavy duty whittler, Jon.  A beautiful knife.

I looked at one of those at the Wilmington, OH show.  Very nice looking knife!

Thanks to all who have taken the time to comment on my new S & M whittler - I'm really stoked about this knife, probably due somewhat to the fact that I had been anticipating its arrival for so many months ! (In addition to the superb quality of the knife). Best to all