I wasn't able to set up a dealer table at the show this year, but I did manage to make it there and bring my grandfather along for the day. We had a great time. The new venue was packed, and there was a lot of awesome knives there to see and buy.  I managed to grab the trio of newest Tuna Valley's!

GOODNESS CARL THOSE SURE ARE SWEET!

A couple weeks ago I stopped into Queen Cutlery ask about a particular knife I had and while there met one of the owners from Virginia. We immediately became friends and he took me into the shop and showed me all the processes of making the knives. As I was about to leave he handed me a blank, but stamped on both sides with their logo and model No. a "Moose Skinner". He said when he came back up to Titusville he wanted to see what I had done with the blank. The pictures are of my finished Moose Skinner using acorns and leaves with a wolf in the middle. The sheath was a challenge due to the shape of the blade but I am happy with the finished product. Any comments are welcome and will accept email as well at  pithole@zoominternet.net  Have a great day.

Very cool, I like  it!

Don,

First let me say, I am glad but not surprised you were treated so well.  The good folks at Queen are true knife folks and always willing to help.

I do like what you have done with the sheath very much!

????? .. What's up @ Queen Cutlery .. ?????

RIP

Queen Cutlery made folding woodcarving knives for my business.  I need to find a new source so if anyone or any company is interested in providing knives, please contact me ASAP.

Leo,

There has been some chatter on another forum, about a return.  I do not know the people involved nor do I know how the info was obtained other than by some folks.  Ken has let me know that as soon as he knows how this will play out he will let me know.  I have shared this link with him but understand until he can  say something we just wait :(  and pray for all involved

After several shows this Spring, and the sad articles in Knife Magazine in both March and April issues. Several venders were reporting direct conversations With Ken Daniels that the company was forced to pursue chapter 7 bankruptcy - I think meaning disposal of resources. Not coming back.  A very sad time for collectors and for the Daniels family, especially.  

They put a lot time. money, and heartache into the past six years.  I have no guidance for how to run a knife business.  I just want to say, they made a lot of very nice knives in those years.  I appreciate their efforts.

Very sad...

What a shame, such sad news.

Dan,

Like you I appreciate the efforts the Daniels family made to retain the Queen legacy and keep it going.  I also have heard that the company was forced to pursue chapter 7 bankruptcy.  My heart breaks for all the effort time and money.  It was Ken's dream and this has to be very difficult 

I wonder if there is any chance that the Queen/S&M names can be owned, and knives still made by an American company. Even though they wouldn't be made from the same old factory, I hope that the brand is somehow able to continue.

I absolutely love Queen//Schatt & Morgan knives. I know I have more of these than all other makers combined. I hope they return!!

Don,

It seems to me that even if there is a chapter 7, we will someone buy Queen.  I just hope it is not Taylor Brand.  Although I have nothing against them, I feel Queen has had a special place in the knife world and would love to see it continue in it's factory

Someone, thats would be a concern as well. I would rather see the Daniels family make a smaller line, be even more select only producing their most popular lines and maybe take a stab (pun intended) at a line lesss costly and higher producing for everyday use.

Can anyone help with this ??  http://iknifecollector.com/forum/topics/seeking-info

I have checked out the historical page but the 1989 catalog is not there

Did anyone else read the article in Knife Magazine?

Yes, and I talked to Ryan Daniels at the Pigeon Forge Show last month. He had a proto with him. Best wishes this time around.

Among the news I try to bring to all of you on anything knife related, I sometimes have to bring news I don't like.  But here it is

 Public Auction*Former Queen Cutlery

I am sorry to see that!

Thanks for the information  Jan.  Sad news. A lot of history.

Very sad indeed.

Very sad to see this.

Shame they are just breaking it up.  Creditors will get pennies on the dollar and any chance for new ownership or reorganization is gone.

Well I hope they did whatever was needed to come out of this whole.  Wish I could have been at the auction but then again maybe not

I have a Queen, Schatt & Morgan heritage knife, 1 of 20 that was recently given to me because the shield was missing, Could anyone steer me in the right direction to possibly acquiring a shield for this, it is the larger on about 1 5/16" long?

Thank you Ashley, I'm new to the site and trying to upload via my phone, I think it posted it, if not i will try from a computer tomorrow.

I just bought this 2017 Schatt & Morgan Grand Daddy Barlow single clip blade Premium grade curly spalted Maplewood "factory sample" 1 of 1 knife !!!!

Here is my A.M.K.C.A.  1995 Schatt & Morgan  swing guard lock-back Sambar Stag with "black bear" shield knife   #37 of 50  !

Sweet

I came across and old, abused and unwanted knife the other day.  After

a little cleaning what i had bought was a Queen City large Toothpick with

Winterbottom bone slabs.  It seems that in its other life the tip of the blade

was broken off and one of the liners is bent. I worked on the tip and gave it

a little curve but did not want to do to much to the blade.  Enclosed are a few

pictures.

I came across a knife the other day at an indoor flea market, it was a Queen

electricians knife.  The tip of the blade had been broken of when someone used

it for a screwdriver and it had a half moon broken off in the curve of the blade

where someone used it for something it wasn't meant to be used for. 

But as it was only $3 I had to bring it home.  I didn't take before a before picture

but I reshaped the tip of the blade so that it could still be used.

Rome,

I love that you rescued this knife.  You pay a little, spend some time making it all yours and it forever becomes a user you enjoy.  Glad the knife didn't end up thrown out and you did a great job on the blade!

Kenneth,

That one of one is a beauty but you had me with the swing guard.  A good swing guard is just a beautiful pattern to me and that one is a stunner!

Schatt & Morgan  Humpback Whittler lock-back  MADE IN NEW YORK 

Sorry it took so long for me to get back to you Andy but I do not have a shield for that knife. It’s been crazy the last month!

A favorite of mine.

I went to a gun show today and there was a man selling his collection.

I ended up buying 2 black bone Winchesters, 1 older Queen, 1 large Eye Brand

trapper, 2 NKCA stag handled knives one of which was a Klass Kissing Crane.

Seeing as this is the queen group I will only post a picture of the Queen.  Oh the

best part was I didn't pay more than $30 for any 1 knife.

Well went back to the gun show today and picked up 5 more knives.

1 was a 4 blade S&M Sow Belly

1 was a Buck 110 stag handled custom shop with sv30 blade.

1 was a Case stag Sharktooth

1 was a Gold Coast Chapter club 3 blade stockman Frank Buster Fighting Rooster

1 was a gold Coast Chapter club stag trapper Frank Buster Fighting Rooster

And how this is the Queen group here is the S&M

I will post the rest on the box of knives group

When I posted the first group i did not know that the NKCA 1981 was a Queen knife.

It is not marked with the manufacturer and I had to look it up.

Also I new but forgot that the black bone Winchesters were made by Queen under

contract.