Is that West Indian Rosewood? Very pretty -- did you put on the new handles?
I have a 3246 with very dramatic red/brown stag handles. I was all excited because I figured Case must have made a mistake by putting on a blade stamped with a 3 instead of a 5. In my excitement, ...and ignorance, I was not picking up on the facts that Case had never done a 46 "Spike" pattern with any kind of stag scales. And, there was no shield. And, the stag handles were a lot thicker than usual factory-installs are -- even for deep-grooved prime staghorn.
It was Steve Pfeiffer who, after a two second glance, said that, of course, my knife been re-handled. The original yellow celluloid scales had disintegrated -- as so many of them have. The yellow "composition" 3246's did not have shields so there was not even a question for the rehandler about whether or not to re-use a shield.
It was all so obvious to someone with experience. To Jim the Newbie, I wanted there to have been a big slip up in the factory resulting in a completely unique knife that fortune had dropped into my collection. LOL
Thanks for the "add". So, is Paris a good place to be a knife collector? I know that there are a bunch of unique-to-France "farmer"/agricultural patterns.
I see where you like your knives to have a punch. Me too -- though, being a rigger collector the knife in my pocket usually has a marlin spike ...which doubles nicely as a punch! ;-)
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In MemoriamRobert Burris said…
I have a 3246 with very dramatic red/brown stag handles. I was all excited because I figured Case must have made a mistake by putting on a blade stamped with a 3 instead of a 5. In my excitement, ...and ignorance, I was not picking up on the facts that Case had never done a 46 "Spike" pattern with any kind of stag scales. And, there was no shield. And, the stag handles were a lot thicker than usual factory-installs are -- even for deep-grooved prime staghorn.
It was Steve Pfeiffer who, after a two second glance, said that, of course, my knife been re-handled. The original yellow celluloid scales had disintegrated -- as so many of them have. The yellow "composition" 3246's did not have shields so there was not even a question for the rehandler about whether or not to re-use a shield.
It was all so obvious to someone with experience. To Jim the Newbie, I wanted there to have been a big slip up in the factory resulting in a completely unique knife that fortune had dropped into my collection. LOL
Hey J-F:
Thanks for the "add". So, is Paris a good place to be a knife collector? I know that there are a bunch of unique-to-France "farmer"/agricultural patterns.
I see where you like your knives to have a punch. Me too -- though, being a rigger collector the knife in my pocket usually has a marlin spike ...which doubles nicely as a punch! ;-)
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