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Not saying they are the best, or anything. I've just always liked stag handled Solingens - ever since my dad gave me one he'd found on a portage. I was about eight at the time.
Here's a couple of them, along with some other knives The one on the far right is a fur trade knife which appears to have been in our family since the 1840s.:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/pjjgirard/Tools%20and%20Camping%20Gear/knifesheaths.jpg
crashdive123
12-10-2008, 07:40 PM
Nice collection.
Runs With Beer
12-10-2008, 08:41 PM
Yea very nice, Id love to see the one on the right and 4th from right out of the sheath?
crashdive123
12-10-2008, 08:43 PM
Strip knives?
Blood Groove
12-10-2008, 09:44 PM
Wow that knife has been in your family since 1840??? That's amazing! Man I wish that knife could talk, I bet it's got a million stories.
Wow that knife has been in your family since 1840??? That's amazing! Man I wish that knife could talk, I bet it's got a million stories.
Many of our people were involved in the fur trade. My g-g-grandfather had a sloop on the great lakes and delivered trade goods to different fur posts. He then settled among the Menominee in Wisconsin for about ten years, starting about 1835, took a Menominee wife, then homesteaded there after the Menominee went to the rez. I have a news article from a little later period *****ing that he owns all the best land - and that his wife isn't even white.
Of course, I have no idea when he aquired the knife, but it does appear to be a trade knife, though the handle has been replaced with two pieces of antler - instead of the original wood. I'll see about taking some photos. The other old knife ( the longest one) is pretty interesting too.
I also have mt g-grandfather's knife and my grandfather's knife. Unlike me, these guys seem to have been "one knife" men.
If I had one knife - it would be the one my father gave me - third from the right in the photo.
Knife photos:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/pjjgirard/Tools%20and%20Camping%20Gear/IMG_7972.jpg
1: My g-grandfather's knife - made from a file
2: A Norwegian knife
3: Solingen stag
4: Solingen stag my father gave me
5: My grandfather's Remington - free with purchase of a box of shells
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/pjjgirard/Tools%20and%20Camping%20Gear/IMG_7962.jpg
Top: Old trade knife "Sabatier"
Middle: G-g-grandfather's knife
Bottom: Repro trade knife
For anyone who is into collecting knives - the following are my sister-in-law's father's knives:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/pjjgirard/Tools%20and%20Camping%20Gear/IMG_9832.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/pjjgirard/Tools%20and%20Camping%20Gear/IMG_9835.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/pjjgirard/Tools%20and%20Camping%20Gear/IMG_9843.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/pjjgirard/Tools%20and%20Camping%20Gear/IMG_9847.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/pjjgirard/Tools%20and%20Camping%20Gear/IMG_9851.jpg
Runs With Beer
12-11-2008, 10:09 PM
RBB The pic with the 3 old knives, Is Right up my alley. I dont get to see photos like that of old knives like that very often, That is a treat. Thanks.
Blood Groove
12-11-2008, 10:21 PM
RBB that's pretty amazing hearing about your heritage. That sort of stuff always interests me. I wish I knew more about my geneology. All I know is that my great geat grandfather Frank came over from Ireland during the potato famine. Man if I found a knife that they used, I'd be so excited. That's all really interresting though. I'd love to hear more if you know more or are willing to write about it. Oh a side note, that one scandinavian knife looks exactly like a mora knife. How old is it?
chiye tanka
12-12-2008, 12:12 AM
RBB, those are some great looking knives.
RBB that's pretty amazing hearing about your heritage. That sort of stuff always interests me. I wish I knew more about my geneology. All I know is that my great geat grandfather Frank came over from Ireland during the potato famine. Man if I found a knife that they used, I'd be so excited. That's all really interresting though. I'd love to hear more if you know more or are willing to write about it. Oh a side note, that one scandinavian knife looks exactly like a mora knife. How old is it?
It IS a Mora. Just couldn't think of the name. It was one of my dad's knives.
Geneology:
Mother's Family:
- English Puritans - 1629 to Salam - Boston, Hartford (first settlers), NY State, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Wyoming (trading post among Shoshone - 1860s/1870s), Oregon, Alaska - back to Minnesota.
Involved in almost every major US conflict (Pequodt War, King Philip's War (involved in Turner's Falls Massacre - name on the militia rolls), King William's War (scalped by Indians on "ye village commons"), Queen Ann's War (involved in Deerfield Massacre - names in the history books), Grey Beard's War (shot in belly - cured by "earnest prayer"), King George's War, French & Indian War (involved in "Bloody Morning Scout"), Rev War (numerous ancestors), War of 1812 (commanded fort), Civil War (numerous), Sapnish/American War, WWI, Nicaraugua, WWII, Korean War, Viet Nam War, Iraq War) Except the Mexican War and the first Iraq War. Many of these people were involved in the fur trade after about 1750.
Quakers- Pennslyvania with Penn (2nd Migration - first migration went to Deleware). Then moved to NY State
French: To Quebec then Trois Rivier, in Wisconsin/Minnesota about 1804.
Dutch (or German) - very early - lines unclear as whole family except ancestor died of Cholera.
Danish: Very little known. Grandmother left home at age 11 to cook in logging camps.
Father's family: Norwegian - two branches homesteaded about 1850. Another arrived in 1885. One of the early homesteaders left a narrative - very interesting.
Doesn't mean anything, but it is interesting - if you like history.
Blood Groove
12-12-2008, 02:33 PM
WOW!! Rbb that's amazing that you know all those things. It's so cool that you know so much about your ancestors and that they were in all those wars. I'm seriously amazed by all that information. Thanks for posting it a lot.
crashdive123
01-02-2009, 11:34 PM
Sarge - Move to Survival Kits & Survival Products
Nativedude
01-15-2009, 03:16 AM
RBB wrote: Knife photos:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/pjjgirard/Tools%20and%20Camping%20Gear/IMG_7972.jpg
1: My g-grandfather's knife - made from a file
2: A Norwegian knife
3: Solingen stag
4: Solingen stag my father gave me
5: My grandfather's Remington - free with purchase of a box of shells
No. 2 (Norwegien Knife) Is an early Swedish S1 Mora. The same knife I use!
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff58/Nativedude1/jpeg_mora03_jpg.jpg
Very impressive collection RBB.It's really great that you know the history of each knife and about your ancestors.
No. 2 (Norwegien Knife) Is an early Swedish S1 Mora. The same knife I use!
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff58/Nativedude1/jpeg_mora03_jpg.jpg
Very impressive collection RBB.It's really great that you know the history of each knife and about your ancestors.
Probably the most interesting ancestors (to me) are the Menominie and Ojibwe. Only one relative on the rez is at all traditional. He builds birchbark canoes. Funny thing is, he learned how to build them from an Iowegian farmer.
Lately it's been these two.
Both Soligen blades. Big knife use to have a nicer handle but it broke, this one does not look at pretty but it is alot more comfy.
The small one has a handle made out of the first bow killed deer I took.
Both are super razor sharp.
I'm not the best sheath maker, but they work.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/FrankV/MVC-020S.jpg
Lately it's been these two.
Both Soligen blades. Big knife use to have a nicer handle but it broke, this one does not look at pretty but it is alot more comfy.
The small one has a handle made out of the first bow killed deer I took.
Both are super razor sharp.
I'm not the best sheath maker, but they work.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/FrankV/MVC-020S.jpg
Now THAT is a stag handled Solingen!
Blood Groove
01-16-2009, 11:13 PM
FVR I'm not sure why but I Really like the looks of the big knife. I don't know I think I just really like the thickness of the handle and the coffin design. It loks extremely sturdy. Did you make them? And do you throw the big one.
All I did with the big knife was put the elk antler on it. The knife was a gift many years ago, but it fell off the back of my truck last fall and hit just right and broke the fancy antler handle.
I traded a guy a mess of cane for arrows for a few elk pieces. He threw in the one I use as an extra. I did not even plan on using it, but when I picked it up it was very comfortable to hold.
I throw knives that are the same size as the one pictured, but I do not throw that knife. I can, I can stick it I know, but I really don't want to chance breaking the handle if I don't have to.
Blood Groove
01-18-2009, 02:51 AM
I knew from reading some of your other posts that you liked throwing big knives, so that's why I asked. I love throwing knives. The biggest one I have to throw is a Cold Steel Perfect Balance. It's modled after one of those Vietnam True Balance Bowie-axe knives. When that thing sinks into a piece of wood after I throw it, it's the best sound in the world. Well I really like that knife, especially the handle.
Gray Wolf
01-19-2009, 10:07 PM
RBB, is your sister-in-law's father looking to part with any of those knives?
vthompson
01-21-2009, 04:28 PM
Thank's for the pictures RBB. I love looking at knives like that.
klkak
01-21-2009, 07:57 PM
These are the two Solingen knives I own. The first one was a gift from a friend who knew I collected knives. The second I found stuck in a tree while hunting in the Sierras when I was about 10 or 11 years old. I used this knife up until a few years ago when the handle broke. One of these days I will put a new one on it.
The blade on the first is 5 1/4". The second is now 4 3/4".......many years of sharpening.
klkak
01-21-2009, 08:10 PM
This knife made by "Knives of Alaska" has become my favorite hunting knife. It is a full tang design. Made of D-2 tool steel. It has a rubberized handle that does not become slippery when covered with blood. I believe it cost me $66.00 at Sportsman's Warehouse. I'm in the process of making a different sheath for it from horse hide leather so I can wear it around my neck.
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