Jean-Francois,

May your birthday be blessed and all you could wish for!

Thank you kindly  for your friendship.  I enjoyed looking at your harness knives.  It is one of the best that I have seen.  All the best.

Happy Birthday!

have a great day birthday jean-

Happy Birthday! I hope it's a good one.

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

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!  ;-)

Welcome to iKC .. we've a nice eclectic group here .. do take a look around .. you're bound to find something of interest .. then join in the fun !!!!

Welcome to the Great Eastern Cutlery Group, we're glad you joined us.

Welcome to the Stockman Pattern Group.