Pat Mitchell that is…
A Few Mitchell Knives
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That is why they are out and what I’m pondering
I never knew the Malcberry 1897’s were Pat’s too….
That adds another to my small collection (stash) of PM’s…
That adds another to my small collection (stash) of PM’s…
I'll put a bit of text in here in a bit, it's a bind when I'm in the workshop and on my phone though 
Strangely enough though uploading photos on my phone is easier?? No limit on size either??
Strangely enough though uploading photos on my phone is easier?? No limit on size either??
hedge hunter
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The third one on the right is a belter stuart. How long is the blade
Yes, my parents worked together at this stage and did loads for Malcberry at that time.I never knew the Malcberry 1897’s were Pat’s too….
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That adds another to my small collection (stash) of PM’s…
My uncle (dads brother) was an electrical engineer for the NCB, that is how long ago it was, anyway, he rigged a set up where we took some of the machines, the ones that I still work on today, to one of the Game Fairs, might have been Woburn but I was just a kid, they built a workshop on the Malcberry stand there making knives.
I might have a photo somewhere.
Agreed, they will have played a big part in what Harry was to make.
I can easily place all those knives in that photo in timeline order, I might do it tomorrow.
I recall a time when all knives had metal bolsters/guards, whatever you want to call them, they had to have them, it was a given.
At this time there were three knifemakers doing the 'shows', us, Alan and Geoff, that was it, we all knew each other, got together in the evenings and had a laugh.
Alan's connection with Ray, or rather the Woodlore knife, changed everything, all of a sudden knives didn't need bolsters to be acceptable.
Kind of good, kind of bad too though.
This one is pretty cool, maybe less than a dozen of these exist.
The blade is a reworked Malcberry, from the '1897' range, reworked to a whittle tang (folk call it stick tang these days but trust me, the correct name is whittle tang) the handle is aluminium which is cast into place around that tang.
I went through a phase of doing some sand casting which brought this dalliance to life, it basically involved making a wooden handle that was fitted to the tangs, a sand mould formed around the blade/wooden handle, mould split, wooden handle removed, blade placed back into the blade shaped void in the mould, mould placed back together and then the molten alloy poured into the void that the wooden handle had left behind.
We then masked the blades and had the handles powder coated to finish.
Anyone ever seen another?
They were the days
Which photo @hedge hunter ..?
I seem to dimly think I might have done. Why the notch on top at the tip of the blade?
Those Malcberry blades, or at least a lot of them, already had them @sh1kar, have a look at fizzbangwhallop's knife in post #9 of this thread.
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