A Few Mitchell Knives

[sh1kar]

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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Ahh yes. But any purpose?

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

Ahh yes. But any purpose?

I presume just there to relieve the tip a little, most of the Malcberry stuff was sabre ground, when blades are sabre ground the backs of the blades, the spines, pretty much stay at the full thickness of the steel through it's length, the tips of the blades can be quite chunky.

With a full width grind you don't get that, the full width grind tapers the blade along the spine from the plunge to the tip.

 

[fizzbangwhallop]

I presume just there to relieve the tip a little, most of the Malcberry stuff was sabre ground, when blades are sabre ground the backs of the blades, the spines, pretty much stay at the full thickness of the steel through it's length, the tips of the blades can be quite chunky.

With a full width grind you don't get that, the full width grind tapers the blade along the spine from the plunge to the tip.

Comme ca….

Alongside a ‘Johnson’ from the US many years ago before ebay banned the knife sales as a comparison…




Hhmmm… the back of the tip of the Johnson is sharp too as it’s just painlessly shaved a layer of skin off my thumb trying to rub a bit of sheath dust off it…. You’d have thought that at my age I would’ve known better!?


fizz

 

[hedge hunter]

Which photo @hedge hunter ..?

Fourth photo.with the bone handle

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

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Look at the quality of that stag, beautiful...

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

Fourth photo.with the bone handle

Had me at a bit of a quandary that one, you see it has no blade mark, it never has.

Yesterday I saw this... Manchester Militaria

Same knife, same maker, I can guarantee it.

I now wonder of that stag version that you picked out @hedge hunter was destined for Wolstenholme?

 

[Jagare]

I bought two of those 1897 Malcberry Knives like the one in post #1, photo 1. They were in my gun cabinet for years and when I moved here to Sweden I gave them away to hunting friends. Very nice, well made knives as I recall.

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

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Just searching through some old threads of mine and I see that this one has been shown on here before.

10 years ago

Solid Stainless Steel Cutlery...

I thought you might all like a look at these and I stuck them in this forum too as it seemed apt for them..? I mentioned previously that my workshop is located in Portland Works here in Sheffield, well the old Works has a pretty cool claim to fame, 100 years ago when Harry Brearley discovered...

www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk

 

[finnbear270]

A great tribute to W. E. Fairbairn, E. A. Sykes and Jack Wilkinson Latham Commando fighting knife is that!

Fancy that swop?

 

[Roedeer 1962]

The second one down in first pic looks handy !

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

There has been quite a bit of mention of the Malcberry knives in here, there was quite the range of them, I didn't know.

These from an old Malcberry catalogue.

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

Looks like you might have a Drop Finger @fizzbangwhallop, have you mentioned it to a doctor?

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

Another one I have squirrelled away, this one deserves a thread of its own, I’ll sort that when I’m home…

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

You can see most of the patterns of knives in my first post in this old catalogue, there is a price list in there too.

 

[Woodsy]

Lovely to see these knives. First photo, top knife; how long is the blade?

edited to say i think i see it in the catalogue, last knife last photo; 5” blade?

 

[Stuart Mitchell]

Lovely to see these knives. First photo, top knife; how long is the blade?

edited to say i think i see it in the catalogue, last knife last photo; 5” blade?

Yes, that is the one, the C1.