Vintage USA Made and German Made Fixed Blade Knives Collection- Antiques to Modern - Hunter/History

[@GhostManCutlery]

Apologies for the wind noise in spots, it does level out a bit during the video. Thanks for watching, it’s genuinely appreciated. 🔪 🇺🇸

[@markwilkerson-dz8pe]

that is a Russell Buffalo skinner it's been used new handles

[@GhostManCutlery]

@@markwilkerson-dz8peI had my suspicion that it was, but hard to tell when the maker’s marks have been worn with time.

[@RonaldNorwood-kn4bo]

Right up my alley there. Love collecting them old fixed blades from civil war to the 1960s. Good showing!

[@GhostManCutlery]

@@RonaldNorwood-kn4bo The older stuff just speaks to me more. Thank for watching!

[@steveb6553]

Just found your channel and am a new subscriber!!! Great collection 👍 thanks for sharing!!!

[@GhostManCutlery]

@@steveb6553 Thank you man. Have a good day.

[@roubikderhovsepian2129]

Very interesting collection you have, thanks for sharing.

[@GhostManCutlery]

@@roubikderhovsepian2129 Thanks for checking out the video. Have a good one!

[@runarfjell1273]

Nice Knife Collection.

[@GhostManCutlery]

@@runarfjell1273 Thanks for watching

[@jheathen2678]

Nice collection. Them green river knives are the knives that made America. I'd live to find a couple of vintage green rivers.

[@GhostManCutlery]

I love the old butcher/skinners. There’s a real pretty pinned handle Sheffield England butcher knife that I believe is truly old at an antique store near me, but the pricetag is above what I could pay.

[@robshirewood5060]

Just subscribed and liked, all the best.

[@GhostManCutlery]

@@robshirewood5060 Thank you! Same to you.

[@Threecrows57]

Nice blades. Great work on refurbishing them keeping the patina

[@GhostManCutlery]

Thank you, I take care to let them keep their character while removing harmful rust. Thanks for checking them out, and have a good one.

[@gerardvanengelen9001]

Nice collection

[@GhostManCutlery]

Thank you! Appreciate you watching.

[@Del350K4]

What a broad and tasteful collection of fixed-blades! Your sheath-making skills are, I think, more or less on s par with mine. I, too, find that little bits missing from the edge of my welts mar the perfection. At least I've progressed from the days when I would mark out hole spacings using a hammer and a cut-down kitchen fork!

[@GhostManCutlery]

Thanks for watching! Yeah, the sheathmaking isn’t too bad considering I don’t have a bunch of professional tools haha.

[@couteauxdecollection]

Nice collection ! 👌🏻 🙋🏻‍♂️🇨🇵

[@GhostManCutlery]

@@couteauxdecollection Thank you!

[@jimmylarge1148]

I too live in Michigan!

[@GhostManCutlery]

@@jimmylarge1148 Stay warm!

[@jimmylarge1148]

@ we getting buried up here in TC!! Snow for a week straight

[@robshirewood5060]

I had one like the Fabico model without the fancy back edge, the upper clip was the same, carbon steel blade roughly 9 inches long. Stag handle with carved stag figure in the handle, has the black, red and white (cream) washers, smaller straight brass cross-guard, same sort of pommel, blood grooves, and the name on the blade was BARON in larger letters Solingen in small upper case Germany in small upper case Brown leather sheath, no name on it. Solingen was a classic place for knives I had another from there like the next one, slab stag handle with 2 brass pins/studs, same Bowie blade, about 7 inch long, blunt upper clip, nice full tang blade, ricasso had MPL but joined together as one symbol, and on the other ricasso, Solingen, Germany (both upper case) that also was Carbon steel. The sheath was brown leather, brass studs, and had a Stag carved or stamped into the leather. I never could find out who made the MPL brand even when checking with the Solingen Knifemakers Guilds. My third one was a smaller version of the MPL but made by Edge same details as above. They were catalogue knives as you stated, but i purchased mine from a gun store here in the UK new when they were clearing old stock, that had been in drawers for decades wrapped in wax paper and coated with a rubberised preservative (no rust). As you say probably 1960's era, but they are superb knives. So good that at one time Randall would buy blades from there to supplement his home factory made ones, in stainless and carbon. His Solingen versions were marked with an S so i was told. I sold mine years ago, wish i had kept them. Germany and Solingen are now having problems because of Biden's idiotic proxy war, sanctions on Russian energy which they needed for their industrial production, and the effects of de industrialisation as a result. Solingen knives might be rarer in the future. Nice collection enjoyed seeing it. Stay safe, healthy, lucky and wise everyone, may peace reign supreme everywhere.

[@GhostManCutlery]

@@robshirewood5060 Thank you for the info! I did not realize Randall used Solingen blades at all. Very cool. It’s interesting all the intermingling and different names that were put on these blades. All stout, great knives. Be well yourself friend, the world’s gone crazy. Especially in your neck of the woods.

[@robshirewood5060]

@@GhostManCutlery You certainly got that right, crazy is not strong enough, insane or lunatic is more likely. we want peace not more crazy poxy proxy wars. My father had the idea to buy a Randall 14 made by the original Bo Randall around 1974, from carbon steel, in their catalogue at the time it mentioned the Solingen blades, i read it many times as a kid dreaming of owning at least one, he never did buy one, neither have i. Wish i still had the catalog too. All the best.

[@GhostManCutlery]

@@robshirewood5060I found a guy who had two Randalls tucked away at a Flea Market. Needless to say, I will probably never own one, as he wanted over $1000 USD ea. Only ones I had ever seen in person.