soooo are we going to see this one listed on your web site in oldies/goodies??????

Knife gradually darkens
them a pleasure to use)
For fun, I measure the hardness - 54 HRc.
As said a specialist laboratory, it is very close to the standard for this steel.

My #8-4, I picked up used this year without a sheath.
Found a sheath online to make it whole again

Super nice pick and a great user.

Pap

I was looking for Joe's Brown Micarta page but couldn't find it..

Bill,

You can go to Mitchell's CD of the RKS newsletters and find it in the August 2003 newsletter, or onto his website and you can see it there also.

Or you can just read the most recent Knife Knews...
:-)Rocky

True and true! But I just wanted to post this knife under that title. Although this isn't "old" brown micarta from the 60's, it is quite a looker anyhow!

Bill -

go to the site and click on "The Randall Collector" at the bar on the top of the page. It will open that section and there are four pages of articles. I think it is on the second or third page.

When i updated the site a few months ago the chronological order from the old site got screwed by my web guy as well as the dates. I have not figured out how to correct it nor taken the time to attempt it as of yet.

Also I was asked about 3 thick 2 thin spacer arrangements on model 8's and other small knives even though this was still 7 spacer time. I wrote about this years ago and again to the best that I can tell, it is not uncommon to find these smaller knives from the later 60's to have this spacer arrangement on non-leather handles, particularly stag and ivory it seems. It also seems to be reserved for 3/16" bladed knives.

I don't think it was earlier than say 1967-68 or so. I don't recall offhand seeing a documented piece from any earlier with the 3 thick 2 thin.

Thanks Joe!

I also stumbled across another one of your rmkcollector pages that was quite different than what I normally see. It had the old brown micarta knives shown on it. A true thing of beauty!