The replacement scales on that Electrician's knife might be celluloid , it was a very popular scale material well into the 20th century .It was easily worked , but had three drawbacks #1-It shrunk as it aged ,#2-it became cloudy or foggy as it aged and #3 it was very flammable. Sand a small section , if you smell a solvent type scent it is most likely celluloid. Great video . Peace , Be Free.
Niiiice haul!!! I am all for what modern tech has to offer in pocket knives and multi tools etc but there is something so special about these old school folding knives... Love hearing the history behind them!!
Just a note on a starter pistol: if you are in the stands timing a race always watch for the smoke to start your timer. Do not start your timer when you hear the signature of the starter pistol. Of course today most races are timed electronically, making timing by hand obsolete.
Yep. My dad is a retired lineman and when I showed him an electrician's knife, he said he never used one. Like you, a hawkbill (fixed blade) was his tool of choice.
Nice find. I enjoy garage/yard sales almost to a point of a sickness just for things like this. I think that the two knives from Utica & Cutmaster that don't have wooden scales like the pruning knife are most likely Bakelite or celluloid. I also suspect maybe the one with deformed scales is that way from exposure to solvents on the job as Bakelite/celluloid is just an older type of plastic & are original to the knife. Just a thought. You also mentioned the pins do look original & said you weren't sure because it didn't have a bail. I noticed as I'm sure you later did that none of the 3 Utica/Cutmaster knives had a bail. Perhaps the scales on all 3 are original but the electrician's knife is deformed/melted from years of use by working hands covered in grease & solvents or maybe heat.
I have a U.S.CAMILLUS KNIFE. BUT MINE IS DATED 1958.The awl tool is bent a little.blade is sharp but good solid knife,except awl has a little play. I use to have one that was dated 1964 but traded it for a tiny knife from Italy. Those kind of knives are what I started out collecting.I love them
The Volcano starter revolver was a buy for two, they sold for ten dollars new. The pistol sold back in the 1960's , a collector pistol. A hunting dog trainer or starter pistol. Kevin Phoenix
I remember buying the us knives for $5 at gunshows back in the 90s..Pretty goid tool.I ground the awl down on a knife so I could use it for adjusting sight screws.
Catching up on your videos. I was wondering when you'd get to electricians/TL-29 patterns! I just got an old Imperial electricians knife and love it. Any chance you'd do a whole video on the history and various companies on that? That one with the glass cutter is really great find! Very unique.
The MIL-K-818 ( aka demo knife ) is very common but they still command a minimum of $20 in even the worst condition on Ebay. Btw the UTICA cutlery company is still in business today and their main line is still Kutmaster their bread and butter line. They still make the electricians knife for Klein Tools.
@Boss Hog Next to a camillus from the 70's-80's that was commonly made for Craftsman, those Klein lovkbacks are the closest looking of all the 110 inspired knives out there. I hear it's a great knife but I personally prefer to stick the real deal which inspired it.
@@cutlerylover oh I know they didn't make them all. Just like with the marlin spike knives. Camillus just had better production lines and could produce higher quality on the mass production level.
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whats funny is your thumbnail...rip...also a few tiems wont hurt anything its an ongoing thign in the gun community toi not dry fire rimfire guns BUT some makers say it wont damsage anythung for example ruger sais go for it the 10/22 dry fires all the time, lol the Ruger 10/22, unless you keep a close watch on how many rounds you’ve discharged, each empty magazine ends with a *click* with your firing pin falling on an empty chamber, which is the same as dry firing...but some companies like S&W suggest not to do that as it MAY damage the firing pin...for this video I wasnt worried in order to show how it works...
cutlerylover was a complete joke brotha, since people say not to dry fire a rimfire/.22 but this isn’t a firearm as you had mentioned. Great deal on the knives. Been following you since ~2011. Be safe.
@@ticktology thanks man, this "gun" does still work the same way in that it pinches the primer on a rimfire round but instead of the primer igniting a charge and sending a bullet out of the gun just the primer goes off and makes noise... so it may be a concern for some :) and thanks im glad you still enjoy the vids
Which one would you recommend a Spearhead stonewashed neck knife or would you recommend Kilimanjaro Stretta Neck Knife looking for something comfortable for me would be worn alot
Amazing finds - I've never even heard of a glass cutter on a pocket knife!!! I actually thought that was an old Colt revolver. Great show. Thanks a lot! Subbed. 😁👍
I had a starter revolver like that from Italy I believe, I used it for a little while just for fun. The housing that the hammer hits broke threw where it pokes through to strike the primer
I tried to find an email address for you but there isn't one listed just a mailing address. I would be interested in buying the starter pistol. My grandma bought me one just like that one when I was a kid. (I'm 56 now) I've been married 39yrs and we've moved several times in those years and it got lost in the shuffle during one of those moves. If you're interested in getting in touch let me know how can contact you. I'm not much for commenting but I really enjoy your channel.
thanks Rabndy but is has already been sold before this video was uploaded...Im sure you can find another one like it online if you search long enough these generally arent too expensive roughly $50-100 is great condition...
unlike many other antiques where cleaning devalues the knife I wouldn't worry about these the better condition they are the more they would fetch in a sale...I woudl clean them enough tio make them functional so blades and tools can come out easily...and markings can be read...
No wonder the can opener was stiff to open - you had the screwdriver sitting at the half-stop on the same spring. *Never* open two blades on a pocketknife halfway that run on the same spring. It puts undue strain on the spring and can even lead to catastrophic failure.
Oh my god! I had that pistol when I was a little kid and lost it during a fake war with my friends! (We never actually loaded it.) Wow, wish I could have picked that up. (Even more since I’m close to the Hawley area)
Good cache especially the old stockman I’d be willing to bet that the shield is pinned. Sadly with the advent of super glue most knives now have glued in shields. Case still overs a good knife but the damn shields are glued in and will fall out . I’ve even seen one in the display case with a gapping hole in the scale and the shield lying in the bottom of the case
Wow! Starter pistol circa 1968-70. Knife cover maybe old electrified imitation tortoise shell? Camillus US demo knife with a broken spring due to opening both tools on the same spring half-way. It was supposed to be to hard because too many GI's broke their springs. If their is a date on the blade or tool it may have been issued or just for sale in the PX. Looking at that old German knife it looks like a molded tin (aluminum?) cover/bolster which would be a cost and resource saving technique used during a crisis such as during and after wartime. So maybe as late as the 30's-40's?
About that German folder; contact Stefan Schmalhaus (another UA-camr) & send him some pictures of it. Then there's "Hobie on UA-cam" too, he's also another collector of old time folders.
Only the one's marked for the Air Force were not directly related to the military. Real issue "Demo" knives had the serial number inside the body of the knife on the spring. Camillus invented the prototype and made them for the military from WW2 to the end of the 90's. Various other companies made them as well. Kingston and Stevens made them in WW2 after Camillus invented them. We took the can opener design from the Germans. The Marine Corps did have the knives that said: USMC you need to read Don Rearic! Utica was the city in upstate NY that made the knives.
That one marked Germany was probably made for export. Otherwise it would be marked Deutschland or Germania. I have a Kriegsmarine dagger, post war. It is made by the company,Hubertus, that made them for the Kriegsmarine. However, the swastika on the pommel is erased and it is also marked, in English, made in Germany.
The replacement scales on that Electrician's knife might be celluloid , it was a very popular scale material well into the 20th century .It was easily worked , but had three drawbacks #1-It shrunk as it aged ,#2-it became cloudy or foggy as it aged and #3 it was very flammable. Sand a small section , if you smell a solvent type scent it is most likely celluloid. Great video . Peace , Be Free.
The knife that has the US in the front my dad actually has. He worked for the government for the Dept of agriculture and was given to him.
Niiiice haul!!! I am all for what modern tech has to offer in pocket knives and multi tools etc but there is something so special about these old school folding knives... Love hearing the history behind them!!
Just a note on a starter pistol: if you are in the stands timing a race always watch for the smoke to start your timer. Do not start your timer when you hear the signature of the starter pistol. Of course today most races are timed electronically, making timing by hand obsolete.
The “US” marked one is included in parachute survival kits
I was a high voltage lineman for many years. The curved blade looks like the one we used for skinning wire.
Yep. My dad is a retired lineman and when I showed him an electrician's knife, he said he never used one. Like you, a hawkbill (fixed blade) was his tool of choice.
Here in Appalachia where coal mining is the main occupation electricians in the mines use hawk bill knives a lot to skin wire
That pruner brings back memories, my grandmother used one just like it to garden and can
My dad used that pistol to train duck dogs he was really big into duck hunting .
That's what most blank guns are sold for here in the UK.
It's crazy I've been watching for 4 years this is awesome how he keeps pumping videos good work
That “electricians knife” handles might be made out of Bakelite
Nice find. I enjoy garage/yard sales almost to a point of a sickness just for things like this.
I think that the two knives from Utica & Cutmaster that don't have wooden scales like the pruning knife are most likely Bakelite or celluloid. I also suspect maybe the one with deformed scales is that way from exposure to solvents on the job as Bakelite/celluloid is just an older type of plastic & are original to the knife. Just a thought.
You also mentioned the pins do look original & said you weren't sure because it didn't have a bail. I noticed as I'm sure you later did that none of the 3 Utica/Cutmaster knives had a bail. Perhaps the scales on all 3 are original but the electrician's knife is deformed/melted from years of use by working hands covered in grease & solvents or maybe heat.
cracking knives, please show us some more of your older collection.
Glad to hear that Jeff and family are being sensible about the virus. Stay safe, stay prepared.
I have a U.S.CAMILLUS KNIFE. BUT MINE IS DATED 1958.The awl tool is bent a little.blade is sharp but good solid knife,except awl has a little play. I use to have one that was dated 1964 but traded it for a tiny knife from Italy. Those kind of knives are what I started out collecting.I love them
Those aren't the right kind of blanks for that gun, they use really short blanks usually labelled as 6mm.
Like floberts?
@@777-p2t Yeah but with no pellet.
@@hornmonk3zit ok didn't know that there was blanks like that. Thanks. Was asking because I have a floberts gallery gun.
The Volcano starter revolver was a buy for two,
they sold for ten dollars new. The pistol sold back
in the 1960's , a collector pistol. A hunting dog trainer or starter pistol.
Kevin Phoenix
My driver used to carry that US knife. It was used in our bomb kit. That was 20 years ago.
Sweet find, I love old knives
All interesting finds, but that stockman is a gem.
I remember buying the us knives for $5 at gunshows back in the 90s..Pretty goid tool.I ground the awl down on a knife so I could use it for adjusting sight screws.
Catching up on your videos. I was wondering when you'd get to electricians/TL-29 patterns! I just got an old Imperial electricians knife and love it. Any chance you'd do a whole video on the history and various companies on that? That one with the glass cutter is really great find! Very unique.
Awesome finds partner! You scored! I bought a modern flare gun a couple months ago at a yard sale, a modern one (orange kind). Congrats!
I have an electricians knife that looks alot like the first knife in this video. Mine is made by Klein. Very cool old knife.
The MIL-K-818 ( aka demo knife ) is very common but they still command a minimum of $20 in even the worst condition on Ebay.
Btw the UTICA cutlery company is still in business today and their main line is still Kutmaster their bread and butter line.
They still make the electricians knife for Klein Tools.
@Boss Hog
Next to a camillus from the 70's-80's that was commonly made for Craftsman, those Klein lovkbacks are the closest looking of all the 110 inspired knives out there.
I hear it's a great knife but I personally prefer to stick the real deal which inspired it.
@Boss Hog
The Klein and Camillus, or Klein and 110 ?
I have some older knives and weapons I recently found could I send s pic of them and maybe u could tell me something about them?
That .22 starter would be great for a low budget UA-cam film-maker who needs a fake gun in an action scene, maybe a Film Noir or something.
The first plastics were bakelite. Kinda brownish with a texture. Were the first non-glass insulators also. Might be?
I have the exact same starter pistol, it was my g-pas, glad to get to see a packaging box for it!! Good stuff my friend!
Cool man Nice finds. All these central/upstate NY produced knives!
utica or albany?
Иван Грозный Franklinville, Camillus, Utica. And Crucible steel in Syracuse. Well I guess franklinville would technically be western NY
@@jerrymillett3895 they got any steamed hams up there?
Иван Грозный I never heard of this. But I’d guess they’re somewhere around.
Too bad Camillus went out they made quality knives for years that a working man could afford
Most of those US multi tool knives were made by Camillus regardless of the branding. Camillus made knives for many companies.
yes including cold steel...however they dint make them all :)
@@cutlerylover oh I know they didn't make them all. Just like with the marlin spike knives. Camillus just had better production lines and could produce higher quality on the mass production level.
You held the mark on the glass cutter of the German knife is upside-down. The "tail" is most likely a crown and the "wings" are probably a scroll.
Hello from Bangalore, India. I've been your subscriber for the past decade. Always interesting to watch your unique style (to me) of reviews. I recall an incident where your UA-cam channel was hacked and videos were deleted or something like that.
Awesome that I reconnected here (virtually) with you. Same style, same voice, same awesome experience. Keep it up! Hope y'all are doing well and safe!
I just used some Flitz to clean up an old knife. Works great. Do you use it?
yes been using it for many years :)
I had that same one when i was in my teens for bird control fun little item and that one was made in the 70s to mid 80s
Very cool finds !!!!
No hate what so ever but the videos since the new 4k camera have been a bit blurry when you are not zoomed in
Great video, those are some nice finds
The last Utica is in hungarian style, google for Maskara to get it.
Hey, I live not even an hour away from Utica :)
Good yard sale find!
Brother that glass cutter knife is really cool. I'm almost positive that's a book with wings and a crown.
yeah I can see that
You're seeing things my sister.
The scales on the electricians knife is celluloid
Not many people know this but the us one is also a cheese grater
Great find!
Use the revolver to scare bears away
thats illegal in canada
Love the vids Jeff, long time subscriber here and hopefully many years to come!
Subscribed to Jeff the same time as I did to nutnfancy 8-9 yeras ago. I would have been very surprised back then knowing that that it's actually nutn that would become annoying to watch 🙂
That starter revolvers cool!
I have a camillus too! Mines a 1960.
Nice Find
That's a whole lot of enjoyment for 7 dollars. Thanks for sharing with us!
3rd knife I was always told was called a carpet knife. And only the best best were born in 1975😁
My friend has that starter pistol it’s pretty cool
Also the handle could be Bakelite
I have that very US folder. Me got it in Army.
You could send the u.s. military pocketknife to Glen Brooks in Benton, Tenn., an ask him to repair or replace the back spring on it.
I remember those pistols were sold in Kmart back in the 70s when I was a kid. Back when they had the little restaurant in the back of the store.
cool stuff Jeff :)
Jeff, you don’t want to dry fire a .22! 🤣
whats funny is your thumbnail...rip...also a few tiems wont hurt anything its an ongoing thign in the gun community toi not dry fire rimfire guns BUT some makers say it wont damsage anythung for example ruger sais go for it the 10/22 dry fires all the time, lol the Ruger 10/22, unless you keep a close watch on how many rounds you’ve discharged, each empty magazine ends with a *click* with your firing pin falling on an empty chamber, which is the same as dry firing...but some companies like S&W suggest not to do that as it MAY damage the firing pin...for this video I wasnt worried in order to show how it works...
cutlerylover was a complete joke brotha, since people say not to dry fire a rimfire/.22 but this isn’t a firearm as you had mentioned. Great deal on the knives. Been following you since ~2011. Be safe.
@@ticktology thanks man, this "gun" does still work the same way in that it pinches the primer on a rimfire round but instead of the primer igniting a charge and sending a bullet out of the gun just the primer goes off and makes noise... so it may be a concern for some :) and thanks im glad you still enjoy the vids
Which one would you recommend a Spearhead stonewashed neck knife or would you recommend Kilimanjaro Stretta Neck Knife looking for something comfortable for me would be worn alot
The knife you called a pruning knife was also used as a carpet cutting knife.
the blade style (hawkbill) is used for several things including linoleum cutting
When I graduated from AIT in 69 I was issued a knife like that US marked knife I was a joke Hercules electronic tech
Interesting info !
might be bake-a-lite,do not store it with other knives,it releases a gas that will cause rust.
Amazing finds - I've never even heard of a glass cutter on a pocket knife!!! I actually thought that was an old Colt revolver.
Great show. Thanks a lot! Subbed. 😁👍
Might be Bakelite...?
I had a starter revolver like that from Italy I believe, I used it for a little while just for fun. The housing that the hammer hits broke threw where it pokes through to strike the primer
Sooo...are we gonna get a video of you testing the "gun"?
no, sorry its already gone to a new owner, I got it with the intentions of making this video and selling it...
I have an electrician knife from my grandfather it’s case brand
Nice, hang on to that one!
I haven’t seen a Case electrician
I tried to find an email address for you but there isn't one listed just a mailing address. I would be interested in buying the starter pistol. My grandma bought me one just like that one when I was a kid. (I'm 56 now) I've been married 39yrs and we've moved several times in those years and it got lost in the shuffle during one of those moves. If you're interested in getting in touch let me know how can contact you. I'm not much for commenting but I really enjoy your channel.
Col. Jeff Smith
2505 Hemlock Farms
Hawley, PA 18428
thanks Rabndy but is has already been sold before this video was uploaded...Im sure you can find another one like it online if you search long enough these generally arent too expensive roughly $50-100 is great condition...
Jeff, what's the best procedure in caring for these knives looking to resale them? Do you clean them or leave them as is?
unlike many other antiques where cleaning devalues the knife I wouldn't worry about these the better condition they are the more they would fetch in a sale...I woudl clean them enough tio make them functional so blades and tools can come out easily...and markings can be read...
THANKS👍🏻
No wonder the can opener was stiff to open - you had the screwdriver sitting at the half-stop on the same spring. *Never* open two blades on a pocketknife halfway that run on the same spring. It puts undue strain on the spring and can even lead to catastrophic failure.
The starter gun seems like a cooler Cap gun :).
Oh my god! I had that pistol when I was a little kid and lost it during a fake war with my friends! (We never actually loaded it.)
Wow, wish I could have picked that up. (Even more since I’m close to the Hawley area)
The first knife looks like some sort of epoxy adhesive then molded into handles
Good cache especially the old stockman I’d be willing to bet that the shield is pinned. Sadly with the advent of super glue most knives now have glued in shields. Case still overs a good knife but the damn shields are glued in and will fall out . I’ve even seen one in the display case with a gapping hole in the scale and the shield lying in the bottom of the case
nice cache to you too partner. Welcome to the colonels channel
You are the best If I buy a knife I check if you review it you are just awsome
Wow! Starter pistol circa 1968-70. Knife cover maybe old electrified imitation tortoise shell? Camillus US demo knife with a broken spring due to opening both tools on the same spring half-way. It was supposed to be to hard because too many GI's broke their springs. If their is a date on the blade or tool it may have been issued or just for sale in the PX.
Looking at that old German knife it looks like a molded tin (aluminum?) cover/bolster which would be a cost and resource saving technique used during a crisis such as during and after wartime. So maybe as late as the 30's-40's?
I had one years ago that would shoot the .22 blanks os these little tear gas cartages. I ordered it from the back of a magazine back in the early 80s.
hi im open to trade or buy the starting revolver is there a way to contact you?
thanks but it is already gone
cutlerylover Ah oh well
Its close to a real gun but hey
What plague 😳
super great find a starter gun for only $2!
Is there a real revolver that looks like this and shoot a projectile?
I like the idea of j frame style with 22 short
I buy that stockman for 2 bucks. Lol
the third knife kinda looks like "The Mexican Sacatripe" from Surviving Edged Weapons.
About that German folder; contact Stefan Schmalhaus (another UA-camr) & send him some pictures of it. Then there's "Hobie on UA-cam" too, he's also another collector of old time folders.
Only the one's marked for the Air Force were not directly related to the military. Real issue "Demo" knives had the serial number inside the body of the knife on the spring. Camillus invented the prototype and made them for the military from WW2 to the end of the 90's. Various other companies made them as well. Kingston and Stevens made them in WW2 after Camillus invented them. We took the can opener design from the Germans. The Marine Corps did have the knives that said: USMC you need to read Don Rearic! Utica was the city in upstate NY that made the knives.
That stockmen is sweet
That’s a nicer starter pistol jeff. Probably get 50 to 80 for it
Nah, Italian starter pistols have always been of very dubious quality.
That one marked Germany was probably made for export. Otherwise it would be marked Deutschland or Germania. I have a Kriegsmarine dagger, post war. It is made by the company,Hubertus, that made them for the Kriegsmarine. However, the swastika on the pommel is erased and it is also marked, in English, made in Germany.
Y U so kewl?
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Yes good job
@@promiscuousalgae
So?
The best way to demarcate the first comment is to just type "i have no life"
@@frakismaximus3052
Don’t live your life in fear.
...ok lol
Is there a real revolver that looks like this and shoot a projectile?
I like the idea of j frame style with 22 short
YES I have one that looks the same as this very small cap gun looking revolver that only shorts 22 shorts...