Ka-Bar owners club

Dunc · **on:** April 04, 2019, 08:45:23 PM

Hi everyone just wondered if there was an interest if I started this club

Ray S · **Reply #1 on:** April 05, 2019, 12:48:12 AM

Quote from: Dunc on April 04, 2019, 08:45:23 PM

Hi everyone just wondered if there was an interest if I started this club

ALL knives are interesting(to me anyway) but I have no objections to KA-BAR. Got a lot of them from all different era.

RF52 · **Reply #2 on:** April 05, 2019, 12:49:09 AM

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SteveC · **Reply #3 on:** April 05, 2019, 06:00:09 AM

zoidberg · **Reply #4 on:** April 05, 2019, 06:37:50 AM

Dunc · **Reply #5 on:** April 05, 2019, 07:36:05 AM

Great pic Zoidberg

Here’s a few of mine

E90ED53D-BC4C-4F72-9AA2-67830E437DDF by Duncan Moore, on Flickr

746AA5EE-DDC1-4FBF-B583-807D5B077CF3 by Duncan Moore, on Flickr

D59B8CF7-A3FE-4294-997E-F940F8D1EA05 by Duncan Moore, on Flickr

07B9E9F1-9D34-4779-8E6F-78112263371C by Duncan Moore, on Flickr

6B9E3B9C-0744-4936-9B51-17FD77D4E27C by Duncan Moore, on Flickr

sak60 · **Reply #6 on:** April 05, 2019, 11:54:29 AM

Nice ones Dunc. I’m all for a Kabar owner club. I take it you mean Kabar the brand not the style generically referred to as a Kabar.
Here’s one of mine named to a serviceman, Navy I think, Swartz 212-88-93.
It has been modified at some point by changing the sabre grind to hollow and reducing the width of the guard.

Dunc · **Reply #7 on:** April 05, 2019, 01:18:36 PM

Thats a lovely knife sak60

sak60 · **Reply #8 on:** April 05, 2019, 01:23:51 PM

Quote from: Dunc on April 05, 2019, 01:18:36 PM

Thats a lovely knife sak60

Thank you

Ray S · **Reply #9 on:** April 06, 2019, 03:27:21 AM

Here is one I found awhile back for the grand sum of $5. It looked a bit grim with what looked like rust all over it.It turned out to be hardened cosmolene(the grease like preservative that military weapons are packaged in)and proved to be reasonably easy to remove. When the sheath was cleaned up I noticed that the owner(J.P.Jones)had ink stamped his name onto the front and rear of the sheath. I didn't see a service number so it may not have been a military issue but rather a postwar acquisition. The next post will show it cleaned.

Ray S · **Reply #10 on:** April 06, 2019, 03:35:48 AM

Here is the KA-BAR cleaned and ready for use as well as another one I bought some time ago.This one had a hole drilled in the handle just in front of the pommel;likely so a lanyard could be attached.This one I believe is WWII era.Also a modern KA-BAR replica.

Ray S · **Reply #11 on:** April 06, 2019, 04:48:56 PM

Some more(Samoa):
#1Kabar scout utility.
#2 Folding hunter from the KA-BAR collector's club 1990
#3Three knives stamped Cleveland Ohio made in Hong Kong.
#4 Small fixed blade makred KA-BAR and Union Cutlery Co.

As an aside:KA-BAR changed their stamping to this( Kabar)around 1951 which helps date some of the knives. The all capitals stamp(KA-BAR)was later used on some of the collector club and other specials.

Ray S · **Reply #12 on:** April 06, 2019, 04:54:58 PM

Mo' KA-BARS:
#1 An unusual floating knife made with blade machined out in the middle.
#2 A folding hunter with jigged bone handles.
#3 A 2 blade folding hunter with genuine stag handles.
#4 a 2 blade folding hunter that originally had celluloid handles that out-gassed.I made new ones from black plexiglass and jigged them with a Dremel moto-tool.

Ray S · **Reply #13 on:** April 06, 2019, 04:59:35 PM

Still Mo':
#1 A 1977 reproduction of an early Dogs Head folding hunter.
#2 A 1970's era folding hunter with the slant logo and synthetic bone handles.
#3 A real 1920's era Dogs Head folding hunter with folding guard that locks the blade open.
#4 a 1920's era Hobo knife and fork combination that slides apart.

Ray S · **Reply #14 on:** April 06, 2019, 05:06:47 PM

Mo' and mo':
#1 A group of three different sized fish knives.
#2 An early Union Cutlery Co.tickler with jigged bone handles and steel liners and bolsters.
#3 Another Union Cutlery knife with thistle shaped handle and advertising Dardevle(hope I spelled it right) fishing lures.
#4 A very early knife/ax combination marked Keenwell;an early KA-BAR stamping.

Ray S · **Reply #15 on:** April 06, 2019, 05:16:52 PM

These pictures are the ones that were SUPPOSED to be posted with the above posts.I tried editing them but it wouldn't work.
A KA-BAR Union Cutlery Co. fixed blade.
A Union Cutlery Co. thistle handled fixed blade.

Also included is a KA-BAR woodcraft style fixed blade and a view of the Hobo knife disassembled.

Ray S · **Reply #16 on:** April 06, 2019, 05:20:48 PM

Da last ones:
An early KA-BAR jack knife with a spear point blade.
Two knives made for L.L.Bean Co. of Freeport Maine;an outfitter.
Two KA-BAR rigger's knives.
A stag handled pen knife.