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Our international membership is happily involved with “Anything that goes ‘cut’!” August 2021 The Spanish Navaja Kelly Lane The navaja was first adopted around the early 1700s asa by the (gypsies) in southern . For me, a typical Spanish navaja knife is quickly identifiable. I used to live (and make ) in Spain for about 13 years; and while having lived there and collected a few navaja knives (pronounced like ‘nah vah hah’), some folks think I should be somewhat of an expert on them. However, I was not an expert; and I thought I better do some research for this article you are now reading. Despite its distinctive knife look, the word navaja in Spanish is quite general and vague. According to my trusty, well used Spanish to English dictionary, the word “navaja” has definitions listed as: (clasp) knife, jackknife or or Large navajas were traditionally worn pushed into a belt or even a . Just about any folding knife can be called sash, with the distinctively curved handle left exposed to a navaja. Researching further in The Complete Encyclopedia of withdraw the knife when required. Among navaja aficionados, Knives, no listing at all is found there (not quite complete) ... the barateros (collectors of gambling debts) in the streets of However, under the Spanish cutlery company section, there are Málaga and were cited as the most skilled practitioners some photos I quickly recognized as navajas, but the text only of fighting with the knife. But the navaja was not just for indicated that it was a “folding knife.” So, to the Internet I go common people or gypsies, it was also carried by Spanish and researched “clasp knife,” where I found out that term was men and women of all classes and backgrounds, including the first used in 1734, referring to yet again a folding knife. I even upper classes, the clergy, and the aristocracy. Those premium, came across one knife “blogger” that believes the navaja is ornate, antique examples found in museums today that were actually of Norwegian/Viking origin… Despite the reasoning commissioned by the upper classes, exhibit expensive materials in his blog, I am still convinced it originated in Spain. and laborious craftsmanship. I can only dream of holding one Frustrated with my research results, I will now try to provide of those navajas someday…I’ve seen some beauties! a good, but loose, definition of what a “typical” Spanish The classical navaja bandolera is a variation with a navaja is, at least what it is in my mind; Most are: folding blade, a design featuring a concave unsharpened false edge , with one blade, often locking open with one of near the blade tip. Some historians believe the navaja's blade several distinctive Spanish mechanisms, sometimes audible, shape served as inspiration for the American Bowie. Compared ranging in size from miniature to huge display pieces but to its slender, curved, almost feminine, handle, the exaggerated typically with blades from 3” to 8” long; generally with a belly and sometimes recurved blade of this knife is particularly curved handle shape; always folders and never with a nail nick large and menacing. - but never say never. Most of the larger navajas of the period were clearly intended Early on, the imposition of laws restricting the carrying as fighting knives and were popularly referred to as santólios, of swords and other offensive weapons in Spain and Italy a contraction of the Spanish term for "holy oil." This name (Kingdom of Naples at the time), only served to increase the was a reference to the oils applied to a dying person as part of popularity of concealable knives, such as the navaja, in a culture the Catholic last sacrament, as it was believed that any man devoted to edged weapons. Knife fighting was regularly taught encountering such a knife in a violent confrontation would and, in the 18th and 19th century, knife fighting schools could likely require administration of the last rites. be found in major cities throughout , Spain. Continued on page 4 definitive information available by the Drivdahl, Kelly Lane, Rich The Seek-Re-Tary October 2021 Knewslettter. Ridgeway and Dan Westlind. Report We are thankful for the individuals who We will have another no host elayne have supported our organization during dinner non-meeting August these testing times. Your continued 18, 2021, at Sizzler Restaurant, We are hanging in there by our toes which membership has been an encouragement Gateway, Springfield, Oregon. is not as secure a position as if we were for the officers to continue. Bernard Levine will forward using our fingers. But at least we are We had a no host dinner non-meeting on emails to those who have requested trying. We have been receiving phone July 21. There were 20 present. It was notification. Thank you Bernard. calls and emails of individuals who are the first opportunity to be together since Thank you Lisa Wages for your eager for the Holiday Show 2021 and February 2020. The enthusiasm was high continued monitoring of our Facebook the 2022 OKCA April Show. We are, and a needed pump to all those present. We site. It is appreciated. however, very cautious in our comments. requested a show of support for the current We do not want to jinx ourselves and are Please advise if your mailing address, slate of officers. It was unanimous. Thank email address or phone number changes. trying to anticipate the obstacles that we you to those who have supported us. might again face. We will announce on See us on Facebook or visit the website. our website (oregonknifeclub.org) and We are attempting to keep your interest Hopefully we will see you at our next non- our Facebook page when we are accepting and support by publishing the Knewslettter meeting. applications for the December 11, 2021 during these summer months. The support of so many who have contributed articles is Thank you for your continued support of Holiday Show and the April 8-10, 2022 the OKCA. OKCA Show. We hope we will have more very much appreciated. Thank you Martin

quality, uses, etc. I stopped and was amazed Mel was an advisor to Camillus when they Knife Mentor by the beauty, feel and just plain quality of did the Remington Bullet reproduction Rich Ridgeway the cutlery that a man was explaining to series. They actually had some of his mint me. I learned they were mostly Marble’s bullet knives to use for accuracy. Mel was and Remington. All were very old. I needed invited to the Camillus factory to meet the a good skinning knife that was easy to president of the company, and he asked me maintain. This man explained the Marble’s to go with him. It was awesome to see the Expert would be his choice. He had hunted inside of such a well-known factory and sit all over, including Alaska. He said I could in the office of the president, Mr. Jim Furgal. own the knife for $30.00. If I used it and did He gave Mel and me one of the cartridge not like it, I could return series knives being the knife for my money produced at the time and back. Done, deal, and signed the boxes. I own out the door I went. both now. A month goes by and I My collection of returned to the show and Marble’s and Remington head for the table with knives has grown the tall, well dressed, immensely over the older gentleman. He years. More important recognized me, invited are the new friends that me to sit down and talk share my love of antique about my new knife and knives. Members of how I liked it. He introduced himself, and we the OKCA and the old Northwest Knife So…How did you get interested in knives? became good friends. Collectors have been extremely valuable in increasing my knowledge of knives; I It was 1984 and I had just been appointed From that time on Mel Brewster became my appreciate each and everyone of you. Fire Chief for the City of Tumwater. I was mentor, and he enjoyed having a young man 35 years old and scared as hell. I had only around. Mel and I would see each other at As I sit at my table in Eugene, I have noticed been a professional fire fighter for 13 years least once a week for lunch. He helped me the lack of young new knife collectors. and had been given an opportunity to lead with the challenges at my work and started Having a mentor greatly increased my a great department in a great city. I enjoyed me on my journey of . He passion for knife collecting. I greatly hunting and fishing but was not interested in took me to my first knife show in Eugene; encourage you to become a mentor to a collecting anything, especially old things. and I sat at his table, met many knife young person, so he may become a collector collectors and walked around wide eyed. I and keep our hobby going. The rewards are So here I am tripping through the Puyallup looked forward to joining Mel in Eugene for immense. Let’s all do our part in promoting Gun Show, and I see a table with lots of several years, including the year I took my knife collecting. knives. I had never owned a good knife son to his first knife show there. or had any knowledge of manufacturers, blue from a Bob Barr Bros. Cutlery Cummings from ibdennis Minnesota. He had In 1891 the Barr Brothers came to a W.R. Barr hunting Eugene and founded a cutlery company. knife from his At the current site of the University of father’s estate. He Oregon Matthew Knight Arena, the Barr tracked down the factory replaced the sounds of bouncing articles I had written beauty. It is hammer forged with a taper basketballs with the noise of the trip about the Barr Bros. and was looking tang with great fit to the guard and sports hammer as they forged their wares. I for information on his knife. Any item Myrtlewood handles. Myrtlewood trees have collected the array of tools they that was stamped W.R. Barr was made grow in the coastal area of the southwest made for 25 plus years. Everything was prior to 1890 while the brothers were Oregon coast. It has personality and handmade, so examples of the items located in Roseburg. After the phone talks to me about previous times. are difficult to find. Prior to 1891 the conversation, we continued with emails. Bob’s father was a regular attendee of The conversation with Bob was brothers were in Roseburg, Oregon, awesome. He said he wanted me to have which is 72 miles south of Eugene. It our Oregon Show and often spoke fondly of his enjoyment being at our Show. the Barr knife. He believed it would be a was there that William Barr made a few good fit with me, because of the articles hunting knives in the fashion of the then I expressed interest in this knife, and I had written and the enjoyment of his popular Sheffield pattern Bob said he would send it me.. Based father at our Oregon Show. He said that and stamped them with the W.R. Barr on my reaction, we could discuss that the joy of giving meant more to him than name. ole money or trade thing later. Off to the any transaction. The kindness shown by Fast forward to June 2021 when I bank I went to secure my credit line. The some people does produce a happiness received a telephone call out of the knife arrived and as one can see, it is a of its own. On both sides.

the article that was submitted on a paper quite successful. OKCA Knews dinner napkin. Remember you & Musings Thank you to Martin Drivdahl, Kelly must be a current ibdennis Lane, Rich Ridgeway and Dan member of the Westlind for your words which appear OKCA (2021 Policy OKCA in this Knewslettter. or greater) to advertise in our The policy of the OKCA Knewslettter July OKCA meeting Knewslettter has been to publish only knife related It happened. We had 20 plus members in or on our items. We do not do social news such as attendance. It was great. Spirits were over Facebook page or on our links. births, deaths, weddings, bar mitzvahs, the top, and I do not mean the drinking confirmations, arrests or prison releases. type. We will do it again on August 18, Never have. But... in these trying times Governor willing. The Sizzler faire was we have lost some of our members who good, and there was the long lost salad have succumbed to Covid. The saddest bar for which the Sizzler is known. part is that they were adamant that they were not going to get a vaccination. I December Holiday Show am saddened I will not see them again. I It looks promising that we will have the want to see every one of the people I last Holiday (December/Mini/Winter) Show saw at the April 2019 Show again at the December 11, 2021. We deserve it. April 2022 Show. Come October we will he able to accept Articles are life giving payment for this Show and hopefully be able to publish an application for I am still beating the drum for words. payments for the April 2022 Show. We Articles about knives. We have had will need to keep our fingers crossed. response from my pleas, but more is needed. If one looks back at all the Ads R Us articles that have been printed in the Don’t forget about the free ads in our Knewslettter, you will never find one Knewslettter! Just pop your for sale or that isn’t readable, entertaining and wants to us, and they will be added to educational. And that even applies to the adverts page. The results have been Bryan & Teddy August 2021 The Spanish Navaja continued from page 1 During the first part of the 18th century, the blade tang and backspring of the navaja were cleverly altered to provide a locking device for the blade. This new ratcheting-tooth lock-blade knife was commonly referred to as a Navaja de Muelles (molar teeth). The metal- to-metal contact produces a distinctive clicking sound when the blade is opened. During my time there, I learned that this type of “noisy” knife is also called a Navaja Carraca (rattle knife – think rattlesnake tail). A carraca’s rattle sound earned the knife a dark reputation, so that just the sound of opening the knife could usually scare off any adversary who might cause trouble. Something we Americans could relate to, as like the sound of pumping a shotgun as a warning.

Carraca Lock

Some interesting dates in history: The Carraca/Navaja de Muelles was specifically named by the Marqués de la Mina, the Spanish military governor of (where I lived), in his edict of 29 May 1750, prohibiting the carrying of armas blancas, or edged weapons. The Spanish navaja was used against Napoleon during his invasion and subsequent occupation of Spain in the Peninsular War of 1808–1814. Around 1850 a metal pull ring was incorporated into the lock to facilitate blade closure, similar to a “pick lock” knife. Later the ring was discarded (I While the ratcheting carraca sound can the classic Spanish folders in the form have seen several broken examples) and still be found on some knives, most of a discontinued Ed Schemp designed was replaced with a metal lever lift lock examples now use a simplified locking Navaja, and even a very new system found on most navaja knives mechanism consisting of a lug attached knife from Kershaw I recently saw today. to the backspring that engages a single advertised – the XL Strata Flipper. I slot machined into the blade's tang. plan to make my own representation of In 1858 navajas were being widely the navaja folder and maybe you will offered in street markets in novelty Spanish navaja knives hold a special see it on my table someday. If you have lengths as short as three inch and as place in my esteem because they remind navajas too, I’d love to see them. long as three feet. Navajas with blades me of the good times I spent living over eight inches were mostly oversized there. The tradition lives on today with Stay sharp! showpieces and were made to display Spain producing navajas regularly in www.KellyLaneKnives.com the abilities of the knifemaker, not for traditional and modern versions. Even actual use. I believe my oldest, largest Spyderco and Kershaw (to mention navaja was built for that purpose. only two) have offered their versions of

to clamp the Knife Handles scale (one side Made Easy Part 1 at a time) to the Dan Westlind knife. I like to use two clamps I still see knifemakers struggling when so that the scale it comes to installing handles. I watch does not move. Forged in Fire from time to time and Make sure that cannot believe how badly some of the the scale is tight contestants fail miserably when it comes up against the to putting handles on their blades. I have bolster if there a simple but effective way to install knife are bolsters scales, and I will share that with you. on the knife. I If I am adding liner material to my place the blade scales, I wash the scales and the liner with the scale material with acetone to remove any clamped to it on oils or contaminants. I have a piece of top of a couple granite countertop which is nice and flat 1-2-3 machinist worked well with soft handle materials. on my work bench. I place a piece of blocks. These can be found on eBay and Try peening a pin in some of the synthetic wax paper on top of it. I place the liner shop around. You do not need the super materials, or mammoth tooth or some of material on the wax paper and spray the precision blocks; the cheaper ones work the mammoth ivory crosscuts and see liner with super glue accelerator and let just as well. You can also use hard wood what happens. I like a slight press fit, the accelerator evaporate. I then apply or micarta or whatever else, as long as meaning just hand pressure to push the the super glue to the side of the scale they are the same height. They need pin through. Some or most pin material I want the liner on and firmly stick the to be tall enough so the bottom of the is slightly larger than nominal, meaning scale(s) to the liner. Hand pressure is all locking pliers have clearance, see the 1/4" pin stock is slightly larger than the that is needed, no clamps are necessary. photo. Support the scale on both ends on decimal .250, and it will not go through a The accelerator sets the glue up very top of the blocks. This makes sure the 1/4” drilled hole. In this case, I use a letter quickly. I always wear disposable gloves drill will be perpendicular to the scale ‘F’ drill bit which measures .257. If I am when I do this, so I do not get super when you drill. Line the hole in the tang using 3/16” pin stock, I use a number 12 glue all over my fingers. I cut the liner with the drill bit and drill, being careful bit which measures .189 or sometimes a material slightly larger than the scale and not to drill all the way through, so you number 11 bit at .191, depending on how trim the excess off after the glue sets up. do not encounter any chipping out when large the pin stock is. When I assemble Once this is done, the scales are ready to the drill breaks through. I drill about half the scales to the blade, I wash the tang drill to fit the knife. Another habit I have way through, remove the scale from the and the inside of the scale with acetone, is that I mark my scales with an ‘L’ or ‘R’ blade, lay the scale on a piece of hard, apply a liberal amount of the medium and arrows showing front and up. This scrap wood and finish drilling. There are viscosity super glue, line the scales up, way you do not end up with two right other ways to do this, but I like doing apply thin super glue to the pin stock hand scales. it this way. Once I do one side, I flip and push the pins through. The thinner the blade over, attach the other scale super glue sets up faster than the thicker You are going to use the knife tang as a and drill it out using the same method. glue so be sure you get the pins oriented drill guide. The holes in the tang need Using this method, my scales always if you are using mosaic pins. I apply a to be the same size as the pin stock you line up; and the pins, rivets or whatever couple clamps to hold the scales tight to are going to use. If you are going to use I am using fit right up. Do not use the the tang but not so tight that you squeeze a 3/16” drill and the holes in the tang first scale you drilled as a guide to drill all the glue out. After the pins are in, I are 1/4," you are not going to be lined the other scale. One more thing I do is I put a couple drops of thin glue around up when you go to put the scales on the always trace around the tang with a pen the ends to help seal the pin to the handle knife. In this case, I would take a 1/4” bit or pencil before I pop the locking pliers material. I have not used two part epoxy and just spot the hole into the scale. This loose. This gives me a guide to use to for attaching my scales in several years. will help center the 3/16” bit to finish the trim the excess material away before I The super glues work great and do not hole. You should already have the holes attach the handles to the blade. weaken with heat, as much as epoxy. I drilled in the tang of the knife blade at this hope this helps simplify handle scale point. One thing about this procedure is A few things I want to point out are drill installation. In Part 2 of my tutorial, I that the scales need to be flat so the holes bit sizes, pin fits and attaching the scales will show how to drill and install handles you drill are perpendicular. I use those to the tang. I never peen any pin. I feel that are not flat. small locking pliers with the swivel pads this is an old, antiquated procedure that August 2021 Cutlery Of The A. M. Holter Hardware Co. Martin Drivdahl A couple of years ago, a friend of mine loaned me a book contained in its original protective packaging. As I removed the book from its sliding cardboard container, I discovered it was a mint copy of a wholesale hardware catalog printed for the A. M. Holter Hardware Co. of Helena, Montana. At the bottom of the book is printed General Catalogue No. 27. In speaking to folks at the Montana Historical Museum, I was told that the No. 27 equates to the year 1927. That year date seems correct by the catalog’s listing of auto parts for cars produced up to, but not after, 1927. Naturally, my curiosity was sparked; so I immediately sought out the index to find what the catalog showed in pocket cutlery. It turned out pages 534 through 542 (9 pages) portrayed what was offered. All pocketknives listed (71 knife models in total) were made by Ulster Knife Company. I noted that 1927 was during the era when Ulster was under the management of Dwight Divine’s son and still employing Sheffield hand methods for making knives; but the company was also losing money. One of the photos contained herein is a shot of the catalog cover, another shows pocketknives from pages 536 and 537 of the catalog. A Ideal in various lengths, the Woodcraft, M. Holter became a prominent Montana separate photo is included which shows the folding safety knife and the Dall capitalist and entrepreneur. Starting Ulster’s Dwight Divine Official four DeWeese models. with a single sawmill near Virginia City, bladed Boy Scout Knives, No. 474881.5 In hopes that readers will find it of Holter built a business empire in the (BSA #1503) at 3-3/8" long, and No. lumber, hardware, mining, and ranching 475531.5 (BSA #1502) at 3-5/8" long. interest to learn about the history of Anton M. Holter and the A. M. Holter industries, and became known for his The photo gives the wholesale prices for business integrity and acumen.” these two knives at $28.00 per dozen for Hardware Company, I will herein the smaller scout knife and $25.50 per endeavor to compose a brief outline Holter reached the wild and largely dozen for the larger one. In 1927 that using information given in a detailed lawless mining town of Virginia City, would not have been considered cheap, article published in the Winter 2020 issue Montana, on December 1, 1863, and and I suspect the quality at that time was of Montana, the Magazine of Western was nearly killed (an overcharged ball well worth the price. History. The article titled “First Citizen grazed his scalp) shortly thereafter of Montana the Business and Civic in an attempted robbery by two road Holter’s General Catalogue No. 27 Legacy of Anton Holter” was written by agents. The two holdup men and a also contains a single page list of John C. Boe. A quote taken directly from third accomplice were hanged shortly hunting knives available. The list is this article states, “After emigrating Continued on page 7 exclusively Marbles knives offering the from his native Norway in 1854, Anton Cutlery continued from page 6 Reporting from “Hootin’ Holler,” the clutter the rolling eastern foothills of the thereafter at the hands of the local growing community of Birdseye, with Continental Divide. Vigilantes. After this near disaster, Holter new homes popping up everywhere to and his partner completed building a water powered sawmill and sold lumber at a premium price to gold miners in Virginia City. This was followed by a number of logging operations, commercial sawmills and finished lumber sales outlets that fed the growing cities of Helena, Butte and Great Falls. The A. M. Holter Hardware Co. was established in 1867 and incorporated in 1887. In 1891 an advertisement claimed the company to be the largest machinery and hardware depot in the West. In 1927, the hardware company was owned and managed by Anton’s oldest son, Norman M. Holter, who was born in 1868. Of the several large hardware businesses in Helena and Butte, the A. M. Holter Hardware Company outlasted them all continuing in operation until 1958 when the company was sold.

August 2021 Weapons ibdennis It always grinds me that when a discussion of firearms arises, the word “weapon” is used and becomes the focus of terminology. Weapon is a hostile term and has a negative connotation and creates a negative reaction. Anything that can be harmful to another human being

At a knife show you almost never realization that I gave up the hand of hear the word weapon used in friendship and substituted my greeting conversations about knives. Knives with a fist bump. It was rough going can be a weapon. The popular “baseball can be used solely as weapons, but at first with the quizzical faces of my bat” is a go to weapon. Next time when it the more informed refer to them as customers and the questions. After an is your turn up to bat, choose a weapon. knives not weapons. Not so much at a explanation, almost all agreed with my Also our kitchen is loaded with weapons gun show or at a shooting range. I hear reasoning. Humorously, I was called a with our array of kitchen knives. Lizzy the term weapon used frequently and germ-a-phobe, and many would bump Borden took an axe and gave her Mother can imagine one of our anti-gunner and then retreat like an exploding hand 40 whacks. She did not use a weapon but observers tactlessly making an ugly grenade. It was six years ago that I instead used an axe. face and accusing those interested in adopted this and stuck to it during Definition of the word weapon: this hobby as killers. It is my intent knife and gun shows in addition to at to sanitize the words referring to our work. Going from multiple sickness An instrument of attack or defense in interests in things that go bang and call days six years ago to nothing now combat. them firearms. Even the term gun is does prove a point. During the 2020 a sanitizing word. We who enjoy the pandemic I have graduated to elbow recreational use and aspects of knives bumps, namaste, oriental bows and and firearms should be careful of our hand gestures to the heart. All of which language. are germ free. Since I am on a rant about words and Use of the right terminology and actions, let me talk about greeting. the use of the right greeting makes a In my role as a salesman I shook a difference. bazillion hands on a daily basis. After all, that is what The club that is now mostly used for golf salesmen do. was once a common weapon. After recovering An instrument or other means of harming from yet another or exerting control over another. cold or flu, I Money is the main weapon of modern decided that the oligarchs. handshake was transferring bad A means of persuading or arguing. bugs to me and A weapon, arm or armament is any was infecting me implement or device that can be used as well; I was also with intent to inflict damage or harm. a transfer station Weapons are used to increase the efficacy to infect others. and efficiency of activities. It was with this

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For those that cannot find a safety Pea Knife, may I offer the following:

I eat my peas with honey

I’ve done so all my life

It makes my peas taste funny but it keeps them on my knife!

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