Anyone ever heard of one? I've heard of coticules labeled "old Hickory" and "old rock", but not Old Hickory Hone.
Old Hickory Hone?
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Don't think this will help much, but I have a set of kitchen knives from the Ontario Knife Company, with hickory handles marked "Old Hickory." I do note that the label as shown above contains the word "razors" if that's any consolation.
kelbro
Alfred Spatchcock
I seem to remember a man-made Old Hickory hone that I owned a looooonnnnng time ago.
Slash McCoy
I freehand dog rockets
The only thing I know about Old Hickory is it was a brand of inexpensive carbon steel kitchen knives we used on shrimp boats when I was a kid, and we treated them with onion juice or ospho so they wouldn't rust so easily. They were fairly soft steel but would take a very keen edge with just a few laps on a fine carborundum stone. I never knew that they made or sold their own brand of hones.
Cool. I've seen that label before - can't remember where though..... I'll have to think on it.
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Same here, but I cant remember where for the life of me.
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Give me about 3 days and I’ll have a better example.
@Dcaddo, here is the thread from a couple of years ago. You posted in it. There is a picture of a similar label.
The tale from the German Hickory Hone
The tale from the German Hickory Hone
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Sure is. Thanks for that. Shows you how good my memory is. The one that I just bought also has some manganese spots like Ian’s. I will post pictures tomorrow
Old Hickory made a good pocket knife back in the day. Carbon steel blades, jigged bone handles, and good construction. Very old school knives without the need to look tacticool.
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“Can be used with water, oil or Leather.”
Sure looks like the same vein. Nice rock.
timwcic
"Look what I found"
Beautiful stone David, and love the label
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Who got it?
I figured it was you.
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I expected that one to break 300. That was dirt cheap for a 7x2
I've seen Old Hickory as its own line item on old coticule price lists, but I can't find the image of the old price list this moment.
Henk Bos does make a reference to Old Hickory in his Grinding and Honing Part 4 https://bosq.home.xs4all.nl/info 20m/grinding_and_honing_part_4_belgian_whetstones.pdf
Henk Bos does make a reference to Old Hickory in his Grinding and Honing Part 4 https://bosq.home.xs4all.nl/info 20m/grinding_and_honing_part_4_belgian_whetstones.pdf
