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10-04-2006, 03:09 PM
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Not a bad testimonial!
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10-04-2006, 04:51 PM
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Ron,
I do not know this guy's name, but i am sure I have seen him at gun & knife shows in Melbourne, Fl. for years. I'm sure he speaks from where he came, if ya' know what I mean. Cool "user" Randall. Best, Capt. Chris Stanaback __________________ Captain Chris Stanaback
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10-05-2006, 12:57 AM
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Don't you all just hate those guys who talk about buying a Model 14 back when they were in the army in the 1970s?
jc
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10-05-2006, 11:00 AM
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Steve,
Big deal!!! What's so special about a plugged hole, old brown micarta, low S, model 14 from the 60's...... I guess next you'll tell us it's in a split back Johnson or something.....  Seriously Steve..... you have some great old knives. JC, How about a posting a picture of your humpback 14....... 
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10-06-2006, 09:19 AM
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The lower knife is my Model 14 Solingen built in summer of 1977. On the top in the PIC is my Model 15 Solingen which is probably from a few years later and may be one of the earliest BP handles on a Model 15 and one of the latest Solingen 15s.
 Two PICs of the Model 14   This is the Model 15. Notice that it does not have the word stainless like the Model 14.  Model 14 again.  Model 15 blade. Both Solingen Models have the prominent hump. Does anyone wonder why Solingen 14s and 15s had the hump that had been dropped several years before on the Randall forged blades? 
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10-06-2006, 10:06 AM
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Steve / Jeff: Great knives, Guys! It's one thing to own a knife from those eras you picked up recently. It's quite another thing to have bought it from the shop back in those days, used it and still have it. You belong to a very elite club.
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10-06-2006, 11:42 AM
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Jeff,
Ditto what Ron said, you and Steve are in a pretty small group of justifiably proud guys, good on ya! As to your question, IIRC, the last Solingen blade delivery to RMK was in early '73, but not much had changed with the overall blade grind since the mid 1960's ('64/'65)...so, your knives were basically made from old blade stock. I believe the Model 15 blade is actually older, although the knife itself is newer... On a personal level, I just wanted to say thanks for posting the pics. I had long assumed that shipments of RMK's with Solingen blades had ended by 1978, not starting up again until the modified 'Solingen Fighter' deliveries of the late 1980's & early 1990's... Most of us know that the 'Border Patrol' knives conceived of in 1978 were built between 1979 and 1981; and Tom Clinton once told me that he made up some special Model #15's for a USAF unit in 1982. IIRC, Tom believed those Model #15's were some of the first non-USBP knives made up with the new Border Patrol (BP) handle style... That leads me to agree with your assessment, that your Model #15 was likely one of the first BP handled knives that wasn't either USBP or USAF marked. It also pushes out the Solingen Blade use dates into the early 1980's...(erase, erase, scribble, scribble...) Thanks, Shel Last edited by Melvin-Purvis; 10-06-2006 at 06:15 PM. Reason: cuz eye cain't 'pell
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#9
10-06-2006, 05:50 PM
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Superb knives, Jeff! Real Randall history you have there.
I didn't know that you bought these straight from the shop. Makes them even more terrific. Cheers!  David __________________ It takes less effort to smile  than to frown  !
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10-09-2006, 12:02 PM
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Moose,
...I got the Model 15 on Ebay in 2004. jc
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