James Gang a'la Scagel

A lot of the Behrings' knives (father and son) show a Scagel influence.

Some time back I asked James and Crew to make up several knives with a blade patterned like a Scagel I own.

Thinking maybe some of you might enjoy seeing them, here they are. (Assuming the digital gods will let me, I will try to post the photos where they belong in the text.)

The blades are made from 5160 spring steel.

1. This knife has a brass guard, green Micarta, black, maroon, and brass spacers with an exceptional red sambar stag carver handle. It has a brown Mosher pouch sheath.


2. Brass guards, black, white, brass, maroon, and musk ox boss spacers with a musk ox horn carver handle. It has a black basket weave Mosher sheath.


3. Brass guard, black, maroon, ivory Micarta, aluminum, and brass spacers with a premium sambar stag carver. The Mosher sheath has correlated leather tones and cat tail tooling.


4. Brass guard, black, brass, maroon, and green Micarta spacers with my stag ground into a crow’s beak shape for an extremely comfortable grip. It has a pebble grain Mosher sheath.


5. Brass guard, black, white, brass, maroon, and musk ox boss spacers with a desert ironwood crow’s beak design grip. The Mosher high-ride sheath has decorative fern tooling.

[Looks like the files got inserted at the end, but the images are in correct order with the descriptions. By the way, I think these images were done by Grant or James and sent to me via email when the knives were finished.]

Larry

I wanna' see the Scagel too!
Capt. Chris

Jim senior collection. All but the matching hatchet and knife have the retired "Treeman" logo and all have Mosher sheaths.
Bout as Scagel as they get.

A few more from Montana.

There's some Scagel influence in some of these blades. In any case they don't suck.

But hey Larry, I got caught up snapping some pics and forgot to thank you for the thread and congratulate you on your own super lineup.

Ask that ye might receive:

Larry

Congratulations on having such a treasure.

X2

Larry,
If I can indulge to resize without edits your original image. Easier to view. Thanks for the grace.
A close up shot of the stamp would be the bomb.

Great knife..blurry or not!
Best, Capt. Chris

Working on that but I agree.

Yeah, I could only find this small image on this computer. The knife is in storage "way up yonder," so I can't get a close-up of the markings. But I did find and image that could be sized down.

This was one of Scagel's VL&A knives, and carries that as part of the stamping.

Interesting to note that he did not polish out the grind marks and the heat treat darkening on the spine!

Also, as Scagel collectors know, it is seldom that his knives come with the original leather.

Jim Lucie authenticated this knife first by letter, including congratulating me on the sheath. Then later in person, exclaiming just how lucky to have the sheath.

He said early on that he wanted to put the knife in his book, but forgot about me until he was having his knives photographed at the Blade Show, I learned about it, and he apologized.

To go a step further, I was lucky enough to buy a Scagel handmade fishing rod and reel, which Jim knew about but had never seen. I don't think he knew what had become of it until I mentioned it during a conversation, and he said he would have like to put it in the book--but he did not remember that I had it.

Very nice Larry.
Walker

What treasures Larry. Beautiful Rod & reel. Thanks so much for posting your pictures.

There are a bunch of awesome knives in this thread. Thanks guys for posting.

Here's a few more from Mike Malosh an understudy of Jim Behring Sr so his knives tie into this thread. Mike does excellent work. I spoke with him about the hatchet. The head was an old Marbles survivor that he repurposed. There's no stamp unfortunately. I believe he can also be found under Chaser knives.

Warren--

Nice!

And you introduced us to another craftsman.

Larry

Mike has been around for years and has a following. He's just not as widely known as both Behring's. He claims that he has a table at Blade but do not recall his table. I will say if you call him he will return the call and talk knife business. Nice guy, straight up.