Number and Letters of Case Handle Material

1	walnut		B	waterfall
2	black composition (slick black)		BM	brown mottled
3	yellow composition		GM	green mottled
4	white composition		GS	goldstone celluloid
5	genuine stag, second-cut stag, red stag		HA	high art
6	bone, green bone, red bone, delrin, laminated wood, rough black Rogers bone		IV	ivory
7	tortoise, imitation tortoise, curly maple (1970s)		P	variety of celluloid colors
8	genuine pearl		R	candy stripe or glitter stripe
9	imitation pearl (cracked ice)		RM	red mottled or Christmas tree
A	Appaloosa		SG	smooth green bone
			SR	smooth rose bone
			SS	stainless steel
			W	wire

Handle Materials and Descriptions

Appaloosa: brown and light colored spots (smooth bone)
Black Bone: smooth bone dyed black
Birdseye: not a handle material, but refers to large rivets on handle
Bone: shin bone of cattle
Bone Stag: same as bone with different jigging
Brass: brass metal
Brown Bone: dyed bone
Buffalo Horn: can be horn from any animal
Burnt Orange: brownish orange delrin
Buttermilk: two-color cream celluloid
Candy Stripe: red-and-white stripe celluloid
Celluloid: man-made material (translucent appearance)
Christmas Tree: celluloid of mingled red, green, and black
Cocobolo: hard wood
Composition: man-made material, dull (solid appearance)
Cracked Ice: off-color white (appearance of frosted window)
Delrin: man-made plastic, petro base
Ebony: ebony wood
Engine-Turned Silver: metal with uniform knurl lines
Genuine Pearl: mother-of-pearl shell
Genuine Stag: antlers of deer
Gold: self-explanatory, 14K, 12K, 10K, and plated
Goldstone: gold glitter celluloid
Green Bone: bone dyed shades of green
High Art: photos under clear celluloid
Horn: horn from various animals
Imitation Ivory: composition resembling ivory
Imitation Onyx: yellowish marble appearance
Imitation Pearl: man-made white composition
Ivory: animal tusk
Jigged Bone: machine-notched bone
Laminated Wood: layers of wood pressed together
Marine Pearl: imitation pearl
Mother-of-Pearl: same as genuine pearl
Mottled: mingled colors
Multi-Color: many colors in stripes or mingled, composition
Nickel Silver: self-explanatory, also known as German silver
Pakkawood: man-made, pressed-wood appearance
Peachseed: jigging on bone appears pitted like a peach seed
Pyralin: man-made, petro base such as celluloids
Pyremite: same as pyralin
Red Bone: bone dyed various shades of red
Red Stag: stag dyed various shades of red
Redwood: wood from redwood tree
Rogers Bone: bone processed by the Rogers Co.; dark to brilliant red, also green, brown; heavier than most bones
Early Rogers: brown tan or yellow color
Late Rogers: reddish brown to bright red
Rough Black: man-made plastic “PLASTAG”1940
Saw Cut: bone or composition; has been sawn and left marks
Scales: anything used as handle materials
Second-Cut Stag: pieces of stag with little or no character or with grooves that have been specially jigged and dyed to give the material a stronger stag appearance
Slick Black: man-made composition
Smoked Pearl: dark bluish-gray in either genuine pearl or imitation pearl
Smooth Bone: self-explanatory
Stag: same as genuine stag
Staglon: imitation stag
Stained Bone: dyed bone
Stainless Steel: self-explanatory
Sterling Silver: self-explanatory
Tortoise: actual tortoise shell; illegal to use now
Tortoise (celluloid): imitation of actual tortoise shell
Walnut: wood of walnut tree
Waterfall: translucent material that resembles a waterfall as knife is rotated
Winterbottom Bone: bone processed by Winterbottom Co.
Wire: knife frames made from #9 wire
Wood: various woods, such as walnut, ebony, redwood, maple, etc.

Case Blade Types & Common Abbreviations

Miscellaneous Abbreviations

Definitions

Bail (shackle): a metal ring attached to the bolster so the knife can be placed on a key ring or tied to a belt.
Drilled: a hole drilled in bolster in order to put a lanyard through.
Jigging: machine notching
Lanyard: cord or line (usually braided)
Pull: thumbnail groove on blade for opening (regular pull or long pull)
Rockwell Hardness Test: an analysis perFormed by pressing a diamond cone into metal; the deeper the penetration, the softer the metal.
Scale: another term for man-made handle materials.
Serrated: saw-toothed edge
Shackle: see bail
Shadow: no bolsters
Springer: spring operated (switchblade)
Zipper: a switchblade with square release button set into handle.

Pattern Names

Baby Copperhead Banana Bark Loosener Barlow Bartender Birdseye (large rivets on handles) Boss Bowtie Budding Knife Buffalo Bulldog Butterbean Canoe Carpenter whittier Cattle Cheetah Cigar Citrus: Melon Tester Citrus Peeler Coke Bottle (small, medium, and large) Congress Copperhead (small and large) Cotton sampler Daddy Barlow Doctor's (phys.) Dogleg Jack Dog Groomer Easy Opener Electrician's Knife Elephant's Toe (also sunfish or rope knife)

Equal End Fish Scaler Fisherman's Knife Fishtail Florist's Knife Folding Hunter Grafting Greenskeeper's Knife Gunboat Gunstock Half Hawkbill Half Whittier Hammerhead Hawkbill Hobo Humpback Jack Leg Lineman's Knife Lobster Maize Mako Melon Tester Moose Muskrat Navy Office One-Arm Man Peanut Press Button: Switchblade Pruner Rigger's Knife

Rope Scout Seahorse Whittier Senator Serpentine Shark's Tooth Shroud Cutter (paratrooper's) Sidewinder Sleeveboard Sod Buster Sowbelly Stabber Stockman Sunfish (also elephant toe, toenail) Swell Center Swell-End Jack Teardrop Texas Jack Texas Toothpick Timberscribe Toledo Scale Toothpick Trapper Tuxedo Utility-Camp or Scout Vietnam Whaler Wharncliffe Whittier (master blade folds between two other blades)