Cleaver Fever

[Genghis_F]

A Foster Bros 1180 circa 1950, and Dunlap Cleaver unknown age

Dunlap was pretty rough so couldn’t preserve patina. New scales and rivets

 

[Ericfg]

Great work! Just replied to your post over on reddit. Seems like you and I are doing very similar things.

 

[Desert Rat]

Nice work. Fulton and Dunlap were both Sears brands.

"The Dunlap brand first appeared in the spring 1937 catalog, for hand tools"
http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=269

 

[Genghis_F]

Nice work. Fulton and Dunlap were both Sears brands.

"The Dunlap brand first appeared in the spring 1937 catalog, for hand tools"
http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=269

Thanks for the history
Love the back story
I’d learned that sears had 3 lines of cutlery In descending order of quality
Craftsmen/sta-sharp
Dunlap- named after their hardware buyer Thomas or Dunlap Hardware founder Samuel Dunlap
Kwik-cut

Camilius made knives for them under the craftsmen brand

Cleavers aren’t very useful but they’re fun to restore