Vintage/RARE Western Cutlery W36 Fixed Blade Hunting Knife WithOriginal Sheath

Knife is in good preowned unused condition - see pics. Knife comes with original paperwork - leather sheath - and original beat up box. Knife making companies were under tremendous pressure at this time from overseas competition.

Camillus went bankrupt in February of 2007, taking the name of Western knives with them. The Camillus version of the L66, (now W36) is identifiable by an aluminum finger guard replacing the brass of earlier versions. Additionally, the aluminum butt pommel was no longer pinned to the single tang. Instead, the end of the tang was round in cross section and threaded to accept a brass nut which is visible on the bottom of the saddle horn pommel.

During production, the tang end and brass nut were ground down flush as part of the final shaping of the aluminum pommel. Knife is 10" OAL, 5.5" blade in great unused condition.

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