TL-29 Examination #2

The family operated Hollub Conglomeration of affiliates is unique indeed. 

 Tracing their building trades empire to the 1920's then as an importer of Canadian timber. 

 Marvin Hollub rebuffed buyout offers from large building corporations.  

The Old Chicago & Northwestern Union Pacific Depot of Chicago's West Loop was a junction of prosperity. 

 After incorporation (1954) this depot was purchased from the manager Chauncey Ellwood and renovated to be a warehouse for Hollub Heating & Meters/Mid-Lakes Distribution, Inc. run by Michael Hollub. 

 The depot needed a bit of work after it was abandoned in 1942.  Currently has a parent company of International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation (Cincinnati).  

The TL-29 Electrician pocketknife shown above is a post WWII contract made by Camillus in the 1960's.  Look closely the pin that holds the bale also holds the liners something other makers do not.

TL-29 with Hawkbill main blade

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Lifetime warranty until five years after being dicontinued means this Gardner Bender live to 2018.  Hailing from Glendale, Wisconsin is a TL-29 that the U.S. military would give the firing squad to if ever issued.

This photo is of a brand new Sentinel Capital Partners (Actuant Co.) offshore unmarked chinese disaster of a TL-29.  Who or what is to blame?

This be CEO (1992-2013) Robert Arzbaecher.  

Nothing to laugh about folks because the package reads "brass liners" but they are not.  All we see is one brass pin.

Should keep to bending the "tube" instead.

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The machinery used to make this TL-29 dates back to the 1890's and are operated by a handful of local employees from Framingham, Massachusetts.  This is a currently discontinued item because the new owners are just learning about knifemaking.  See the "play" in the secondary blade's liner lock:

I do like that all the materials are sourced here in the USA. and Mark Furman is giving it his all since 2009.  Most think he is doomed though but have a try anyways.

The factory certainly big enough just need better employees from England and Germany like back in Mansfield factory along the Rumsford River (1862).

Actually at first glance I would swear that this TL-29 was made of cheap stuff.