Help ID this corn knife

Anybody know who made this? Brand name?

Painted blue......with what looks like a model CK70 stamped into wood handle

Well, If the handle was Blue we'd know who it belonged to.

I believe that every corn knife I used back about 60-75 years ago was home made! (Old saw blades.)

(quoted from post at 05:25:10 09/28/19) I believe that every corn knife I used back about 60-75 years ago was home made! (Old saw blades.)

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Back in the 60's, early 70's BR (before Roundup), kids in our ara were tasked with walking the soybean fields to hand cut the weeds that broadleaf herbicide products like Amiben or Lorox etc, missed. The three tools commonly used were common garden hoes, weed hooks, and corn knives. Some of what we called "corn knives" resembled the more common hook nosed machete. But all of them were store bought.

My favorite was a corn knife exactly like that shown in the photo, and back then, they were sold in the hardware stores. Mine came from a True Value store and was a True Temper. Bought it myself at around age 16, then sanded down the rough edges that formed blisters on my hand.

The one shown in the photo is also store bought, as it has that model number stamped into the handle, but does not have an etching or another other mark on the blade as my True Temper did. This one has decent steel and takes and holds and edge. There is a similar looking True Temper knife still being sold, but is made in China and does not have the same feel or balance, and worse, is made of some kind of cheap, soft steel that will not take and edge and will not cut hot butter. I have one and it just bounces off a big tough weed, whereas this old knife will cut it.

Walking the soybean fields wasn't easy work and I didn't care much for it, but it came with a silver lining. The crews most folks hired were teenage girls of my age........sometimes 6 or 8 of them.......and in addition to cutting in the fields alongside of them.......(them wearing swimsuit tops to help with the tans), at age 16, I was also tasked with driving to town to pick them all up and then later around noon......take them all home. That was like being handed the keys to the city!

To me that would be some type of Machete. This is the Corn knife me and my dad
would use to open the first round of a corn field. You would reach down and
pull upwards. That thing would cut right through a stalk slick as can be. Four
rows wide and we would hand feed it into the chopper. This is the original
knife hanging on my kitchen wall alog with a bale hook, old mercury
thermometer, grain scoop, two man saw, and some other farm odds and ends. Over
in the corner there is an original calf feeding pail.