All About Pocket Knives

Time to take off the training wheels.

Mumbleypeg wrote:

jerryd6818 wrote:Yeah, we should probably have a "Frequently Asked Questions" forum.

What I've found that works without all that messin' around is to do a quote post, copy and paste the unposted contents of that into the new location and remove the

so it shows up like a regular post. Now back out of where you were quoting the post so that disappears. Hope that makes sense

Now you tell me!

Ken

Now THAT was funny...

Thanks!

great info! Is a PICKBONE handle really bone or plastic?

nativek wrote:great info! Is a PICKBONE handle really bone or plastic?

Bone.

Great to have links to all those videos in one place! Thanks

I have a Buck Creek congressman bobcat knife on the badge it has the deer antlers and says solingen. Does any one have any idea what it might be worth or what year it was made?

Welcome to AAPK. Glad to have you aboard.

I suggest you start a new thread here ---► viewforum.php?f=4 and ask your question there so it gets more exposure. AAPK is not an online appraisal service but occasionally there are folks who may be willing to opine on the value of a particular knife. Searching eBay's closed and sold auctions is the commonly suggested method of ascertaining the current value of individual knives. Good luck.

Edit: The Tips & Tricks forum located here ---► viewforum.php?f=98 is a good place to learn how to navigate AAPK and get things done on the forum.

I am new here to your AAPK Forum. I am hardly new to pocket knives though, because of the addiction to pocket knives for maybe 57 of my 66 years.

However, I am new to learning the terms and nomenclature of pocket knives. I am keen to study the histories and origins and all about the people who made them.

I can remember the glass side tables in what you blokes call the dime stores. I vividly recall the absolute cornucopia of pocket knives displayed there and trying to get my mum to stop at a table so I could look at the treasures displayed. Now, I have about a 100 or so different pocket knives of one sort or another, purchased new and second hand or received as gifts.

Reading various posts, so far, I reckon I have found "home" as far as pocket knives go. Your Forum appears to me as a very natural friendly and non-pretentious environment.No inane comments about what EDC I am carrying or descriptions of "tactical" anything.

I just love it, It is all fair dinkum stuff. Thumbs up boys I am glad I joined. You are very friendly and helpful people.

I just had a prostate surgery a week ago, so I and am looking at a therapy of pocket knife repair as a hobby to keep me out of strife.I have got all the relatives looking for damaged or non functional traditional pocket knives for cheap in the flea markets.

I am glad to find you blokes.

Oz

Oz, welcome to AAPK. Glad to have you aboard. "glass side tables" Is that an Aussie name for a display case?

Hi! Welcome to AAPK!

Welcome OZ!

jerryd6818 wrote:Oz, welcome to AAPK. Glad to have you aboard. "glass side tables" Is that an Aussie name for a display case?

Hi Jerry
Not an Aussie description-just mine, my way of describing the tables.

The entire top of the display table /s was divided up into shoebox-sized areas with the glass sides( think of glass louvre panels and attached by metal clips. Easy to stand next to and reach into for an adult not so much, for a small boy.

Each division was filled with the multiple samples of the many types of pocket knives that were on display.

They probably were, what was the cheap and nasty version -the mass produced - some junk if you will - of the day.

There were acetate sided knives, right through to metal sided scales, chromed or nickel sided ones and something like mother of pearl. All sizes too, right through from tiny ones to the larger models.
regards
Oz

Hello Everyone!

I'm new here. I have just came into a very large collection of Case XX Knifes "All of them were display models" left over from my family's hardware store business that existed from the 1960's to early 2000s

I've have been given the task of selling the knifes now that my grandfather passed away and the estate is being divided among the siblings.

I need information on the knifes I have so that I can list them to be sold and I'm not sure where the best place on this forum is to list pictures of the knifes that experts can tell me more information about them so that I can properly list them to be sold to collectors who will appreciate them.

I just don't want to give any potential buyers bad information.

My grandfather always told me that these Case XX knifes were special and that they were some of his favorite wares among everything that they sold at the store.

Anyhow, thanks for any information and input in advance.

I just want to be sure where I'm posting the information and pictures is the correct place on the forum seeing that I'm new here and all.
Thanks again!

opm_gmp wrote:Hello Everyone!

I'm new here. I have just came into a very large collection of Case XX Knifes "All of them were display models" left over from my family's hardware store business that existed from the 1960's to early 2000s

I've have been given the task of selling the knifes now that my grandfather passed away and the estate is being divided among the siblings.

I need information on the knifes I have so that I can list them to be sold and I'm not sure where the best place on this forum is to list pictures of the knifes that experts can tell me more information about them so that I can properly list them to be sold to collectors who will appreciate them.

I just don't want to give any potential buyers bad information.

My grandfather always told me that these Case XX knifes were special and that they were some of his favorite wares among everything that they sold at the store.

Anyhow, thanks for any information and input in advance.

I just want to be sure where I'm posting the information and pictures is the correct place on the forum seeing that I'm new here and all.
Thanks again!

Put them on Ebay one Sunday night with a start bid of 99 cent in a 7day auction. Ebay is the best guage of current market value out there . Make sure you take excellent in focus pictures of the knife up for auction. Show a close up of the tang stamp and views of the knife with blades open, front and back. Show an overhead shot of the blade well with blades open and closed. If you do all these things well, the market will tell you what the value of the knife is.

I agree with Greg's advice. If you have any specific questions about a particular knife (or all of them) post the pictures with your questions here in the Case Collectors forum viewforum.php?f=66. That is regularly checked by Case collectors here, who can likely provide any information you need.

eBay is the best place I know of to establish current value, whether you list the knives there to sell, or use eBay sold listings to research values.

Ken

There have been questions raised recently in various forums here about knife terminology (why is it called the "pile side"?, how is bone jigged and hafted?). Here's an old article (I think from the Case Collectors Club magazine) that explains much about the assembly processes, especially as they relate to bone handle covers, but also applies to other aspects. Also included are some tips on identifying a re-handled knife.

This article along with viewing the YouTube videos (see previous posts in this same thread) of the Case, GEC and other companies' factories will answer many questions and provide a good understanding of modern pocket knife manufacturing.

Ken

Ken, interesting article. Thanks for posting.

Nice educational video!

Good post and info!!

Great info! Picked up a few new terms in there. Thanks!

I am not exactly 'new' to pocketknives, having carried them since age 6. I still have that Imperial Barlow with imitation pearl scales. Later it was a Casexx junior stock knife which is still serving as my odd job knife in my desk drawer. For most of my teens I carried folding fisherman's knives, again by Imperial. I loved these knives, but the blades had a decided tendency to snap at the base. I went through three of them before I had to go to the heavy artillery, a Buck 110.

All of "my" childhood pocketknives were originally my Dad's. He had special favorites of his own. He had a G.I. stainless "Boy Scout Special" from WW II. It wasn't in his belongings when he passed, so perhaps he lost it? He still had his big Imperial 3-blade folder, which he used to fight for his life in an on-post mugging. He had a name for that knife which is unprintable here! He was a medic, stateside, working in a dispensary at a training base. On his way back to quarters he was waylaid by a razor-wielding thug. Dad parried the razor and found flesh with his blade. The mugger ran off. Dad pocketed the razor and hit for home!

When he got to the dispensary his mates were busy stitching up another soldier who had a nasty blade wound to his hand. It appeared as though a very sharp blade had penetrated the palm of the hand, then had been drawn forcefully through the flesh between the metacarpals and out between the middle and ring fingers. The hand had been laid open from near the base of the thumb to the fingers.

Next day Dad was making his morning rounds, emptying urinals, or whatever loathsome task it was. There lay the thug, wide awake and with a boxing glove of gause on his hand. The guy suddenly started to recognise Dad as the intended victim who had cut him up. Dad had the razor in his hand and pretended to pick it up from the floor. He held it out, asking, "Oh... did you drop this?" "N-n-no! It ain't mine!" I still have the razor, too!

I signed on here awhile back but haven't done much with the forum. I'll try to do better in future!
WHITEHAWK OUT

Whitehawk, welcome to AAPK. Glad to have you aboard.

I'm brand new both to this forum, and to traditionals. Funny thing is, I watched that video just yesterday, lol. At least I have a clue as to what people are talking about, but I'm still green as far as what is worth buying, what isn't, etc. I will buy what I'm attracted to, but it would be nice if what I buy would at least hold it's value over time, if not increase. Looking fotward to learning and growing more knowledgeable.

Timbo437 wrote:I'm brand new both to this forum, and to traditionals. Funny thing is, I watched that video just yesterday, lol. At least I have a clue as to what people are talking about, but I'm still green as far as what is worth buying, what isn't, etc. I will buy what I'm attracted to, but it would be nice if what I buy would at least hold it's value over time, if not increase. Looking fotward to learning and growing more knowledgeable.

Good on you, you will like it here. I do what you do, if i like it- i buy it. Depending on cost of course. I like Rough rider's, and they are affordable. But one thing i do know, i do not not collect knives to make money, very few hold their value and even less increase in value. They are like cars, unless rare and in good condition, they always decrease in value. The only one that may increase in value in my collection is a Charlie Campagna jigged bone lambsfoot that i am waiting on. But i bought it because i just liked it.