Brown jigged delrin canoe?

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Brown jigged delrin canoe?

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Sorry this may be a very quick and boring post...but...

I'm wondering if Case ever made a 62131 canoe with brown jigged delrin scales. I've never seen one (doesn't mean much) and thought they pretty much did a delrin version of all their patterns in the 70s and 80s. Just curious because I'm a big fan of the delrin.

Thanks for any info and hope everyone is having a good summer.

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Yes they did. Catalog number 70 (issued in 1968) shows 62131 with brown jigged Delrin. Sorry I don’t have one or I’d post a picture. This will make your day - according to knifedb.com they were made both with and without the Indian-in-a-canoe etch. So you’ll need to find one of each. Happy hunting! ::sotb::

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Mumbleypeg wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 2:05 am Yes they did. Catalog number 70 (issued in 1968) shows 62131 with brown jigged Delrin. Sorry I don’t have one or I’d post a picture. This will make your day - according to knifedb.com they were made both with and without the Indian-in-a-canoe etch. So you’ll need to find one of each. Happy hunting! ::sotb::

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And the band played "Who'd ah thunk it? " ::dang:: I had no idea the canoe was ever made with delrin handles.
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philco wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 4:47 am
Mumbleypeg wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 2:05 am Yes they did. Catalog number 70 (issued in 1968) shows 62131 with brown jigged Delrin. Sorry I don’t have one or I’d post a picture. This will make your day - according to knifedb.com they were made both with and without the Indian-in-a-canoe etch. So you’ll need to find one of each. Happy hunting! ::sotb::

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And the band played "Who'd ah thunk it? " ::dang:: I had no idea the canoe was ever made with delrin handles.

Me neither. Are they on the rare side? ::shrug:: I think a certain Delrin Case Muskrat has a higher collector value because it's rare.
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Thanks Ken...hard to do but I was going to try and keep my hunting down a notch or two these days but I keep stumbling across pretty good deals on some variations I don't have so you never know....glad to know one might be out there for me.

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The canoe is one of two Case patterns that I believe were never made with Delrin handles. The other being the 6445R.

At least, I personally have never seen either of these patterns with Delrin handles. And I have been at this since 1973, the year Case started using a lot of Delrin on patterns that were normally made in bone, due to shortages of bone.

Ken, not sure what you mean by "shown in the catalog"...Delrin was not even mentioned in that catalog, as it had only at that point been used on some 048 patterns, no others.

And even in the next three catalogs that were issued - in 1974, 1977, and 1980 - they did not call out any specific patterns as being made in Delrin, only that any knife with a "6" could be bone, Delrin, or Pakkawood.

That said, if anyone has a photo of a Case 62131 canoe with Delrin handles, i would love to see it.
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Steve, the source for that information is knifedb.com which was referenced in my post. Like I said I don’t have one myself. ::shrug::
1973 62131Knife ID: 521
Shown in catalog number 70 used from March 1968 to May 1974. Transition year for the canoe etch. The 1973's found both with and without the canoe etch.
Handle: Brown Delrin (Jigged)
That’s the only Delrin version of the 62131 shown on knifedb, the rest are all jigged bone. It’s possible the site is in error. I’ve found it to be a reliable resource especially for 1970 - 2010 Case pocket knives. I’ll send David a note and ask him about the listing and let y’all know what he says.

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I emailed the site owner at knifedb.com regarding this discussion. He replied this morning, saying his notes on the knife referenced on the site are from 2013. His source said the reference knife “handles look like Delrin” but “the pictures provided were dark”.
He went on to say he respects Steve Pfeiffer’s opinion. “I suspect he is correct and I will remove the knife. I want to thank you for questioning this listing for me. With this kind of feedback I can continue to improve my site. Thanks again, David”

So there you have it. Based on this evidence the Case 62131 Canoe was never made with Delrin covers. Thanks Steve for clearing up the waters! ::handshake::

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Mumbleypeg wrote: Wed Jul 21, 2021 4:51 pm I emailed the site owner at knifedb.com regarding this discussion. He replied this morning, saying his notes on the knife referenced on the site are from 2013. His source said the reference knife “handles look like Delrin” but “the pictures provided were dark”.
He went on to say he respects Steve Pfeiffer’s opinion. “I suspect he is correct and I will remove the knife. I want to thank you for questioning this listing for me. With this kind of feedback I can continue to improve my site. Thanks again, David”

So there you have it. Based on this evidence the Case 62131 Canoe was never made with Delrin covers. Thanks Steve for clearing up the waters! ::handshake::

Ken
Thanks for investigating - I may be wrong, and they may exist.

Would love to have a pic of one if it does exist, then I will know.
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Thanks everybody for a great discussion...i will believe in its existence and keep looking around...will be fun...call it the Bigfoot canoe...turns out this was not a boring post.

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