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This is(sort of) a knife test. please don't take it too seriously.
WHAT DO YOU SEE WRONG WITH THIS KNIFE???
Read it carefully and let me know.

replaced pins, as well as the frame and handles don't look like a case. back springs are corroded. clip blade possibly reshaped.
no shield

CCBill wrote:This is(sort of) a knife test. please don't take it too seriously.
WHAT DO YOU SEE WRONG WITH THIS KNIFE???
Read it carefully and let me know.

A more challenging question would have been What do you see that may be right with this knife? I'm still looking s-k

Ok here I go.

I am looking at my 80161 trpper yellow.
Whitch this is not but the blades do NOT even match along with every part of this knife.
I am going to say every thing is WRONG.

I know you wanted it to be a ONE of a KIND.

Hands on face running from the computer screaming "make it go away"

SK, I hope this isn't a common knife in the UK? If so, your stealing all of our American VINTAGE knives.

Assuming the Spey blade is open all the way... yeah the spring does not snap back in?
Obviously there is nothing right about the knife, I don't know why anyone would try t counterfeit a Chinese knife (j/K)

hey cc, where did this "case knife" come from?

Something tells me that ya'll don't like my knife(LOL)
Keep those cards and letters coming. I'll come clean in a day or two.
...CCBill...

It sure doesn't look like a Case to me. Besides everything else, it looks too thick. Looks like Pakistan or China.

CarlM wrote:It sure doesn't look like a Case to me. Besides everything else, it looks too thick. Looks like Pakistan or China.

Yeah, it looks like they put a couple of Case blades into a foreign handle.

pa knives wrote:Hands on face running from the computer screaming "make it go away"

SK, I hope this isn't a common knife in the UK? If so, your stealing all of our American VINTAGE knives.

Good morning everyone . Well funny you should mention that PA . Here are two 'Case' knives . Everyone please read the knives carefully and provide us with your analysis. If this doesn't send you running from your computer and give you nightmares, then I don't know what will Looking forward to your analyses. By the way Bill, your trapper knife is starting to grow on me a little. If you ever want to let it go, please let me know s-k

My, my S/K.....

Those certainly are...er...ah...well they just are, you know.

Are those possibly cobbler's nails in the pivot area?

The top one looks like Brother of Pearl maybe...Not sure. However, the second ah, knife....MUST be SandBar stag.

Thanks for sharing,


bILl (my eyes...my eyes )

Sofar the score is

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WOW, sk!
Those are beauties ! Looks like they were made by the same people.
Thanks for the offer to buy my trapper, but I have really taking a liking to it. I might consider buying yours, though, if you think you can part with them? They belong together.
I just can't believe that you're the only one that has said anything positive about them.
Here's a pic of the back handle.
...CCBill...

Thanks Bill. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder . This is like that old Star Trek epsidode where Mr. Spock looked directly at the alien ambassador (can't remeber the exact name) without proper eye protection and subsequently went blind. Only his superior Vulcan mind and second layer of eye lid saved him from permanent blindness when gazing into the face of pure ugliness. Do not look directly at them Like viewing an eclipse, one must take maximum precautions to protect both one's sight and sanity. I recommend welding goggles. Beam me up Scotty s-k

Hi sk...
Do you have any more pics of your knives? Maybe one of the back handle? I'm really interested in them.
Thanks.
...CCBill...

Hi Bill, thanks for your interest in the 'Case' knives . I'm not a case collector so can you tell me the alleged name/model nos of these based on the photo if possible. It is already evening here so I will try to post some more pics tomorrow morning. That will give everyone's eyes an opportunity to recover a little. s-k

Good morning everyone. Here is a photo of the other side of the two 'Case' knives. If you haven't already made-up your mind, have a go at 'reading' these. It is not a pretty story. Don't forget your safety gogles s-k

These appear to be "lunch box" knives.....removed from production prior to final finishing. All appear to me to be genuine CASE knives.

Looks like TWO more one of a kind.
If the maker stoled this would he or she not take a finished one?
Or
Do you think the max number was finished and this was just left over?

justold52 wrote:Looks like TWO more one of a kind.
If the maker stoled this would he or she not take a finished one?
Or
Do you think the max number was finished and this was just left over?

I have no idea...but its also possible that if a defect was noted in the knife during production, it could ahve been removed from the production line prior to final hafting and finishing.

S/K,

Actually, the stag is nice enough on the bottom one.....too many pins in the covers of the smaller one for my taste. I suspect knifeaholic is correct, those may have just walked out before makeup had a chance to spruce them up right properly. What patterns are those?

Bill

El Lobo wrote:S/K,

Actually, the stag is nice enough on the bottom one.....too many pins in the covers of the smaller one for my taste. I suspect knifeaholic is correct, those may have just walked out before makeup had a chance to spruce them up right properly. What patterns are those?

Bill

81225LSS

51405LSS

Patterns from the Parker era that lingered on at Case after he left. They were both Parker USA patterns prior to being Parker/Case patterns. In fact the 405 IIRC goes back to the 70's era Parker Japan knives was called the Leopard.

Thank you knifeaholic.....

Bill

Way to go, knifeaholic! You get a gold star.
The trappers, as well as the lock-backs are ALL factory rejects. "lunch box knives" is correct.
I have had a lot of fun with them.
I think that paknives "tests" are great learning tools and I applaud him for them. That's why I apologized to him, up front.
I posted the trappers, then got sk involved in it and he posted the other 2. All 4 of them are mine.
The trapper's have never been sharpened, handles not shaped, pins not ground down, bolsters not shaped, no shield and one of them, the backsprings haven't been polished. One has a bent backspring, the other had the corner of a backspring ground off,etc...
The 81225LSS; un-sharpenend, bent backspring, pins not ground, etc.
The 51405LSS is pretty much the same.
Thanks for all the great replies. They all were appreciated.
Thanks to sk for going along with it. He did a great job.
These are knives in a condition that we don't often see and are not very pretty. I suppose that with some work, they could be made into usable knives, but I choose to leave them in this condition.
I don't suppose anybody would like to look at them, but if you would, I will send them to you and you can send them back, in a reasonable amount of time.
Thanks for being good sports.
...CCBill...