All About Pocket Knives

So here is a set with many missing. I couldnt leave them for $10. Not new but not hacked up. I replaced one out of my edc knife block.

For a sawbuck I wouldn't have left them either! Great score!

Thanks I feel better

JACK OF ALL TIRADES wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 12:45 am Thanks I feel better

I felt the same about these little critters I bought for 50 cents apiece.I checked out e-Bay and couldn't believe what people were asking for them when they even came up for sale.In case you haven't seen them before they are table knife rests made for Cutco.The "Sherlock" was a logo they used at one time.I wound up giving them away to fellow collectors and now only have one large and one small left.

$10 was a steal! I like the ergonomics of the 1020--I think with a sheath, it would be a decent neck knife.

Cutco are supposedly really good knives, but also really expensive. When they refurbed a 1881 "Pocket Knife" I had, they sent a catalog with it, and I had a heart attack looking at the quite high prices. Not to mention the 1881 is about $70, when every other comparable knife from US cutlery companies is $30 or less in similar steels.

The best I can figure out this is a salesman's sample showing the different handles Cutco used on their kitchen knives. The problem is I don't see another one to be certain. Has anyone ever seen an item like this before?

JACK OF ALL TIRADES wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:41 pm So here is a set with many missing. I couldnt leave them for $10. Not new but not hacked up. I replaced one out of my edc knife block.20201118_131924(1).jpg

You stole 'em!! Good job!!

Here are 3 that my wife was gifted many years ago. There were 4 but someone tried to use it as a pry bar & snapped the blade right at the hilt.

knife7knut wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:35 am Here are 3 that my wife was gifted many years ago. There were 4 but someone tried to use it as a pry bar & snapped the blade right at the hilt.

knife7knut, you may be on to something.... I have been trying to use this Craftsman to cut and prepare food in the kitchen I wish I could have traded it out for that Cutco before they broke the blade... seems like we both would have had the better end of the deal...

Here is a couple of cutco’s my wife picked up at a thrift store for 50 cents each.
I actually tried selling cutco knife sets door to door when I got out of school. I sold one set and that was to my mom and she still has them. I found out right away I wasn’t a salesman!!

just bob wrote: ↑Sat Oct 22, 2022 11:39 am The best I can figure out this is a salesman's sample showing the different handles Cutco used on their kitchen knives. The problem is I don't see another one to be certain. Has anyone ever seen an item like this before?

That is a cool piece! What else could it be but a sample?
Probably not that many made. Seems most salesmen probably just had different knives with different handles to let customers use

I have several Cutco knives including a field knife. Lifetime guaranteed so return the one that snapped for a replacement.

Cutco is hard to beat. High priced to be sure but life time warrantee. Find one that been used and abused Cutco will repair or replace for free. Bought one of the hunting knives in the 1980’s field dressed 5 deer and 2 antelope before I sent it in to be sharpened. If you like to sharpen your own knives Cutco is not for you. However you can send a pile of em in for sharpening for basically the postage. AND you seldom need to send em in. If you’re tired of the wife complaining about dull kitchen knives. Get her some Cutco’s and experience marital bliss. My wife does not like em cause they are too sharp and scares her. Makes no sense to me but moms had a set for years and would have no other.