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Need info on a Kabar

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 5:53 pm
by edge213
I have this Kabar Barlow 1014 with wood handles and brass bolsters.
Kabar made a series of these with this handle and bolster combo.
I looked through my books and online. I haven't found much.

Were these made by Alcas or someone else?
Were they made about 1977?
Were they called the "Classic Series"?

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Need info on a Kabar

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:05 pm
by treefarmer
No help from me but, Wow! That's a fine lookin' Barlow style Kabar! ::tu::
Treefarmer

Re: Need info on a Kabar

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:11 pm
by edge213
treefarmer wrote: Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:05 pm No help from me but, Wow! That's a fine lookin' Barlow style Kabar! ::tu::
Treefarmer
Thanks TF

Re: Need info on a Kabar

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:40 pm
by doglegg
David. I agree with Philip on that one. Very sweet.

Re: Need info on a Kabar

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 7:14 pm
by edge213
Thanks dog

Re: Need info on a Kabar

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 7:25 pm
by XX Case XX
Good question as I have one too but it's a Stockman.

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Mike

Re: Need info on a Kabar

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 10:47 pm
by zzyzzogeton
The historical pricing chart indicates that the 1014 was produced from "the mid-1960s to 1984".

Since it has a model number, that makes it after 1969, when model numbers started showing up on Cole National era knives.

Final suggested retail price was $20.

Gunsil will probably be able to tell us who made it.

Re: Need info on a Kabar

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 11:39 pm
by edge213
zzyzzogeton wrote: Tue Apr 19, 2022 10:47 pm The historical pricing chart indicates that the 1014 was produced from "the mid-1960s to 1984".

Since it has a model number, that makes it after 1969, when model numbers started showing up on Cole National era knives.

Final suggested retail price was $20.

Gunsil will probably be able to tell us who made it.
Thank you.
Hopefully Gunsil will see this.

Re: Need info on a Kabar

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 12:32 am
by Gunsil
Sorry guys, I neither like or know much about such new Kabars (I prefer KA-BARs). Probably made by Camillus, possibly Schrade. KA-BAR quality went way down after WW2 and declined even more by the 1970s. Steve (Knifaholic) says later Kabars were made by Camillus but a lot of Kabar stamps with model numbers were found in the Schrade factory when thy closed. Pretty much all my catalogs and price lists end in the early 1950s, I just have never studied the later knives.