I have dated some amazing women, and I don’t mind dating these knives either.
Klein knives are clear vintages, and they’re one of those knives that went to the war. They’re not like the other vintage war knives I’ve dated because they’re not fighting knives. In most of the places that I’ve come across a Klein knife, it was either a military electrician’s knife or for another handyman. Still,…
The Camillus knives went to the war (WWI & WWII), was handcrafted for some presidents, and lived more than 100 years before the company shut down. All of these make the recipe for a truly great knife that deserves our attention. Like every other knife I’ve dated, the Camillus knives are challenging in their way….
The Case Kodiak is one of the most interesting exports from the company and continues to command a high price today. It is knives like these that make some people on the outside question why Case knives are so expensive when they are just a great value for their money. If you happen to have…
If you have spent some time here before, then we have dated some pretty amazing knives together. Of course, they were sharp and most of them are older than us, but that doesn’t mean we lost interest. Today, it’s time to date the Cattaraugus knife to a specific era and see what beauty you have…
Do you have a knife that you want to have sold? Or do you just want to know the value of your knife? Maybe you want to buy a knife and you want to be sure it’s worth the price too? No matter which it is, there are a series of reasons why you might…
Of all the knives that I have ever tried to date, the Kinfolks remain one of the most beautiful. Just look at it and you would see the same thing. However, that beauty does come with some challenges in telling the exact era that the knife is from. If you have a Kinfolks knife of…
Some of the best knives that we know today either came before any of the World Wars or were made because of one or both of those wars. True, those origins are shrouded in a lot of poor occurrences but the knives stayed on to mark those eras and the good work of manufacturers in…
Barlow knives are considered by some knife collectors to be up there with the 1918 trench knife. However, Barlows have been around for much longer than that and should be considered a bigger collector’s item. Before you can regard them as a collector’s item, though, you need to know that you are working with the…
I have written different guides on how to date different knives to a specific era but this one is different. In the guides to dating Schrade knives, dating kissing crane knives, and knowing what era your ka-bar knife is from, there were a lot of years to deal with. Now, we know already that this…
If you have a Schrade knife that you maybe find in the attic or was passed down to you by an older person, you might be sitting on a nice collector’s item there. However, how nice of a Schrade knife you have is also dependent on what era the knife came from. That is why,…
