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Comment by Shlomo ben Maved on May 9, 2012 at 19:24

These two originals:

 

 

 

M.H. Cole Version

 

 

 

 

W.R. Case  First Special Service Force

Comment by Shlomo ben Maved on May 9, 2012 at 19:16

Here are three of the V-42 which is the famous knife of the Combined Force:

The first is by Rob Carlton of Damascus USA who has made a number of knives for me over the years...Great knives, excellent prices, super customer service and I'm hoping to be ordering three more from him this summer...His price for this is $375

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one is a reproduction that CAS Hanwei has been making for a few years now...It is a very finely made knife.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This last one is by a US maker whose name I have lost (for the moment) that he is making a run of IIRC ten blades...He didn't have a sheath made yet so he used the one from the original.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comment by Jan Carter on April 23, 2012 at 19:35

Some really good info there Ron, thanks for sharing

Comment by Jan Carter on April 5, 2012 at 18:08

Cant wait to see it Ron

Comment by Shlomo ben Maved on March 28, 2012 at 21:12

Quite an expensive line--for us--as we have to add 20% duty, 6.5% GST (Fed Tax) and 12% exchange rate to the dollar...The duty varies by certain criteria and exchange rate fluctuates but this is the general rule of thumb. 

$100.00 + 12.00 (exc) = $112.00 + 22.40 (duty) = $134.40 + 8.74 (GST) = $143.14 and then a brokerage fee from Fed Ex or whomever of $5.00 to $20.00 but that's at least on the whole order not the individual blades...As you can see, it works out to 43% plus brokerage so I just half the amount again when looking at US prices. 

At one point the exchange rate was almost 60% and boy did that cut down on cross border shoppers from Canada but boy did we ever get a lot of Americans coming to buy--which was the intent in the first place.

We also like the US knives but we don't really have another choice unless you go European, which I did with Boker, Puma, Scandinavian and Italian makers when the exchange rate was horrendous.

We have a huge Icelandic population hereabouts as well as a large amount of Finns so the puukko wasn't something foreign to me as lots of our friends carried them hunting and camping and which is why I got into collecting them.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on March 28, 2012 at 19:41

Shlomo, USA or Canada is like a line in the dirt for me, I like knives and makers on both sides.

Comment by Jan Carter on March 28, 2012 at 18:19

Well it sounds about as varied as we are around here.  I love the knives from Knives of Alaska, his site is awesome

Comment by Shlomo ben Maved on March 26, 2012 at 23:55

As I said earlier, whatever you can get in the USA we have here.

The array of my friends and family carry everything that's out there, not any one maker over the other.

I collect CRKT, yet, most of my daughters carry the Bob Dozier folder by Ka-Bar because it was one of the first ones that were available in pink, my wife carries a Chris Reeve Sebenza and I have a Boker Deluxe Camp in my left pants pocket, my two brothers carry SOG, one of my S-I-Ls carries her husband's old Emerson and the other a Zero Tolerance, my sister a Buck 119 and her husband a Knives of Alaska Hunter CF...They were over for dinner this evening and I asked them to show me their carry knives..

That would be for today, tomorrow, the only constant will be my Boker and my B-I-L's Hunter (which we got him for his B-Day).

My married daughters and their husbands carry a variety of makers amongst themselves.

Gerber would probably be the least carried of the major makers since they cheapened their line, quality wise, so much and the Canadian Tire store near us carries more then just Gerber.

The Cabela's store we have here carries a different line-up of knives then the sister store in East Grand Forks, MN.

Comment by Jan Carter on March 26, 2012 at 18:50

Shlomo,

I actually meant manufacture.  Ron says in his area it is Gerber, who do you think it would be in your area?

Comment by Shlomo ben Maved on March 24, 2012 at 17:34

Do you mean custom or commercial?  Manufacturer implies mass production, maker is one or two att a time.

Canadian or elsewhere?

My favourite Canadian makers are Mel Long, Brent Beshara, Gaetan Beauchamp, Rod Ridley, Ed Storch, Geo Bandt, Trent Entwistle, Greg Lightfoot, Jeff Dotte, Brian Tighe, Pierre Rodrique, Randy Doucette, Jeff Maron, Rick Marchand, Kirby Lambert, Steve Vanderkolff and just got two small blades from Sean O'Hare.

As to manufacturers available--we only have the one but whatever you can get in the USA we can get here as well and we might not have as great an affinity to "Made in the USA" most of us still prefer them over what you call imports but remember here in Canada y'all are imports to us.

Comment by Jan Carter

So that brings up the question (at least for me)

Who do you all think the most imported knife manufacture is?

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