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Permalink Reply by Rome D. Rushing on January 20, 2011 at 6:52

I am not really sure how many stockman pattern knives I have.  Omiting the sowbelly pattern I believe the number is somewhere in the area of 125 or so with the majority being in the 3 7/8" to 4" r ange.  Thanks for bringing this up Hog Hammer I have a new knife catalog sitting here, so  i think i will look and see if there is anything I like.

Permalink Reply by Rome D. Rushing on February 1, 2011 at 18:31

Well, like I said there was a new catalog just sitting there so I had to order something.

But the question is which one of these is the new one and which one is made in China?

Permalink Reply by DELBERT COVER on February 2, 2011 at 12:32

the bottom one is CHINA.

Permalink Reply by DELBERT COVER on February 2, 2011 at 12:41

I have about 40 different stock mans pattern. They are all JACK KNIFE BEN or CATTARAUGUS brand so they are all at least 50 t0 100 years old. Most are bone handled but there are some pearl, stag, ebony and celluloid. Some have a punch blade and some have the sheep foot blade. I have a few whittlers and some 4 bladed cattle knives also.

In MemoriamPermalink Reply by D ale on February 3, 2011 at 0:58

Top = New

Mid = Deutsch

Btm = China 

 

Rome D. Rushing said:

But the question is which one of these is the new one and which one is made in China?

Permalink Reply by Lynn on February 4, 2011 at 19:19

Just in the 75 pattern well over 150, dang I need to get a life:-)

Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on February 5, 2011 at 8:59

Right and before you know it another one is purchased lol!

Lynn said:

Just in the 75 pattern well over 150, dang I need to get a life:-)

Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on February 5, 2011 at 9:01

You know I don't know the answer either so here goes my guess:

Top =China

Mid = New

Bottom - German

Permalink Reply by Rome D. Rushing on February 5, 2011 at 19:30

Well several people have been right.

The bottom  knife was bought in about 1979, and at that time it was the most expensive knife that I had ever bought.

If you look you can tell that the main blade is stainless and the other 2 are carbon.

The middle knife was bought about 1995 and is all stainless and made in Germany.

Now the top knife is both the new knife and the Chinese made knife.

I just got it about a week ago.  All of the blades are stainless, and it is interesting to note that Kissing Crane name is now being made in China but the Robert Klaas labeled knives are being made in Germany.  Kissing Crane has always been a Robert Klaas logo.

I just thought it was fun to compare the three knives all with the same logo, same size, same handle material and see what the differences were.

 

 

Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on February 6, 2011 at 9:24

Wow thanks for that answer. Well some got it right or half right! That was an interesting thing to do, compare knives like that. It shows several things, that pattern and handle material ahas been around a while and it all looks amazingly similar but if you look closely there are differences.

Rome D. Rushing said:

Well several people have been right.

The bottom  knife was bought in about 1979, and at that time it was the most expensive knife that I had ever bought.

If you look you can tell that the main blade is stainless and the other 2 are carbon.

The middle knife was bought about 1995 and is all stainless and made in Germany.

Now the top knife is both the new knife and the Chinese made knife.

I just got it about a week ago.  All of the blades are stainless, and it is interesting to note that Kissing Crane name is now being made in China but the Robert Klaas labeled knives are being made in Germany.  Kissing Crane has always been a Robert Klaas logo.

I just thought it was fun to compare the three knives all with the same logo, same size, same handle material and see what the differences were.

 

 

Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on February 6, 2011 at 9:27

I've noticed that too, probably happening more and more the "low end" of a brand is being made in China and the rest of the line may be made in US or Germany. I think Buck comes to mind as one company doing that now. 

Ivars Duntavs said:

I saw somwhere Kissing Crane new Stockman knives, but manufactured in Germany! Price aprox. 35$ or more. I think that only chepest KC are maded in china. KC prices aprox. from 12$. The cheapest knives for everybody who dont want to spend a big money just for pocket knife. For collectors, more expensive, better quality, in Germany manufacctured knives.

Permalink Reply by Rome D. Rushing on February 6, 2011 at 15:14

Puma now has a line that I think they are calling SSB line.

Soligen Steel Blades but are assembled in china so they can sell at

competitive prices. 

Just the other day I was in the sporting goods store when a gentleman about

70yrs old or so came in asking about pocket knives.  That store sold both Case

and Buck and when the sales person showed him the stockman knives he proclaimed

" I have never paid that much for a knife and I am not starting now". He then asked

if they had anything in the $30 range and the salesman pointed out the Chinese made Bucks

that were in the next counter.  He purchased one of those, he said he wanted a working knife not

a  saving knife.

So that is what the knife companies are up against. 

My on father, who is 82, has been using Craftsman knives for years(Camillus or Schrade) but the other day he was complaining about a new knife he had bought .  It was a new chinese made schrade and he said it just would

not hold an edge.  He does wood work and is always using his knife, well by the time I found one he liked and

kept we had made it up to a stainless soligen made Boker 4" 3 bld stockman.

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