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Jan Carter's Blog – December 2012 Archive (5)

Manufactures VS Custom and is there something n between?

SWISS ARMY KNIFE - SAK (example only)

The knife I call the ultimate in manufactured. You can put 200 of them in your hand and each and every one of the will be identical. They are machine made in mass quantities and have proven to be a reliable knife over many years. Every knife collector I know has one in the collection. Until iKC I did not realize the extent of the variables. I did not know short runs existed.…

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Added by Jan Carter on December 20, 2012 at 22:34 — 3 Comments

POLL?

Statements I have recently heard include

"I dont know why people say the quality is inconsistent, I have never bought a bad one"

"I never should have listened to the bad reviews, I always knew them to be a good company with a good product"

"Everyone said it was close to custom quality"

What I hear when I read comments like that is :

"The internet effects what I purchase and why"

Recently we saw a case where a bad video…

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Added by Jan Carter on December 16, 2012 at 18:00 — 7 Comments

Wounded Warrior Christmas Knife Auction

The Great Eastern Christmas Knife

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Added by Jan Carter on December 12, 2012 at 21:05 — No Comments

The needle in the hay stack ??

Recently we have had some discussions in the chat about auctions and utilizing a buyers market to obtain that one special peice, or even just find it, in an auction site as big as ebay. Type in just knife and this is what comes up...388,097 results found for knife. Talk about a needle in a haystack!

Then they give us the way to beak it down.... spring assisted knife, throwing knives, hunting knife, gerber knife, sword, survival knife, pocket knives, knife lot, pocket knife. (well…

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Added by Jan Carter on December 10, 2012 at 19:45 — 1 Comment

What have auctions done for our hobby?

When Donnie started collecting you had to go to a knife show or travel to a dealer. Your local hardware usually only carried a few patterns from one maybe two makers. Of course as he became an adult, the area around Gatlinburg always had somewhere you could go see numerous brands and being from the South he went there as often as possible.

When I became interested, we had a few dealers that were online. They would tell you what they had and if you were interested, they would email…

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Added by Jan Carter on December 1, 2012 at 17:07 — 7 Comments