20 year old brass Balisong

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I recently made a post in which I said that since my Jag broke, that I have no Bali. That was wrong. I have an old brass one. My sister found it in the road when she was like 8 or 9 years old. She got off the bus to come home and found it. My father took it from her of course. He put it up, and forgot about it, for twenty years! He recently came back across it, tried to give it back to my sister, but she didn’t want it, so now I have it. It is around twenty years old, but was lost when it was new, not even sharpened once! The handles are brass, and it got run over, so it has some deep marks on one side. The handles were made from brass rods, perfectly round (other than the blade channels). They are about 7/16 or an inch in diameter. About ¾ of an inch of knurling is at the bottom of the handles. Brass latch, brass pins, and a Bowie blade. The blade says 440 STAINLESS, STEEL, JAPAN. The comas rep. a new line of text. Three lines of text. Any ideas as to who it is made by or how much it is worth, not that I would sell it, but it would be nice to know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Back in the 80s they made ones like that.
They went for about 20-30 dollars then.
Outside of that I dont know

Knifesmith

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Sounds like a nice piece. To bad about the damage.

Some company made/imported some very nice brass balisongs in the late 70's early 80's with that mark. I don't know who it was. They are very durable.

The technically correct way to write out your tang stamp would be "440 Stainless (over) Steel (over) Japan". I don't want to imply that you were incorrect. We all got the message and that is the point. The use of (over) is a bit of an obscure collector's thing. But, if you want to discuss this with some pedantic collectors, now you know how.


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Chuck
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Knifesmith,
Thank you. I have been using it a little, so I'm sort of glad that it was not some sort of collectors peace.

Gollnick,
Thank you as well. There is always more than one way to to solve a problem, but some ways are better. I tink I will stick to using (over) from now on. Its much more understandable. Thank you.

One flaw in the design of this old brass thing is thatall they did was cut the blade channels into a brass rod. They should have flatened out the edges than were created by doing that. I have yet to get cut, but I got pinched pretty good! 1/4 inch horse shoe shaped blood blister on my right thumb. I think I would rather be cut a little.



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A man who knows not, and knows not that he knows not is a fool, avoid him. A man who knows not, and knows that he knows not is a wise man, teach him.
 
I am not aware of any company in Japan other than Seto that made butterfly knives. They still make them but they do not sell butterfly knives retail, and no one is importing them, due to the situations with customs. Does it look like any of these in this photo?
<img src=http://members.aol.com/expojohnr7/setobali1.jpg>
Thanks, JohnR7 www.BalisongKnife.com
 
JohnR7!

You wouldn't have any address to this company would you??
Either web address or fax or street/P.O box.

TIA
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