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Hi,
Just thought I'd give a little report on my first knife show that I went to with the intention of looking at and buying only slipjoints. I've collected knives for a few years, but have tired of the endless round of tacticals (not that I dislike what I have). For the last several months I have increasingly been enamored by the old and new pocket knives of my youth (always wanted to use youth in a sentence).
Anyway, I went to the WRKA show in Dover, OH on Saturday. I've been there before in prior years, but never as a newbie slipjoint collector. I went with the intention of getting some good books, a good knife or two, and to possibly ask some questions.
First off, I already had my Levine's, so I went looking specifically for Jim Parker's price guide. I also got a brand new book (autographed by the author who was at the show) titled "American Pocketknives, A History of Schatt & Morgan, and Queen Cutlery" by David A. Krauss, Ph.D. It looks to be very thorough (I'm planning on reading it on my trip I'm taking soon).
A gentleman by the name of Doug Armentrout was kind enough to spend quite awhile talking knives with me. He introduced me to David Krause and pointed out several dealers at the show that were trustworthy.
One of those dealers was Ken Daniels, who specializes in Case Stags. I had not intended on buying a stag handled knife at this show, but I really was attracted to the 5383 patterns he had. I picked up the 1970 10-dot one shown here.
I also found out that my 1970 10-dot 6308 was not in fact bone, but rather delrin. Doug was kind enough to show me how to identify the difference between bone and delrin (and also told me to stop carrying the 6308 around if I intended on keeping it as a collection piece).
I think I'm going to specialize in whittlers (I also think I am going to go poor as I pick up the ones I want).
Another gentleman that was helpful was Patrick J. Donovan. He and Doug had some beautiful modern Schatt and Morgan and Queen knives. I picked up the Queen black cherry whittler for a carry knife from him - very reasonably priced.
I really enjoyed myself and wished I could have stayed longer, but my wife had reached her boredom point about a 1/2 hour before we left. We then went to shop for baskets and soap and stuff (needless to say I also reached my boredom point). All in all, it was a good day.
Dean
Just thought I'd give a little report on my first knife show that I went to with the intention of looking at and buying only slipjoints. I've collected knives for a few years, but have tired of the endless round of tacticals (not that I dislike what I have). For the last several months I have increasingly been enamored by the old and new pocket knives of my youth (always wanted to use youth in a sentence).
Anyway, I went to the WRKA show in Dover, OH on Saturday. I've been there before in prior years, but never as a newbie slipjoint collector. I went with the intention of getting some good books, a good knife or two, and to possibly ask some questions.
First off, I already had my Levine's, so I went looking specifically for Jim Parker's price guide. I also got a brand new book (autographed by the author who was at the show) titled "American Pocketknives, A History of Schatt & Morgan, and Queen Cutlery" by David A. Krauss, Ph.D. It looks to be very thorough (I'm planning on reading it on my trip I'm taking soon).
A gentleman by the name of Doug Armentrout was kind enough to spend quite awhile talking knives with me. He introduced me to David Krause and pointed out several dealers at the show that were trustworthy.
One of those dealers was Ken Daniels, who specializes in Case Stags. I had not intended on buying a stag handled knife at this show, but I really was attracted to the 5383 patterns he had. I picked up the 1970 10-dot one shown here.
I also found out that my 1970 10-dot 6308 was not in fact bone, but rather delrin. Doug was kind enough to show me how to identify the difference between bone and delrin (and also told me to stop carrying the 6308 around if I intended on keeping it as a collection piece).
I think I'm going to specialize in whittlers (I also think I am going to go poor as I pick up the ones I want).
Another gentleman that was helpful was Patrick J. Donovan. He and Doug had some beautiful modern Schatt and Morgan and Queen knives. I picked up the Queen black cherry whittler for a carry knife from him - very reasonably priced.
I really enjoyed myself and wished I could have stayed longer, but my wife had reached her boredom point about a 1/2 hour before we left. We then went to shop for baskets and soap and stuff (needless to say I also reached my boredom point). All in all, it was a good day.
Dean
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