age of bose knives?

brightred

brightred

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to the untrained eye (=me) most of the knives by tony and reese bose look as if they were made only yesterday (but the only bose folder i have handled was heavily used!). i wonder if the steel type (ats-34, d2, cpm-154, 440v) helps to determine the age of a knife?

thank you for your help!

best regards,
hans
 
All I can say is that if I don't use my Bose knives I get a whole lot of grief from some Old Dawg.
 
hans,the CPM 154 knives are the newest
There are many Tony & Reese Bose knives out there,that get used & loved
A lot,get put back,collected & loved.
Hope I helped,
-Vince
 
brightred said:
to the untrained eye (=me) most of the knives by tony and reese bose look as if they were made only yesterday (but the only bose folder i have handled was heavily used!). i wonder if the steel type (ats-34, d2, cpm-154, 440v) helps to determine the age of a knife?

thank you for your help!

best regards,
hans
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All of those steels are being used today to make new knives and, with the exception of CPM-154, have been used for quite a while. You can say without a doubt that the knives were made sometime between 1973 and now. :D
 
Doesn't Tony change the lineup every so often? If you have a knife that he no longer offers, it's old. If he's still making them, then it's new. Duh!

:D
 
Hans, there are some features of knives or certain patterns, that kamagong mentioned above, that could point to it's age. We would need to see it to get an idea of its approx. birthdate.
 
I bought my first T Bose in 1995, wish I still had it. There's been a few articles written in Blade mag over the years on T & R Bose, would be good to dig em up.
 
You can also tell the earlier ones (in some cases) by straighter nail nicks, more pins and smaller swedges. I think there are some early examples in the Bose thread here.
 
wow, don't tell me this isn't rocket science! future archaeologists will have a hard time. :)

however, thank you very much for your help, gentlemen!

best regards,
hans
 
Older Bose knives tended to have more pins in the scales than newer ones (of similar pattern); they normally had nickel silver bolsters and liners (he uses stainless steel now and has for a while); the nail nick was cut differently - older ones look like the nick was cut by a dremel cutoff wheel or similar and are more linear with blunt ends - newer knives have nail nicks with very sharply pointed ends and a nice lower curve (due to the use of a fly cutter on a mill to cut the nick); IIRC, older knives will also lack the milled tang relief in the liners around the pivot. There are some folks here that can give you approximate dates for most of these features, but I'm not quite that knowledgeable. Of course, only the oldest knives will have *all* of the "archaic" features. I seem to remember that the oldest knives did not have the steel marked on the tang, but I may be wrong about that.
 
Has Tony or Reese ever thought about publishing a collectors guide with dates, and materials and other fun facts about they're wares?.

Just curious?

Anthony
 
sunnyd said:
Has Tony or Reese ever thought about publishing a collectors guide with dates, and materials and other fun facts about they're wares?.

Just curious?

Anthony
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That's a great idea for the web site, Anthony. I'll work with guys on that and get it posted.:thumbup:
 
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