beloved knife case is gone

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Well the beloved knife case at my local farm store is no more. The last knife case that I was aware of that I could go to look and buy USA made knives. Over the years I bought many a great Buck, Case, Old Timer, Uncle Henry and Kershaw knives out of this case. The owners would even unlock the case and leave me to sit on the floor and inspect each knife and dig for treasures. Been bummed out about this for a month and this week stopped to pay up and in a bucket on the counter was a CASE Red Pocket Work Trapper 4 1/8 no box or papers marked $46.99 and 50% off! My dog just got a new knife yeeeehaw!

I sure think the knife company’s need to go back to counter top displays and salesmen making routes. With the exception of WW, I can’t tell anyone wanting to give the knife company’s money a place to go buy one.
 
Sorry moderators if I got this in the wrong place, not meaning anything negative towards anyone just wondering where others get knives from once their traditional knife case or store is gone.
 
It has been many years since I have seen a fully loaded knife case anywhere. I know the last time I did it was in some small town around here at a hardware store.

Although the traditional folders have a strong, hard core following, their sales do not.

And with manufacturing of knives havign changed so much, the knife makers have, too. It used to be that you had 2 sizes of stockmans, a Barlow, a couple of jacks, a folding hunter, a trapper, a couple of pen knives, and a utility looking knife in the case. The cases actually had form fitted openings for the specific knife in them.

Now they make different knives as quickly as they can jig up their CNC machinery, and most of the patterns are different every couple of years.

Time marches on.

Robert
 
The time I saw a fully loaded knife case was in a hardware store in a small town in VT.
 
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