This is just a little quest for information that I'm finally getting around to asking for help on. My casual internet searches have never yielded the true answer before I get distracted and fall down some other shiny rabbit hole.
So, I come to the masters with a vague description in the hopes that someone recalls this thing that I must've seen in a magazine more than 30 years ago. This is all from fading memory, or possibly a fever dream.
- primarily made of bronze. Article made a boast that you could bury it for 50 years and it'll still slice an apple.
- over-simplified design. A half-frame, a pivot, and a blade. That was the major idea. I don't recall a clip. Pretty sure frame lock.
- chisel grind. The design had to fit the blade flat against the frame with exacting precision when folded. I'm thinking tanto or wharncliffe.
- 1990's era, before the internet was mainstream
- renowned maker? I think the article made a point to give credit to the designer(s)
- assuming low production. I distinctly recall that the sale price was high. Material and methods contributed.
That's about the extent of what my addled brain has retained all these years. I'm not in any hurry, really not even interested to own this particular knife - more that I have always wondered if it held up to those claims. Did somebody really blow a couple hundred Clinton-era bucks just to dig a hole in the back yard, toss it in, and wait for the warranty claim? Carry it and use it every day until the intended safety of that precise fit gave way to a pocket hazard? Relegated to the back of the safe for all eternity?
I appreciate the insight, as always.
So, I come to the masters with a vague description in the hopes that someone recalls this thing that I must've seen in a magazine more than 30 years ago. This is all from fading memory, or possibly a fever dream.
- primarily made of bronze. Article made a boast that you could bury it for 50 years and it'll still slice an apple.
- over-simplified design. A half-frame, a pivot, and a blade. That was the major idea. I don't recall a clip. Pretty sure frame lock.
- chisel grind. The design had to fit the blade flat against the frame with exacting precision when folded. I'm thinking tanto or wharncliffe.
- 1990's era, before the internet was mainstream
- renowned maker? I think the article made a point to give credit to the designer(s)
- assuming low production. I distinctly recall that the sale price was high. Material and methods contributed.
That's about the extent of what my addled brain has retained all these years. I'm not in any hurry, really not even interested to own this particular knife - more that I have always wondered if it held up to those claims. Did somebody really blow a couple hundred Clinton-era bucks just to dig a hole in the back yard, toss it in, and wait for the warranty claim? Carry it and use it every day until the intended safety of that precise fit gave way to a pocket hazard? Relegated to the back of the safe for all eternity?
I appreciate the insight, as always.
