Camillus Name??

[CRKS]

What is in a name?

The "New Camillus Heat Knife" thread was closed before I could rebut a point that cougar 64 made.

Camillus acquired quite a few names before they closed. Since Camillus purchased the name "Western" did Western cease to exist because Camillus took the name over. When Ka Bar starts production of the Becker line will you stomp you feet and say its not a Becker?

You see Camillus was a manufacturer, I'm not taking that away from them. However they produced quite a few knives that were not their own name or design. Read any book about the Camillus company or any book about knife manufacturers and you will find that Camillus was best known as a contract knife company. Years ago people warned about the end of Camillus because the Name Camillus was not a household name like Buck or Case ect....

After Camillus lost the Remington contact the company started a down hill slide. This brings up another point; When Camillus produced the Remington bullet knives would you say that they were not really Remington knives???

Take a look around, names change every day but the concept remains the same. It seems that the issue is jealousy not who is making the Camillus Heat knife. Let me reiterate; The Camillus Heat was never produced at Camillus Cutlery NY factory, so why all the negativity over the name?

Tom
Chestnut Ridge Knife Shop

 

[RickR]

I always wanted to ask you about the "I'm selling knives not shipping" Your shipping fee is low, but do you know your paying ebay and paypal about 10% of the selling price for listing and selling fees? Unless you were getting some of those knives free you were losing your ass on them. I looked up your information and saw that you are from Camillus, also allot of the knives I was getting from Vinny were the same knives that you were selling. So I'm thinking you worked at Camillus or were friends with Vinny.

Yes - to all of the above.....ummmm...except the friends with Vinny part.

I also ran C.R. Specialties (an online dealer) and had a large inventory of knives at the end. Also, I did alot of other work at Camillus and when money got tight(er), I was *paid* with knives. I never did believe in gouging the customer for shipping costs but that's just me.

I can understand where Phil is coming from. Realize that Phil and I (and many, many others) spent over half our lives literally giving our blood, sweat and tears to a company that kicked us to the curb and worse. Hard feelings? Absolutely!!! But life goes on. IMHO, when it comes time to decide where the truth lies, I beside Phil on this one.

BTW, nice to meet you too. A small part of me wishes I was still in the online retail business but that was another life.....

Good luck to you, tho'!!

 

[Cougar Allen]

Yup, when a moderator tells you your thread is off-topic for that forum and closes it, that doesn't mean go to the appropriate forum with it, it means restart the same thread in the same forum. That's why we close threads, so you can restart them.

It seems that the issue is jealousy not who is making the Camillus Heat knife.

Yup, we all wish we were slow learners like you.