Case Display in Long Island

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I saw a first on Saturday - a Case display at the local Ace Hardware. Not something you really see on Long Island. I would've picked something up to support the cause, but they only had Brooks & Dunn models - not a big fan.
 
yep,they should have a book to order them,it will give more cases also,we have ace hardwares every where,they have some cool glass cases..
 
Just out of curiosity, why would you not see this in Long Island? Is there a municipal law about displaying knives or something like that or a cultural thing?

BTW, Eetz Ze Wango Ze Tango! :-)
 
Ya might ask a clerk to see what else is in the case that they haven't put out..
Sometimes it seems they aren't real good about restocking those cases.
 
texasflyfisher said:
Just out of curiosity, why would you not see this in Long Island? Is there a municipal law about displaying knives or something like that or a cultural thing?
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texasflyfisher, having lived in Nassau County from childhood to college, I can say it's more a cultural thing. If it weren't for the flea market or the local tobacco shop (my grand parents and at the time parents were smokers), you really didn't see many shops carry pocket knives.
 
JHB said:
texasflyfisher, having lived in Nassau County from childhood to college, I can say it's more a cultural thing. If it weren't for the flea market or the local tobacco shop (my grand parents and at the time parents were smokers), you really didn't see many shops carry pocket knives.
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That's exactly right. Being a heavily populated suburb of NYC, knives are seen as scary weapons by a lot of people around here. It's "acceptible" and considered quaint when an old timer carries around a pocket knife. The Dick's Sporting Goods outdoors set'll carry around some sort of Gerber multitool or some sort of CRKT wizbang. If you go into a hunting store, you'll see some fixed blades and Buck, otherwise, even in these places, you'll see mostly Benchmades, Kershaws, and Spydercos and cheap Chinese knockoffs.

It was a bit different when Schrade was around. You'd see their displays here and there, being the local brand, but Case hasn't moved in to fill that vacuum. Can't say I blame them since there doesn't seem to be much of demand.

BTW Tex: Nice on the Nuge lyrics.
 
Sorry I think I wasn't descriptive enough in my first post - it was a W.R. Case display, not a display case.
 
wintermute said:
I saw a first on Saturday - a Case display at the local Ace Hardware. Not something you really see on Long Island. I would've picked something up to support the cause, but they only had Brooks & Dunn models - not a big fan.
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I am in suffolk where is that Ace Hardware store located

Thanks.
 
Around here,there's a few hardware stores that have some knives.
One,is in a small waterfront town of Greenport,they have a good selection of cool stuff & for the commercial fisherman too.They have Opinel,Buck,Dexter,and some others,it's one of my favorite hardware stores out here.I bought a bunch of Old Timers they had left ,passed them around.That same place once had the Case knives,but then no longer had them.There is another hardware store to the west a bit,but they had what was left over in the display & not seeme to be re stocking
I'm in Suffolk Co.,too,but I'm way out there,the tip of the North Fork.In fact,if you look close on a good day,you can see the end of the Earth out here :D

I envy you guys ,who have pocket knife stores all over the place.
-Vince
 
There was a college kid out there about three or four years ago during the Greenport Maritime festival that had a display of custom fixed blades he made. I believe his last name was Anderson. His stamp on the blade was a letter with an anchor attached( probably an "A" ) I'm about 99.9% sure of his last name. I left there not remembering to get his card and haven't seen him since. Real nice knives I hope he kept up with it.

I called a couple of Ace Hardware stores around me but they had nothing. Nassau is not that far from me, it would be nice to see the different patterns up close. I am new to slipjoints ( cheap knives when I was a kid then right on to higher end tac folders ).
 
SVRIDER1,I think you are talking about Mike Johnson
I'm not sure about the anchor stamp,but I saw an album on his friends' craft table of his knives there,at that Maritime Festival
He usually has a few on display in an art gallery down there,too. "Fiedler's" is the art dealers name
He himself hunts deer out in Orient Pt,last stop out here,and has given Mike a few hefty antlers for handles on some knives Mike made for him,so he told me Nice guys & Mike's knives are really fantastic!
That town has a lot of history
-Vince
 
JOHNSON that's it. I kept telling myself after I posted it was Johnson not Anderson. The hook on the "J" was barbed like a fish hook. He had very interesting knives ex. Tanto blade with a clear acrylic handle with something inside the acrylic. Silk wrapped handle's with an old bolt for a menuki, had kind of a road warrior wasteland feel to it. I don't know if my description makes any sense, but they definitely had a style all there own. Nice stuff
 
SV,I've only seen like stag & wood handled forged hunters & Camp sized knives from him.But 4 years ago,he may have been fooling around with who knows what . Last I knew he was living out in Orient Pt., I briefly met him at the Nov show in NYC.,one time,but I never went to his place out here
Canine Joe has a knife of his he bought off me I got it from Les Robertson though
Funny thing,that art dealer,Fiedler,about 2 years ago I was in his store at that festival,showing him a Jerry Halfrich trapper He was flipped out by it !!

Sorry to get off the Case knives guys,but its really cool to talk about some close to home knife stuff & it goes to show,even though I've said it too,that it's a geographical thing,sometimes you stumble onto some cool stuff

-Vince
 
Living and working in NYC (with some good amount of time spent on the island as well) I know how rare slippies are in any kind of store myself. I think that metro NY just has never had the same kind of history with regards to using and collecting them like you see in the south and midwest.....no demand equals no supply.

I'll always try to check out any type of hardware store (better chances if it's independently owned) or sporting shop when I can and almost every time it's a bust. I had success just once when I found a hardware store near Chinatown with an old Schrade display that still had 4 knives in it.
 
SVRIDER1 said:
I am in suffolk where is that Ace Hardware store located
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It's in Bethpage on Hempstead Turnpike. It was only at one of the registers mostly hidden behind a bunch of impulse buy junk. Growing up as a kid on Long Island (I'm 33 - it wasn't that long ago), all of the local hardware stores had displays, and I rode my bike countless times to the St. James 5-and-Dime and stared at the Schrade and Buck cases they had.
 
RandallFlagg said:
Living and working in NYC (with some good amount of time spent on the island as well) I know how rare slippies are in any kind of store myself.
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Forgive the off-topic digression please, but last time I was in NYC (maybe 2 years ago) I was pleasantly surprised how many Leatherman and Victorinox displays I noticed in shop windows. (I also had a hell of a good time! :D )
 
mnblade said:
Forgive the off-topic digression please, but last time I was in NYC (maybe 2 years ago) I was pleasantly surprised how many Leatherman and Victorinox displays I noticed in shop windows
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That still remains true. I sometimes laugh at the irony as I go home via train out NY Penn Station, there's a giant SAK display draped against the background of patrorling NYPD and Gurardsman. But somber is the thought the Case can't have a similar display.

I do recall after the flea markets closing heading to acroos the Suffolk border and hitting some of the gun shops in Huntington and picking up a few knives there. If only I knew then what I liked now.
 
I live in Stony Brook here on the Island. There are plenty of gun and knife shops in Suffolk (T&T, The Bladesman, Suffolk Sportsman, Campsite etc.) I don't normally see many display windows anymore so I don't notice knife displays but out here in Suffolk I see pocket clipped knives all the time, even fixed blades sometimes while out and about. I guess Suffolk is different from Nassau because we're more suburban/rural.
 
Haven't been out to ol' Stony Brook in some time. I'm an alumnus and can only imagine how much it's changed over the years.
 
bobbomatic1 said:
I live in Stony Brook here on the Island. There are plenty of gun and knife shops in Suffolk (T&T, The Bladesman, Suffolk Sportsman, Campsite etc.) I don't normally see many display windows anymore so I don't notice knife displays but out here in Suffolk I see pocket clipped knives all the time, even fixed blades sometimes while out and about. I guess Suffolk is different from Nassau because we're more suburban/rural.
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I wouldn't say there's a lack of knife carrying citizens in Nassau County, it's that there isn't really a lot of trad. slippies. I can go to any hunting/outdoors/gun/knife shop around here and they have plenty of more modern knives, but if you want an old school slippie, you have to go online, and a local gun shop actually told me to do just that.
 
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