CUTCO Hunting knife and pocket knives

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I use my CUTCO knife (two blade trapper) everywhere i go camping, hiking, fishing and backpacking. One of my blades is a Double D edge (DD). guys you wont believe it but the hunting knife and the two blade trapper with this blade has NEVER gone dull in the last 6 yrs since it was given to me. its the best knife that ive ever owned. a truly awsome gift that my wife gave me. Http://www.cutco.com you must have a look see and believe it for yourself.
 
I'm happy for you, and it's good that you've got a wife that loves you and wants to please you. That puts you way out in front, no matter how those knives perform!
That aside, I wonder what steel they are using......? Toothy blades continue to cut even after they are dull..... they kind of saw their way through stuff.
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I talked to one of their "cutlery experts" at their booth at the fair last summer. I asked what kind of steel they used and he said "its a surgical quality high carbon stainless steel" And I said "whats the actual name for the steel"? He kind of paused and then mumbled,"440A". He didn't know how hard it was or if it had been cryo treated or not though.
Then I witnessed him trying badger some old lady into buying their ice cream scoop because it was "full tang construction, absolitely indestructable".
The knives actually seemed well made, and were definitely a step above the kitchen knives you find in most stores and the ones they try to sell on TV. I've never seen any of their folding or hunting knives,they're probably pretty nice too. I just don't like all the bull****.

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This is kind of strange. I'd never heard of Cutco until just 2 or 3 nights ago. Had a call, but nobody was on the line. Checked caller ID, and saw, "Cutco Cutlery." Now, I run into this.

Hadn't read the second post, or might have saved myself the bother of the e-mail I just sent them, asking about what steel, etc. I can't believe they're using the Hoover vacuum cleaner sales method in this day and time, but whatever.

440A, huh?
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Have to admit was put off by their BS that no serrations can be resharpened except their "Double D". Heck, there's even a tool out now for sharpening CS serrations. As was said, BS.

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I have a Cutco paring knife that I received as a gift. Great handle ergonomics, I don't know if it's good or bad as kitchen knives go, it seems to hold it's edge pretty well.

It says Olean, NY on the blade. Isn't that where Camillus is, or are there a lot of knife makers in that town?
 
Camillus is in Camillus, NY - near Syracuse. Olean, NY is near Jamestown, and is the home of Ka-Bar. The whole area is loaded with manufacturers; Queen, Ka-Bar, Case, Camillus, Cutco, Schrade to name a few.

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It's not the pace of life that concerns me, It's the sudden stop at the end.
 
If I am remembering this right I Cutco sells their knives via Multi Level Marketing. Back a few years ago when I was a college student desperate for money I answered an ad and found myself at an "interview" for a job that turned out to be a MLM sales pitch to sell a line of knives and other similar tools.

Now that I've looked at their website I'm almost sure its the same company. Notice that in order to buy their product you contact them and they put you in touch with a sales person from your region who will contact you to set up a "presentation". As with almost all MLM scams they aren't nearly as interested in selling you knives as they are "signing you up".

As I recall...and this was before I was interested in knives much...they appeared to me to be "As seen on TV" kind of stuff. They are mostly "saws" not knives in that they are as I recall finely serrated edges. Think Ginsu.

At the same time, if it works for you thats great but I think that in this case most of the people who find this range of knives an improvement over their own kitchen knives have never owned a good kitchen knife.
 
Ka-Bar and Cutco are owned by the same company.

So, does that bode ill for Ka-Bar or good for Cutco?

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Thanks, Sgt Mike! I didn't realize that Camillus was a town also... Never been to NY, but I've heard upstate NY is pretty nice.
 
You're welcome, Swede. NY takes a bad rap because of people's preconcieved notions about the cities and the taxes, but in all actuality, it is pretty nice Upstate. We have plenty of mountains, rivers, lakes, and streams to play in. The weather's pretty severe at times though, especially in the winter near the Great Lakes. Heck, we still have some areas where you can walk 20 miles in any direction and not find a paved road.
The state has vast areas of public use lands, large populations of game critters (including rather large whitetail deer and black bear), great fishing, and very few poisonous snakes. Now, if we could only get rid of Hillary....


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It's not the pace of life that concerns me, It's the sudden stop at the end.
 
cutco is great quality knives and the company is not mlm. there are actually several different comanies, Cutco (the one that makes the kitchen knives, garden tools, some hunting, sporting and fishing knives, and sewing scissors, and cookware) Ka-Bar (the more specialized hunting and sporting knives) and Vector ( the sales division for Cutco) and they are under Alcas the parent company. back to not being a mlm, vector just hires people to sell Cutco much like walmart hires people to work in their store. they don't go to your house and try to get you to work for them. no they just show you a product that you can buy that will be with you for the rest of your life, is of very good quality and has a great guarentee. i should know, i am a customer. email me if you gots any questions
 
My folks still use, as their primary kitchen cutlery, a set of CUTCO knives received as a wedding gift about forty years ago. It features the then "revolutionary" Thomas Lamb handle and included hunting and fishing bonus knives. Let me say that I learned early in my game-getting life that serrations suck for skinning a squirrel or for filleting a bass. These CUTCO bonuses borrowed from dad were quickly substituted with more appropriate edges, but the kitchen set served constantly and competantly for longer than I've been around. We did manage to break the smallest paring knife at the hilt. The tip is missing from the large parer and the hunting blade, and my mother will never let me forget that I lost her butcher knife when I borrowed it for a picnic.

I also had a poor deluded friend get sucked into the door-to-door cutlery career. I sat in on his pitch to a mutual friend and basically made his job a nightmare. He didn't appreciate that I was preparing him for a worst case scenario.

I guess my conclusion is that the knives are much better than the marketing, but not good enough to make me sit through a sales pitch.
 
hey, with the broken pieces you can send them back and get them replaced. the ones with the broken tips can probably be replaced for free. i don't know how you broke the paring knife, but that might have to be paid for to get replaced. about 20 bucks though, so not that bad. and the fillet knife has a straight edge that c-uts really well, it doesn't have the double-d edge. just call 1-800-828-0448 to get the knives fixed.
 
I've got a set of Cutco steak knives and a couple
of other larger bladed kitchen knives from them.
Their double D cutting edge is very sharp and if
my memory is correct they will resharpen them for
free if you send them to the company. They're
probably the tops for kitchen knives.
My only complaint is that they're a bit expensive,
but I wouldn't trade the few I have for anything.
(well maybe some things, but not much) They're
wonderful to use.
 
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