First Case knife for me

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Picked this up recently at thrift store. You can see from the pics there was a substance on the blade that I originally thought was blood. but after a good hot water cleaning it didn't come off. Then I tried mineral spirits and 0000 steel wool and it still wouldn't come off. Might have been epoxy but it has pitted the blade somehow and I had to use a dremel sanding tool the fiberous kind and this is what was underneath. Otherwise the knife is in excellent shape with solid walk and talk and no blade movement at all. I am also curious about this one dot marking, I have looked at the tang identification pages and I am still unsure. Thanks for any help.



 
Very nice knife, I would like to find a case like this one locally at a thrift shop, pawn shop, or gunshow. I have only had one case and do not know where it went. Can not help you with the marking sorry. Good find, keep on trying to clean it up, it will definitely make a good user knife.
 
The tang stamp dates it to 1999. That format was used from 1997-1999, starting with 3 dots and they pull one each year.
 
Looks to be made in 1989. The lettering style is from 1980-1989, with dots denoting the year it was made, with a dot subtracted for each successive year. For example, a 1980 would have ten dots, and a 1985 would have five dots.

Edit to add, I didn't see the earlier post and certainly can be wrong. Here is a link to what led to to believe that it was made in 1989:
http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/wr_case/about_case_knives/date_identification.php
 
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I'd say 1989. In 1990, 1991, and 1992, Case actually stamped the year on the tang. Sometime in 1993 (perhaps all of 1993) Case went back to the dot identification tang stamps.
 
bonky said:
Looks to be made in 1989. The lettering style is from 1980-1989, with dots denoting the year it was made, with a dot subtracted for each successive year. For example, a 1980 would have ten dots, and a 1985 would have five dots.
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What Russell said:thumbup:

Paul
 
Thanks for the info on the date, any idea what that substance may have been? Will epoxy do that?
 
PCL said:
Thanks for the info on the date, any idea what that substance may have been? Will epoxy do that?
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Lots of stuff will eat blade steel. If the previous owner got something on the blade, it hardened without being removed, then sat for years, it very well could have both eaten/pitted the blade and hardened to the point of not being able to be removed but by force. Hard telling, I guess.
 
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