Help Needed Identifying This Taylor Cutlery Model

[Packrat007]

I'm new here but was hoping someone might be able to help me identify the model of this Taylor Cutlery folder?

I've exhausted my Google-fu abilities and have yet to even come close to an answer.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I picked it up at an estate sale.

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[Arathol]

Taylor is an importer of generic Chinese made knives of all sorts. This one is some kind of mini copperhead folding razor / one armed man knife.

 

[meako]

No offence but this is me when I see dymondwood

 

[afishhunter]

Are both blades serrated, or is it the lighting?
A "1 armed bandit"/razor knife with a electrical or pruning blade secondary.
No idea what the model number is.

My Taylor is a post 2004 red bone Hammer Brand 3 blade gunboat canoe whittler.
Made in China, but very high quality. No gaps anywhere, even grinds, well heat treated 440A blades, no wiggly wobbly blades, the blades all have a smooth pull around a "5"...
My only dislike: The blades are mirror polished fingerprint and smudge magnets.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Taylor is an importer of generic Chinese made knives of all sorts. This one is some kind of mini copperhead folding razor / one armed man knife.

Is this the same Taylor cutlery ?

What I do know is that very similar knives to this if not the same knife were offered by Parker cutlery and Frost cutlery in the 80's.

 

[dsutton24]

Is this the same Taylor cutlery ?

What I do know is that very similar knives to this if not the same knife were offered by Parker cutlery and Frost cutlery in the 80's.

I don't think there's a link between Taylor and the others you mention, but their business model was very similar. They imported knives from Japan, then China. All three may have been buying knives from the same manufacturers.

 

[Arathol]

They have been around for a while, mid 1970s, and I think Taylor started bringing in knives from China in the early 1990s, before that it was Japan.

 

[Hickory n steel]

I don't think there's a link between Taylor and the others you mention, but their business model was very similar. They imported knives from Japan, then China. All three may have been buying knives from the same manufacturers.

I know there isn't any kind of connection, just that this knife is probably from the 80's.

 

[Hickory n steel]

No offence but this is me when I see dymondwood
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You're thinking of " Pakkawood ".
Diamondwood is the stuff Buck used for about 20 years which looks way better.

 

[Modoc ED]

Dymondwood (SP?)

 

[Arathol]

Pakkawood, Dymondwood, same thing. Both are trade names for a man made composite material that consists of laminations of thin wood veneers that are impregnated with resin. The multi color green/brown/red/yellow is usually associated with those less expensive foreign knives made overseas.