Machax Prototype

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caver2

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I have a Machax prototype knife. It is not like any other I have see here. Has leather sheath. Still as new.
I got it from Ethan Becker in the past.
He, I guess, watches over this part of the forum, so I am hoping he will get back to me.
Ray Setteur (passed away) and I was at your Home in Ohio back about the time of The CMI deal.
I am living in Fentress County Tn. at this time. Hope you get back to your caving roots.
I see no way of putting image in post. note at bottom said no attachments
 
for pictures... see that icon that looks like a mountain? click it. copy/paste the URL to your picture. clicky. done!

it will add these [IMG] URL HERE [/IMG] tags.

or you can just post the URL to the image raw. to do that, btw, you'll have to host it at someplace like http://www.imageshack.us/ if you haven't already.

or mail one of us the pictures ;)

SHOW ME! :)


Bladite
 
caver2 said:
I have a Machax prototype knife. It is not like any other I have see here. Has leather sheath. Still as new.
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sounds intriguing :)

afaik, there are two styles of leather sheaths: one brown (bottom) which most closely resembles the later eagle creek sheath (top), and of course, the black leather sheeth:

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any of those look familiar?


Bladite
 
I know it is prototype, the ? is it one of a kind.
it is shaped like bottom model It has a wood handle with 6 brass rivets .

Sheath is black leather. it looks like the brown sheath
He said at the time, sheath in production model was not to be leather .

One thing my spyware programs ect is blocking this site . I can get the "yellow letter" to comes up with "insert image". after I turn some things off
I still can't see to attach jpg
I have only been on this for 2 days, things here are not what my other forum is like, with them you just copy and paste a JPG, done


If he doesn't get back to me. will post my junk e-mail address

thanks for your reply
 
you click "insert image" (the mountain picture icon)

it asks you to paste in a .JPG url (http:// ... ), enter the URL of your JPG and click ok. it does the rest.

or you can just cut and paste the URL into the body of you message, and at least we'll see the URL and can click it ourselves.

good luck

the model with the rivets sounds like something he told me about, that had a walnut handle, with some brass rivets. not sure if it's one of a kind (maybe have seen pictures of two)...

something like this i think:
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Bladite
 
hI
>> you click "insert image" (the mountain picture icon)

As I said I see no mountain picture pic icon. I do see yellow card that when touched show insert image, at top of this frame.

As I said it has 6 brass rivets brown wood handle. On one side of handle its stamped "Becker Machax"
On the other side
"BK&T
Cincinnati USA
This was where he lived at the time

The black Sheath has "BROMMELAND' stamped on back and Becker Machax on front by snap.
 
caver2 said:
As I said I see no mountain picture pic icon. I do see yellow card that when touched show insert image, at top of this frame.
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that's the one. click it!

you probably also need to have javascript turned on for that to work.


Bladite
 
I give up.
if you want to e-mail me at nsscaver2@yahoo.com and I will attach pic. and you can post. I will try to have better picture in a few days. I will be off line in 1 hour till evening

This is my junk e-mail so if it get flooded no big deal
 
You must have the photo "hosted" at a site like Photobucket, Flickr, Picasa, etc.

As a registered user, I don't think you have access to attachments.

Your best bet is to email the pic to someone who can post it.
 
I sent picture to Bladite, I sent it to him from my real e-mail account.He should post.
I have other e-mail in my yahoo account from this site but. Yahoo mail was down last night and today when i try to read e-mails get a 999 error Took me 15 mins to get Bladite e-mail up. Will get back to all that sent me e-mail.
Thanks
 
here we go!

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awesome vintage goodness


Bladite
 
Bladite thanks for posting the image

I would think "BROMMELAND' stamped on back was the sheath maker ? Is this who made all the sheaths ? They show up on Google
I "hopeful" That this is only knife set like this. Than you knife collectors can cry in your beer :)

My yahoo. account is still down , will check on it later
thanks again
 
caver2 said:
Bladite thanks for posting the image

I would think "BROMMELAND' stamped on back was the sheath maker ? Is this who made all the sheaths ? They show up on Google
I "hopeful" That this is only knife set like this. Than you knife collectors can cry in your beer :)

My yahoo. account is still down , will check on it later
thanks again
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according to Ethan, iirc, fewer than 24 of those sheaths were made. i have one at least :)

i'm aware of 3 original wood handled MachAxes, but none with pins like that. have pictures of 2. the other one was sold by indiansilver on ebay a while ago (see above 3:43 am post) for about $95 iirc.

lessee... rare of the rares... less than 25 or so warriors iirc. i was told 50 at one point, but then told it was probably more like 25-30... who can say ;) interestingly, they got full spead advertising in the old marketing literature in the old Cutlery Shoppe Catalogs. i've held 3 and owned 2 but now 1. squeaky rare :)

speaking of literature, between my collecting, and Ethan supplying me with some goods, i've got a LOT of the old literature up. there are a few blades listed therein that i've never seen - experimental? tactuls in particular.

as well, there's a "one of a kind" camillus tactool on ebay, that someone is selling for $650 ;) hard to tell about that one. factory second or line pull or something? bueller? hope it's worth that price for someone :)

mmm, a few BK08s were put out there, maybe 5-8. haven't heard of one of those changing hands. yet.

pretty rare are the hard chrome machax, warriors, and campanions. only seen a handful of those. own a few...

also kinda rare are some prototype neckers. sweet things.

ETA: oh right, there's a BK12 as well. mighty rare :)

but yours is probably in the "under 25" very rare category for sure - just guessing based on the number of those unique leather sheaths meade. possibly/probably fewer. only Ethan can tell us.

take care of it :)


Bladite
 
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here are two more photos from Caver2:

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Bladite
 
and two more!


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(keep them coming!)


Bladite
 
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