Macho or Not So!!??

[Frailer]

That is simply a beautiful tool.

Glad I read through the thread a bit before posting, as I would have been accused of plagiarizing. These are my thoughts exactly.

When I see a tool, like this one, that was artfully made by a craftsman whose intention was to produce an object ideally suited to perform a specific task “beautiful” is the adjective that springs to mind.

 

[Old Engineer]

Who said I aint got no macho? I'll moidalise 'em.
But first I'd like you all to see my Mr Lincoln Rose.....when I moved to my new house this rose was hopelessly stalky and overgrown.
A good hard prune back to the wood and a spoonfull of rose food at the base...it pumped out 4 magnificent flowers one after the other ....during the middle of winter...not cold here....anyway...the point is ...they are the result of grafting....and thats what its all about...just wish you could smell them....delightful....
Cheers

Those Mr. Lincoln roses are indeed some of the finest fragrant roses . They are definitely in my top 3 .

waynorth I would consider your Ivory Budding Knife a Macho Knife for back in the day when it was made . Now I probably would not use it for fear of damaging the beauty of it .

Harry

 

[waynorth]

Nice Roses Meako and nice garden Harry!! My father and Grandmother would both have been proud of you two!! I have great gardening knives but grey thumbs!!

 

[Straitrazor]

I bought this Case Classic at least 20 years ago. ‘Prototype’ and ‘bark ivory’ are engraved on the blade. Presumably it was made from ‘pre-1989 ivory’ and is ‘1 of 1’. I paid a chunk of change (for a poor slob like me) & threw it into my knife sack. I also bought a few other Case Classic knives over the years that were sold to me as prototypes & salesman’s samples that (I hope) had genuine pre-ban ivory handles. I checked for authenticity the best I could with the tools & information available to me at the time. Ironically or stupidly enough, I was a Case dealer (very small time) at the time & I can’t recall contacting Case & inquiring. Anyone have any idea about Case making a few prototype Classics with elephant & other exotic handle materials when they were making Classics? I have a few elephant ivory, mastodon ivory, and a fair number of apple, red, and tiger coral handled Classcs purchased over a several year period when I temporarily took leave of my sanity & gathered a sack of knives that I fancied, such as Al Mars, Hattoris, Randalls, before the prices got crazy & they became unavailable altogether seemingly. I have no idea where to get valid information about these >20 & <50 yr old knives. Some of the stories I read on line of people being victims of con artists & then possibly unwittingly conning someone else when they resell their knives bothers me. I also wonder if the rider placed on my insurance policy is insuring a sack of toy knives. Maybe I need to go ahead and burn the place down NOW and beg for an insurance payout (& prison), rather than defraud some future buyer and get sent to the crossbar hotel for THAT. Six of one and half dozen of the other I guess. Lol.

 

[Straitrazor]

I bought this Case Classic at least 20 years ago. ‘Prototype’ and ‘bark ivory’ are engraved on the blade. Presumably it was made from ‘pre-1989 ivory’ and is ‘1 of 1’. I paid a chunk of change (for a poor slob like me) & threw it into my knife sack. I also bought a few other Case Classic knives over the years that were sold to me as prototypes & salesman’s samples that (I hope) had genuine pre-ban ivory handles. I checked for authenticity the best I could with the tools & information available to me at the time. Ironically or stupidly enough, I was a Case dealer (very small time) at the time & I can’t recall contacting Case & inquiring. Anyone have any idea about Case making a few prototype Classics with elephant & other exotic handle materials when they were making Classics? I have a few elephant ivory, mastodon ivory, and a fair number of apple, red, and tiger coral handled Classcs purchased over a several year period when I temporarily took leave of my sanity & gathered a sack of knives that I fancied, such as Al Mars, Hattoris, Randalls, before the prices got crazy & they became unavailable altogether seemingly. I have no idea where to get valid information about these >20 & <50 yr old knives. Some of the stories I read on line of people being victims of con artists & then possibly unwittingly conning someone else when they resell their knives bothers me. I also wonder if the rider placed on my insurance policy is insuring a sack of toy knives. Maybe I need to go ahead and burn the place down NOW and beg for an insurance payout (& prison), rather than defraud some future buyer and get sent to the crossbar hotel for THAT. Six of one and half dozen of the other I guess. Lol.

 

[waynorth]

I have bought a few Classics over the years. They started innocently enough, with an actual handful of prototypes being made by Bill who was then at Queen, but now owns GEC! Queen made the first ones, but as the years went by more "so-called" prototypes started to appear, and it was discovered that Jim Parker (deceased) was behind all kinds of cutlery flim-flam, besides the "Classics", fooling some of the growing population of collectors. Some of the knives are well made, but their reputations were over-blown. Ask Bernie Levine who probably knows more about it than anyone if he's willing to cover the (now old) story once again!!
But for God's sake don't burn anything!!