Old School or New School, what're ya collectin'?

T. Erdelyi

T. Erdelyi

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Are you collectin' the old traditionals or ar you collectin' the mondern variations?

I like the F&F on the new traditionals, Queen and CSC are doin' a great job on the traditional front but I still prefer the pre sixties knives when it comes to the old style.

I find them more affordable for the most part and the variety is mind blowin'.

What do you like, old school, or new school?

BTW I like the old Queens, Camillus, and love the Robesons.
 
I'm repeatedly seduced by both. The internet exposes the ones I never knew about, and even makes them accessible. Ebay makes them fun to even just watch. "Resistance is futile" [the Borg].:D Regards, ss.
 
I was Old School, Schrade Old Timers and Uncle Henrys mostly...For the last year its been New School with new Case variants. And today a S&M Wildcat Driller.

A little bit of everything I guess sums me up...although reading more of this forum has really helped me cut down on my folding tacticals.
 
Mostly old,I am waiting on 3 as we speak,2 Camillus a Muskrat and a Stockman and a Robeson trapper.I've got a couple of newer Kershaws but most everything that I own is at least 25 to 30 years old.
 
Anything that catches my eye. My last several purchases have been:

Two customs, newly made, traditional designs
Three Victorinox, current production
Rigid Executive Series stockman (Old Timer imitation) closeout price and curiosity got the best of me
Robeson/Queen sleeveboard

and the latest, a pre-WWII Bruckmann from Germany

-Bob
 
heres two i recently got from VCM3 along with a charles may pocket rocket. they`re his photos . lately i have been buying busses , swamprats , scrapyard knives , etc, but also some classics. i have a fairly extensive queen collection thanks to VCM3.
 

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another nice one
 

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Strictly old. I haven't purchased a knife made after about 1940 in a very long time.
 
Into old school, but most of my purchases are new school. I guess that makes me slightly off center from medium school. :D
 
I would be New School. I use my knives and like using something nice. Most of the really nice old school knives or kind of expensive for users. Larry
 
GigOne said:
Into old school, but most of my purchases are new school. I guess that makes me slightly off center from medium school. :D
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I gotta quit hanging around this guy. :cool:
 
Mostly old school.

Over the last several years I've been drawn more and more to stuff that grandad would be familiar with. Knives, guns, clothes. Slip joint pocket knives, lever action rifles, and real fiber cloth. Cotton in summer and wool in winter. No synthetic polyester for this child.

I find myself using sodbusters and Opinels alot for my cutting chores.
 
Old slipjoints are very hard to come by in Argentina, since they were never very popular. Penknives were common at the beginning of the 20th century, though.

Besides, I'm more a user than a true collector (although I've got hundreds of knives), so I buy new knives mostly. Right now Case makes up over 90% of my slipjoint collection.
 
I'd say outta the 300+ knives I have 10% are modern tacticals and customs 10% are modern traditionals,(newer Cases, Queens, and Schrades) leavin' 80% for traditional patterned Congress, Trappers, lots of Pens and Jacks, the required BSA & GSA knives.

Those knives range from my early 1920s Case Pen and Camillus Timber Scribe to my old Kent and LF&C Pen knives.

Most of them were made and carried long before I was born and some before my Grand Father was born.

It's the old ones that call to me the most, the ones with character, the ones with the silent histories leavin' one to speculate as to the owner and relationship with his tool, some have worry spots worn into the scales where the previous owner would rub it when he held what was obviously his most prized pocket possesion.

I had a Camillus Lineman Knife with about 30 parallel lines scribed into the bolster, this drove me nuts tryin' to figure out why someone would deface a knife like that, I found out later from an electrician I worked with that his father did the same thing and used it to sharpen his pencil lead.
 
I've been going for tacticools for the past few years now, productions mostly. Now, I like all the traditionals and a few customs. I have an old Craftsman electrician, an old Spencer marlinspike, and an old W36 Western fb. I also have the new Queen cocobolo slippies. Regardless of age, if it catches my eye, I might have to have it. The stuff that is older than me, but not an antique, usually has the best price and condition, and is cheaper than the new stuff and really old stuff. Gotten a couple Schrades that way.
 
Hmmmm. I carry a Peanut. It is an old school pattern, but it's only like 3 years old. I've heard folks on here talk about how their grandfathers carried Peanuts, which is why I'm guessing it is an old pattern. What does that make me?
 
New school versions of old school patterns, how's that?

I'm not savvy enough of a collector to buy truly old knives and not get burnt. Oh, I've bought a couple of cheap little things, but I'd wouldn't attempt to buy a "classic" in this market. So I buy current production models of patterns I like. I'm not going to make any money at it, but then, most people aren't.

Lately my taste has been running to fixed blades, and customs. But I've been spending a lot of money on my firearms addiction, and consequently haven't been buying a lot of knives. Strangely enough, the guns I've been buying are all "old school" too, being single action revolvers in this most recent phase. And reloading gear, too. Shooting .45 Colt gets expensive...

-- Sam
 
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