Pacific Cutlery

[brkd]

I'm new to the BF community. I recently found an old copy of Jeff Imada's Balisong Manual from 1984. It speak of Pacific Cutlery and their trademark on the balisong name. I see references to PC knives on the forum.
Is PC still around? Have they changed names? It seems their knives are well regarded.

 

[Dawkind]

PC is now Benchmade in Oregon and welcome aboard!

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[2Sharp]

Hello and a warm welcome!

A short explaination : (i hope i'm right here...)
1. Bali-song USA became...
2. Pacific Cutlery which became, in part...
2. Benchmade, which is the only part still "alive", and kickin' especially with the new model 42, which i don't have yet

I think if you use the search function you'll find more detailed information.

Or one of the x-tremely knowledgeable people will step in and either correct me or say that i was right

Whoa! Dawkind beat me to it!
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[This message has been edited by 2Sharp (edited 07-19-2000).]

 

[Gollnick]

Pacific Cutlery went bankrupt. Les DeAsis then took a job as, as I recall VP of Marketing or something like that, with another cutlery company, Benchmade. Benchmade was very much a going concern (though not making balisongs) when Mr. DeAsis joined. Les did bring the Bali-Song design and the product line to Benchmade. Eventually, Les did buy Benchmade.

So, in some respects, Benchmade is a continuation of PC, but in many respects it is a different company.




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Chuck
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[brkd]

Thanks for the info. I suspected that there was a connection between PC and Bencmade. he obvious butterfly logo was the subtle tipoff.

Where can a person look for slightly more esoteric balisongs or butterfly knifes besides Benchmade?

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