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Hey Folx,

(this is part 1, part two can be found at: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6546898)

and a "roll call"
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=608738

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How about we find and post (with stickies?) all the prior spiffy goodness that has been created on BF about Becker Knife and Tool.

I'll start with:

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and

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:)

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more later :)

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Great pics! I'm drooling over those BK kukris, hehe!

Congrats on having your very own forum, Ethan!
 
Is it just me, or does Ethan look a bit like the actor Paul Giamatti? Or is it the other way around? Anyway, if they were to make a movie of your life, Ethan, I say he'd play you--at least, how you look in this photo--bang on.

Congrats on the BK&T forum.

Matt
 
Here's a few inspiring pictures

My standard stock photo. One of these years, I'll do better (Guyon keeps taunting me):

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The first warrior I got my hands on, tragically, this one had metal inclusions and cracks - either previously abused or was a factory reject/second along with many of the others being sold by those guys that got a consignment of old old Becker stuff. I returned this one. So, it's out there...

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Some classics:

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and would you believe I have even more now? Need new pictures

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a lovely mess of variants on the campanions:

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a few in the pile...

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i think my next project, is to get all the unique k-bars, including the once and future Machax, and redo my photos then. perhaps a mess of micarta for my duplicates. many many duplicates

oh, and hey, the ORIGINAL tac-tul: i've NEVER seen one of these, even though i have two other variations:

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Hey Bladite...

As usual I am speechless...Please PM me your phone number...I have a deal for you!!!

All Best...

ethan
 
Magnum Camps...

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Not mine, but an interesting unstamped Camillus Magnum Camp...

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Guyon your Becker Collection is Awesome...Great Job ! makes me wish all the BK&T that gone thru my hands I would of kept...thanks for sharing !!!
 
I'm not sure if this'll work, but I grabbed all the Becker pages from the Camillus website and popped them into a Word document before the site went down. Let's see if I can supply a link to that document that is downloadable... Someone let me know if it works.

http://home.earthlink.net/~datastore/data/camilluswebsite.doc

Someone might be able to convert them back into html or just images that can be posted here.
 
Literature History: Scans in my personal files... Some of these were handled and sent to me by Ethan directly (I would have to guess)

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Figured out a good way to pull the knife images from the Word doc. Saving this post for those...

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I've often quoted this post by Phil Gibbs. I think it deserves to go in this thread, and I hope that the heat treat on the Kabars are up to snuff when it comes to Phil's standards. :D

Phil Gibbs said:
Carbon V definately came first. It was the brainchild of the Metal God, Dan Maragni, & was, in my opinion, what put Cold Steel on the map all those years ago.

When Cold Steel came to Camillus to make their carbon steel knives, they did not want to pay for the vast amount of steel that had to be purchased in order to have a custom steel made to their specifications.
Consequently Cold Steel agreed that Camillus could also use the steel (& pay them a royalty, I believe) but could not call it Carbon V.

I came up with the name 0170-6C, based on an almost close (but NOT) steel produced by Sharron Steel called 0170-6.

All this is historical trivia.

The real issue for those who understand is Heat Treatment!

The reason that the Camillus Beckers perform so well is that Dan Maragni set up a system of heat treatment at Camillus for the Cold Steel knives, & oversaw almost every batch of knives produced. What we learnt about heat treating Cold Steel seeped over to the Becker knives.
All that is now lost forever!

In my humble opinion, the values of the Camillus Beckers may not rise significantly in the collector market, but for those interested in a high performance user, get them while you can. Without Maragni's methods, I don't care what a future maker of Beckers uses, they will just be well designed carbon steel knives covered in powder coat!

I dearly hope I am wrong & the new maker will consider trying to improve their methods. Time will tell..............
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Also: here are some links to BF prior articles and threads - eat them up:

A message from Ethan Becker:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=499678

old beckers (by me) with lots of pictures in thread (again)
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=472410

article on that warrior i bought and returned:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=454735

a little becker love:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=412202

the becker machax:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=435766


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