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Puma knives
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I occasionally carry a Puma stockman with stag scales.
It wasn't my favorite when I first got it, but it does have very nice scales and it has grown on me.
I posted about it after I bought it.
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I bought one of these because I really liked the way it looked .I paid quite a high price for it . It's sharp but there is virtually no backspring tension . The blades will open and close too easily and with no snap .The blade play is the worst I've seen
I think it has the words "hand made " on it .Well I don't know whose hand made this knife but he /she sure needs to learn about q.c.
oupa
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Black box Puma knives are of dubious origin.
Some are made in Spain...others - who knows where.
Sadly they are a very poor imitation of what they once were.
I contacted Puma in Germany once with a question about a knife made in the 1970's.
Their answer was that there is nobody there that can remember the knives from that era.
So much for the company's heritage.
Sad really.
This "Global Village" crap is destroying the very character of western countries.
Dirk
Some are made in Spain...others - who knows where.
Sadly they are a very poor imitation of what they once were.
I contacted Puma in Germany once with a question about a knife made in the 1970's.
Their answer was that there is nobody there that can remember the knives from that era.
So much for the company's heritage.
Sad really.
This "Global Village" crap is destroying the very character of western countries.
Dirk
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Amen brother! I got a similar response when I contacted Mauser about a 1916 M98 I inherited from my grandfather.
Around what year did Puma begin to go down the tubes?
oupa
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The slide began a few years before the bloodline of the original family ended in 1986.
"1986 Oswald von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf dies and leaves an economically highly profitable and internationally recognized enterprise behind. 1991 Sale of PUMA-Werk to the Solinger family Hindrichs. 1995 Harald Lauer, already active in the enterprise since the end of the seventies, becomes Managing director of PUMA-Werk. Under his management new production methods are forced, e.g. CNC controllers and laser technology. 1998 Sale to businessman Heiner Hiepass-Aryus and removal to the modern industrial area "Auferhöhe". 2003 Next to the classic line PUMA offers its customers a series of very qualitative knives in traditional design under the label "PUMA IP" ( PUMA International Production)".
"1986 Oswald von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf dies and leaves an economically highly profitable and internationally recognized enterprise behind. 1991 Sale of PUMA-Werk to the Solinger family Hindrichs. 1995 Harald Lauer, already active in the enterprise since the end of the seventies, becomes Managing director of PUMA-Werk. Under his management new production methods are forced, e.g. CNC controllers and laser technology. 1998 Sale to businessman Heiner Hiepass-Aryus and removal to the modern industrial area "Auferhöhe". 2003 Next to the classic line PUMA offers its customers a series of very qualitative knives in traditional design under the label "PUMA IP" ( PUMA International Production)".