Queen/Dan Burke Collaboration

cpirtle

cpirtle

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Have you guys seen the new Dan Burke collaboration with Queen? "The Real Cattle Knife"

I've got one reserved in my name through my local dealer. I talked to Queen the other day and they are planning for them to be shipped to distributors late in July, they are just coming back from being laser cut now.

Stainless liners, stainless bolsters, carved bone scales, BG-42 blades, should be a reall winner from the looks of it.

See it here
 
List is something near $500 from what I understand. Of course street price will probably be around 30-40% less than that.
 
Does anyone think that it's a little stubby?
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I thought so. I wondered whether the equal-end jack pattern handle makes it look stubby. What are the dimensions, cpirtle?
 
The stubby thing is interesting, I'm guessing this knife probably falls in the 3 1/2 to 3 3/4 range, about 70% of the older Cattle knives I've seen were in that range. This little fellow is very true to the original design.
 
CATTLE KNIFE.
The cattle knife has three blades for sure but one is always a leather punch [ or even a hoof pick occasionally ]
 
I vaguely remember 4" being the length I was given. To me the picture looks like it was not properly cropped/resized so it is out of proportion, other pictures of Cattle Knives I have seen look longer and thinner as well.

Ultimately I won't know for sure until I have one but I like the knife regardless.
 
WIL TERRY said:
CATTLE KNIFE.
The cattle knife has three blades for sure but one is always a leather punch [ or even a hoof pick occasionally ]
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Wil,
what you are thinking of is a cowboy trapper-trapper pattern, punch, hoof pick, 1 or 2 blades. Stockman and cattle knife are more or less synonymous-stockman refers to cattle "stock". I am looking for a good cowboy trapper, but it looks like custom built is the only way thats going to happen, which of course means it will have to wait a looong time.
 
Dijos said:
I am looking for a good cowboy trapper, but it looks like custom built is the only way thats going to happen, which of course means it will have to wait a looong time.
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Did you see this one?

$80 for 154cm blades, carbon steel punch.
 
Wil Terry - a punch may be commonly seen on cattle knives, but they are not a defining feature. Take a look at all the cattle knives shown on pp 284-287 of LG4. Roughly half have a punch.
 
Maybe it's just me, but that blade etch makes it look like something Frost would put out. :confused: :barf:

Paul
 
cpirtle said:
List is something near $500 from what I understand. Of course street price will probably be around 30-40% less than that.
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If anyone pays that much for a production slip joint...email me; I've got some swamp land you'd probably be interested in ;)
 
Don Adelfson said:
If anyone pays that much for a production slip joint...email me; I've got some swamp land you'd probably be interested in ;)
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I think you'd need to start a new thread for all of the Case/Bose owners to step forward so you could give them your sales pitch.

At ~$250 street price I don't think the price is out of line with other high end production collaborations.
 
cpirtle said:
At ~$250 street price I don't think the price is out of line with other high end production collaborations.
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I do...you can take a pair of Walmart jeans and put a fancy label on them and charge 4X what they're worth...the word "collaboration" in a knife description does the same thing. In both cases I would be paying a premium for a "name".
 
Tell me what makes them Wal Mart Jeans?

Is it the BG-42?
The stainless liners?
The stainless bolsters?

High end production collaborations, from my vast experience, are usually a cut above a companies normal run of the mill work.

You seem to think that if it's not custom it can't be worth a premium price. If that were true no one would be making limited run, high end collaboration pieces, and companies like Strider/CK&T/Chris Reeve/William Henry who do almost nothing but high end "non-custom" knives would have been out of business a long time ago.

I EDC either a $100 ATS-34 Schatt & Morgan or a $300 Ray Cover every day and the Schatt & Morgan piece has held up every bit as good as the Cover, it's just not as pretty doing it ;)
 
I agree with cpirtle. Look at Queen's in-house designs and then look at the Burke collaboration.

You may or may not like it, but it is distinctive. Design costs money.
 
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