Queen Pocket Knife with Takesi-Packs

[Rover-Friskey]

Bought a couple of beautiful Queen traditional slip joint pocket knives. All came in boxes with magnet closures and all had a 1" x 2" strip of Takesi-Pack. As best I can determine they are anti-microbial strips often stuck to the inside of a shoe box to prevent mold on leather. Anyone have any experience placing them in knife boxes/containers? I am familiar with Anti-rust VCI paper sheets and Zerust Rust Prevention Plastabs, and of course silica gel desiccant packs, but Takesi-packs are new to me.
Thanks,
RV

 

[meako]

Sounds like some serious packaging.
How bout the knives?

 

[Rover-Friskey]

The Queen knifes I have 6 of. I would rate them a bit below Rough Ryders, of which I have 142. Rough Ryder may be a bit less expensive on average than the Queen. I have 80 Case knives, which I would rate perhaps a bit above Rough Ryder, and about 6x costlier. And i have 9 Bokers. 4 Tree Brands, made in Germany, and the others Argentina. Plus some miscellaneous brands, including Buck, Schrade, and Hen & Rooster, plus 5 "new" Gerbers from the 1980's and 90's. As a boy, many years ago [ will be 73 in February], I wanted a Tree Brand knife. When I was about 12 a local Hardware store closed and I was able to get a new Tree Brand at a good discount. When I later began collecting I started with....Tree Brand! Attached are pics of my traditional slip joints. I enter each knife in a database with over 200 fields, save the boxes and wrap, place a very light coat of 3-in-1 oil on the blade and springs, and place each knife in a 4x1x1 Clear Gumball Tube Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), as shown in an attached pic. For longer knife I combine 2 boxes. I place on the box silica gel pack and a strip of Anti-rust VCI paper sheets. Put a few Zerust Rust Prevention Plastabs, in each drawer, and monitor humidity in each drawer also. The boxes and the PET boxes I number.

 

[waynorth]

You are very organized!!

 

[Carboniferous]

The Queen knifes I have 6 of. I would rate them a bit below Rough Ryders, of which I have 142. Rough Ryder may be a bit less expensive on average than the Queen. I have 80 Case knives, which I would rate perhaps a bit above Rough Ryder, and about 6x costlier. And i have 9 Bokers. 4 Tree Brands, made in Germany, and the others Argentina. Plus some miscellaneous brands, including Buck, Schrade, and Hen & Rooster, plus 5 "new" Gerbers from the 1980's and 90's. As a boy, many years ago [ will be 73 in February], I wanted a Tree Brand knife. When I was about 12 a local Hardware store closed and I was able to get a new Tree Brand at a good discount. When I later began collecting I started with....Tree Brand! Attached are pics of my traditional slip joints. I enter each knife in a database with over 200 fields, save the boxes and wrap, place a very light coat of 3-in-1 oil on the blade and springs, and place each knife in a 4x1x1 Clear Gumball Tube Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), as shown in an attached pic. For longer knife I combine 2 boxes. I place on the box silica gel pack and a strip of Anti-rust VCI paper sheets. Put a few Zerust Rust Prevention Plastabs, in each drawer, and monitor humidity in each drawer also. The boxes and the PET boxes I number.

Looks like a great display! Very well organized, and I agree with your comments about Queen, Rough Ryder, and Case. It sounds like you have the newer Queen knives in the red boxes, made in China with 440C? Some of the old USA Queen knives were as nice as any GEC but they had hit-and-miss quality control near the end before going out of business. Usually really nice cover material and a good final polish but sometimes serious fitment issues and very poor edge grinds. I think D2 after 2005 or so, usually (I think) 440C before that. The Queen #06L with amber carved bone stag would be my all-time favorite knife, but every example I've owned (bought and sold like four of them over the years, somehow managed to stupidly lose one in the midst of moving several times in several years still bitter about it, I think three with ACBS, one with zebrawood) had blade rap.

 

[Rover-Friskey]

Yes, red boxes, 440C. Almost all my knives i have bought in the past 2-3 years. As far as knife steels go I only know what I read, as I am not good at sharpening nor am I a metallurgist. I love the look of mirror polished blades! I have yet to sed a knife that matches the value of Rough Ryder. My goal is to more objectively appraise the fit, finish, and blade characteristics including sharpness. The only practicable sharpness tester I am aware of the Edge on Up tester. From my observations I think it is difficult with the Edge On Up to maintain the correct angle to insure the medium is being cut and not sliced. Also, the test is of only a small section of the blade edge, equal to the diameter of the wire. Until then my observations are mostly subjective. I must look up the Queen #06L.

 

[meako]

Great collection Rover-Friskey I get you on the qual/price ratio...Rosecraft lately has upped the game.
Unfortunately I still have to ferret through tackle boxes to find "whatever happened to that....."
Cheers

 

[Rover-Friskey]

Cheers meako. I plan to get a Rosewood. Do they have a sheepsfoot? Also have a Kershaw and a Cold Steel. Will be getting a few more Case soon. I was able to get a good deal on nice top & bottom tool chests from Harbor Freight. Room for knives, stones, etc. I am an Industrial Engineer and am inclined to pursue order and documentation. [hence my Excel database with over 200 fields].