The KA-BAR Story Episode 1 - In the Beginning

Watching it today for sure! Thanks for the great work, KABAR!

EDIT: Watched it and really liked the style of the narration. The acting was pretty good too! Will definitely be sending this first installment to friends and family (wasn't that a given?)! :)
 
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Interesting and well done! Good enough to have been on the History Channel! :thumbsup:
 
In one of the great ironies on the day this documentary is released I am sitting in a hotel room in North Carolina after a day of making sales calls over a hundred years after Wallace Brown did the same. You don't get that opportunity at too many companies any more. Thanks for watching, everyone!
 
Very well done!! You certainly have a very professional production there!! I like Mr Stitt's cap and vest outfit striving for the early 1900s look. I kind of laughed at the guy forging a fixed blade knife at what was supposed to be the Tidioute factory, I don't believe there was any such activity there back in the day. I don't think any fixed blade hunting knives were made at Tidioute and by that time factories punched out blades from sheet steel with dies, there was no hand forging of fixed blade blanks. One has to allow for a little "artistic license" though but a documentary should be pretty factual. I am eagerly awaiting all future episodes, dang I love history!!
 
gunsil said:
Very well done!! You certainly have a very professional production there!! I like Mr Stitt's cap and vest outfit striving for the early 1900s look. I kind of laughed at the guy forging a fixed blade knife at what was supposed to be the Tidioute factory, I don't believe there was any such activity there back in the day. I don't think any fixed blade hunting knives were made at Tidioute and by that time factories punched out blades from sheet steel with dies, there was no hand forging of fixed blade blanks. One has to allow for a little "artistic license" though but a documentary should be pretty factual. I am eagerly awaiting all future episodes, dang I love history!!
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I am glad you liked it. This was the hardest episode in terms of having hard evidence for the timeline. I spent a great deal of time in the Cattaraugus County archives and that is where much of this information came from. The Browns certainly had a taste for starting businesses and I found documents for companies we had never heard of before (particularly one in Seattle, WA, which I suspect may have been a sales company but the documents did not go in to detail.) There was nothing at all in the Warren County (Tidioute) archives outside of a few mentions of a "cutlery works". Reading through old Tidioute newspapers from the 1890s there were several articles about H.H. Cummings, who appeared to be a major local celebrity at the time, as well as ads for businesses owned by several men whose names were on the Articles of Incorporation for the Tidioute Cutlery Company in 1897. The move to Olean is where the historical timeline gets easier to track.
 
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