Tiny RFID Tags & Readers: Useful Embedded In Your Buck or Not?

[oregon]

I'd like, if it is not too expensive and doable without compromising the usefulness of the knife, product history useful to a collector embedded into my Buck knife. When/where was it made, materials used and history of that model, for example. The knife becomes its own spokesman, sort of, when placed in proximity to a reader..

Either the factory or a mangler or even the end user could implant such technology. It could be conveniently located under an acrylic window, like Larry The Cable Guy's picture is on the SMKW 110, so it could be recognized, removed and/or upgraded.

Would the erudite, question-fielding and generous forum members become obsolete?

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[DeSotoSky]

I'll pass on the microchip in my knife...... I'm afraid they are going to require it in my guns soon enough......

 

[Geddinight]

I adopted two adult cats. One was rfid chipped and one was not. While I was explaining to the dear woman I was getting the cats from how I didn't think it was a good thing to do, she injected the cat with a chip. I had no idea how simple it was. If he got lost, supposedly any vet could contact me. Would I like to know the history of my special Buck knife, you bet. I'd love to have an invisible chip incorporated into a custom shop or special run knife. I'd rather it be embedded some place where no one could see it.

I paid fifty dollars each for Roy Jinks, the Smith and Wesson historian, to research three old revolvers by serial number and write me when they left the factory, any special features and where it shipped to. I place a lot of value in those letters.

I would love to see Joe Houser or another special person at Buck be able to produce letters regarding special knives.

I would think the current date coding would suffice for run of the mill stuff.

 

[sitflyer]

Geddinight, your post inspires some interesting thoughts. I too have an adopted pet with a chip, and many pets have been re united because of them.
An embedded chip would be a unique identifier, and if a knife was stolen would carry with it this number unbeknownst to most thieves. This might actually be a viable way to tag high end items.
A small well on the inside grip could house them totally inconspicuously.
Most of these chips seem to only have a code that identifies it to a remotely stored database, so info could actually be added or amended if errors or omissions in the original data were discovered.

 

[shunsui]

Would you be buying the information in the tag or just renting it on a subscription basis ?

 

[oregon]

I'll pass on the microchip in my knife...... I'm afraid they are going to require it in my guns soon enough......

There are problems getting these to work alongside metal, which interferes with the signal. Good point that these could be used for evil, i.e., thieves with readers.

I adopted two adult cats. One was rfid chipped and one was not. While I was explaining to the dear woman I was getting the cats from how I didn't think it was a good thing to do, she injected the cat with a chip. I had no idea how simple it was. If he got lost, supposedly any vet could contact me. Would I like to know the history of my special Buck knife, you bet. I'd love to have an invisible chip incorporated into a custom shop or special run knife. I'd rather it be embedded some place where no one could see it.

I paid fifty dollars each for Roy Jinks, the Smith and Wesson historian, to research three old revolvers by serial number and write me when they left the factory, any special features and where it shipped to. I place a lot of value in those letters.

I would love to see Joe Houser or another special person at Buck be able to produce letters regarding special knives.

I would think the current date coding would suffice for run of the mill stuff.

Where is my knife and can I locate it with a protable reader? BCCI already archives data and gatekeeps access so this tag would just be a different key to the data.

Geddinight, your post inspires some interesting thoughts. I too have an adopted pet with a chip, and many pets have been re united because of them.
An embedded chip would be a unique identifier, and if a knife was stolen would carry with it this number unbeknownst to most thieves. This might actually be a viable way to tag high end items.
A small well on the inside grip could house them totally inconspicuously.
Most of these chips seem to only have a code that identifies it to a remotely stored database, so info could actually be added or amended if errors or omissions in the original data were discovered.

Is my knife a fake question might be answered by putting it near a reader. Perhaps, and this day may never come, one day online transactions will involve authentication via these tags and readers and not just luck or skilled application of knowledge.

Would you be buying the information in the tag or just renting it on a subscription basis ?

Oh boy. Good question. The tag is just an identifier. The data is located elsewhere, away from the item/knife. Perhaps the tag would be a part of the packaging and get lost after the original purchaser lost or disposed of the packaging.

 

[bertl]

It sounds like that could take some of the fun out of collecting.