Traditional W.R. Case or other premium brand traditional pocket knives?

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I vaguely remember reading an article somewhere that said W.R. Case was making a line of traditional pockets knives with premium materials and that they were affiliated with a custom knife maker sort of like the CRK&T line. I looked around the W.R. Case website but, didn't find anything terribly helpful so, I might have the company name mixed up.

Does anybody have any experience with or have good links to, competitively priced mass market "premium" traditional pocket knives (stuff in the $100 range, not $300 customs)?
 
I agree. Schatt & Morgans are very nice, especially those that were made a few years ago with ATS-34 master blades. (All other blades were made in 440A.) While newer issues of S&M's are just as "pretty" I am not as enthusiastic about them, especially the current crop, with their 420-series steel blades. Blue Grass offers some nice carbon-steel knives in this price range, too, that I understand are "private label" made for them by Queen.
 
The premium production slipjoints that I have handled that impress me most are the recent Marbles made for them by Queen.

I have a large Stockman with red jigged bone scales and carbon steel blades that is very nice.

The fit and finish are impeccable, the blades are perfectly ground, the action is great...they are a super knife.
 
I have a very nice case mini trapper with red jigged bone scales and a damascus blade that I picked from the knifecentre just before Christimas.

Ok the damascus is not devin thomas but for $60 I thought it was a very good buy.
 
The action on my S&M trapper is superb. The fit and finish, however, is no better than on my Queen d2, at half the price.

I prefer the Queen. Excellent F&F, very good walk and talk, and superb blades.

You can get a Lg. Cocobolo stockman for $55. You can't beat that.

Coonskinner, any links to those Marbles? They sound great. I know AG Russell has a few models left, at hefty prices. Is that even the same line of knives?
 
As far as I can tell, the Marbles knives that A. G. Russell sells are (or at least were) standard offerings, except for the handle material. I believe that info on current Marbles models, along with Queen and Schatt & Morgan knives, can be obtained at www.marblesknives.com. (Maybe you will be more successful at getting the site to come up than I just was.)

If you are hunting around A.G.'s site, anyway, be sure to look up his selections of "old stock" Schatt & Morgans. There are interesting knives, there, and the prices go from "not half bad" to "pretty darned good".
 
John,

If delete the trailing period on the web-link, it will come up eventually. It looks like it is tied to some internet reseller now though, not the old Marbles company site I remembered.
 
Sid Post, do you mean something other than the Tony Bose collaborations? The Case/TB stuff don't come cheap and are limited production models.
 
toothed - I think you hit the nail on the head.

I went back to A.G. Russel and found a multi-bladed M.O.P. model in the low $200's. While not my pattern, that is right along the lines of what I was looking for.

Maybe I'm loosing my mind but, I've started thinking about Hen & Rooster, Kissing Crane and, Case lines of traditional pocket knives. I guess I'm not ready to take the plunge for a true custom but, that Tony Bose in the right pattern with something more durable then M.O.P. for the Arizona desert would probably get me to bite. :)
 
Sid Post, I like the Case/TB Millenium Trapper and/or Slimline Trapper models but they are hard to find these days and don't come cheap.
 
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