What exactly is Boker Tree Brand?

[afishhunter]

r8shell, when Rough Rider, Colt, Marbles, Hammer Brand, and some of the slip joint Bucks are what you can afford, a genuine Böker Tree Brand and most Case knives are but an unobtainable Grail knife. I admit I splurged a couple weeks ago and bought a Buck 110. The most expensive knife I own, at around $40 with taxes.

 

[r8shell]

My apologies. You're right, of course. Different budgets means different definitions of what constitutes 'expensive.'

 

[leghog]

Also, as far as I know, all the Tree Brand knives use carbon steel blades.

Here's s a stainless red bone Boker Tree Brand (Solingen) I EDC'd for more than a decade. Boker 8288SS pen knife. This knife is still made.

 

[paul'ie]

I dunno Guys, my Bokor is a Tree Brand, on the Logo it says Germany, the model is #110273BB it's a High Carbon Stainless, and I found three different places on the web that said it was 440C and made in Solengin. Yet nowhere on the blades does it say Solengin but on the silver shield it just has the Tree and Germany.

 

[leghog]

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[Alnamvet68]

This is from the Boker site;

Are all of your knives manufactured in Germany?
No. Boker USA, Inc. carries several different brand names, which are manufactured in various parts of the world. Please refer to the list below:

◾Boker knives: Solingen, Germany
◾Boker Arbolito knives: Argentina
◾Boker Plus** knives: Taiwan and China
◾Cinch knives by Boker: Solingen, Germany
◾Magnum knives: Taiwan and China

https://www.boker.de/us/faq.html

** Also, Boker has contracted with an Italian firm to manufacture a so called "premium" line of the Plus family.

"Tree Brand" is not currently used.

The bottom line, if it has a tang stamp of Solingen, it's wholly manufactured in Germany...a tang stamp stating Germany only means the knife was wholly or partially assembled in Germany of parts coming from outside of Germany, or in some instances, completely assembled elsewhere using some parts manufactured in Germany; Solingen = 100% German made.

 

[screened porch]

I have read in the Boker forum that Boker Solingen is all German and Boker Germany is assembled in Germany from parts made in China to Boker's rigid specs.
Or, what Rachel said.

 

[SAK Guy]

Also, as far as I know, all the Tree Brand knives use carbon steel blades. However, the Arbolito knives are mostly stainless, from what I've seen. I don't know about "Tree Brand Arbolito".

An exception is the pen knife I have, which has both stainless blades and scales. It is clearly marked both "Tree Brand" and "Solingen Stainless". I'll take a closer look; Maybe this is indeed one of the Tree Brand Arbolito knives.

-- Sam

Like Leghog said...

All stainless, Solingen shield from late 70's-early 80's....

Showing etch

 

[Kitten Party]

I don't think of them as expensive.

If the shield says "Solingen" it's 100% German made. Tang stamp will also say Solingen
If the shield says "Germany" it's at least partially made in or with parts from China. Usually stainless.
Boker Plus, and Magnum are made in China.

^^^^THIS, the modern SOLINGEN knives are very high quality IMO compared to the ones marked GERMANY

This seems to come up once a week, maybe there should be a sticky

 

[mrknife]

becareful what you buy! some of its made in china. a lot of its been posted previously

 

[MTURBO]

Good read. I should be receiving a Boker in the mail today as a matter of fact!

 

[Will Power]

What is it? A grand knife! Here's a Copperhead in carbon:

 

[wazu013]

Here's some that were made in Germany for sure.

 

[Cliff Parker]

Something you may not have known is 80 years ago they also made Synths I have one I ran up on about 30 years ago.

 

[idahoguy]

https://www.boker.de/us/faq.html

 

[Ernie1980]

Interesting history here! I know to be careful with Bokers, but the Germany knives like the beer barrel series are very good quality for a nice price. I carried my congress yesterday, it's the one of my favorites.

 

[paul'ie]

Say Heah Guys, Yeah mine isn't made in Solengin, what irks me is I did research the knife a little before I bought it and found places that read Solengin and 440C, I finally got a e-mail from Bokor and Kristen told me it was 440A, had I known that I would of bought a Case in CV., again many Thanx Fellas.

 

[neeman]

Tree Brand