Year Made Stamp....

I too am gonna miss the date stamp. I just picked up a new OD CQC-7 serial number 001, and it got me thinking... If serial numbers are (were) separated by the mfg. date ( i.e. 001 for 2013 and 001 for 2014) then what will happen for next year? Will there be another 001, or will the SNs continue in sequence? Maybe ER can chime in on this.
 
That was really my first post? Wow, I guess it did wake me up.
Seriously, the date was that little detail that make them seem almost custom. A little deal that was a big deal.
Did we ever get a reason why, or is it the obvious (cost cutting)?

Two posts in ten years. Whoa.
 
Dude, you need to slow down, lol.

I haven't heard any reasons behind it, and I don't think I've seen a thread over on the USN to the same effect.
 
I just noticed the pictures of the dealers with the Sheepdog flippers have serial numbers on them. Mine says Rangemaster doesn't have a serial number.
 
droptyne said:
If serial numbers are (were) separated by the mfg. date ( i.e. 001 for 2013 and 001 for 2014) then what will happen for next year? Will there be another 001, or will the SNs continue in sequence? Maybe ER can chime in on this.
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Question Answered... I asked ER about this and he said that SNs will no longer reset after each year, but continue in sequence.
 
Also EKI offers custom engraving if you'd like a special message or number on the knife.
 
I'll be honest. I have a CQC-8 made in 2011 with the year date and now the CQC-7 Mini without. The CQC-8 has a uniqueness that the Mini7 does not.

It makes no sense to me why it was removed.
 
The serial and date markings are inherent to an Emerson knife. Why change something that have worked so well?
 
BenChiew said:
The serial and date markings are inherent to an Emerson knife. Why change something that have worked so well?
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I'll take a guess: it would make stocking inventory less of a "hassle", especially towards the end of the calendar year.
 
My Tiger doesn't have the date stamp. Cool thing is -- as a signature series knife, it has Eries' signature & year signed on the other side of the blade. However, my future Emerson blades may not have a year-stamp unless the decision is reversed.

I'm yet another vote for keeping the date.
 
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Officer's Match said:
I'll take a guess: it would make stocking inventory less of a "hassle", especially towards the end of the calendar year.
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Not necessarily so. They just need to ensure the stock keeping units are accounted for by quantity. It is perfectly ok to send out a knife which was made a few years earlier.
 
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