Messages from the Blademaster

The Hawkeye Knife Collectors had their first CASE knife made for club year 1994. (Tang date 1993).   It was a beautiful stag 5355. This was the ninth edition for the club, with the first 8 being other brands.   For the next 6 years another beautiful Case knife, mostly stags, would be ordered.  This Iowa club […]

The Hardeman County Knife Collectors is in Tennessee.   The first knife was a 1983 Charter member trapper. 50 pieces were made.  5 more trappers followed with the last having a 1986 club year.  Most of these were made in only 40 knife editions.     It seems that this club only lasted about 4 years even […]

The 2011 sets have been worked.  KnifeDB.com will usually show a set price or two (if sold as a set), and the individual knives also have their own selling prices,  The individual knives also will show the set COA, and set image (if sold as a set).   The * at the start of the remarks […]

The Golden Circle Knife Club was founded in 1978 in Tennessee.  I believe it had a ten year run with the last knife a Case G6199 ½ made in 1988.  There were only  44 knives made in this edition.  Interestingly, of the 6 XX knives I have found for this company, five of them have […]

The Gator Cutlery Club is another early club.  It has 10 Case knives to its credit.  The first Case knife was from 1982 with a 1977 tang stamp date (The green toothpick below).  The last knife found was from 1989.  The first Case knife was made with 350 copies.  Five of the later years were […]

At this time my wife and I are working in these areas:  Looking for precise color pictures of knives that are currently only documented with a general black and white image. Trying to get as many CASE XX club knives added to the correct club as possible.  Cleaning up sets. On sets, I am working […]

The slant bolster mint set of 2012 is a neato set.  It included 7 knives with Dark Red peach seed jigged bone, scrolled bolsters,  and a long tailed C serial number.  It came in a wood and glass frame  slanted  to look like a slant bolster knife.  Look closely at the frame bottom.  Notice that […]

The Flint River Knife Collectors Club was started in 1982  and has created many CASE XX knives over the years.   I have documented 14 editions so far on KnifeDB.com.    The latest knife I have documented is from 2012.  (Remember I have not yet started on knives made after 2015).  The largest edition made had […]

I am currently working on polishing club knives and sets.  Yesterday I worked on the  Limited Edition Mint Set XXVIII (28).  I had documented 4 knives and began to search for the 4 I was missing.  After 5 hours I had found all the knives and began to add actual selling prices for the individual […]

The Johnny Appleseed Collectors Club has  a long history.  The first XX club knife is from 1984.  The last one I have documented is from 2016, but I have seen others made later than this.  I just haven’t written them up yet.   At this time, the BladeMaster has found 13 knives for this club. The […]