woody 73
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It never fails that someone on the GJ will ask, How old is my tool in question ? I think by now most of you know that some tool companies were better at stamping dates on their tools, like snap-on, or Klein tools, etc.; while other companies never even gave it much thought to stamp their tools with any kind of date system.
I always like the question better by asking in what decade was the tool in question made rather then what year was it made. For very old vintage tools we can look for many clues in older tool catalogs through a ten year period.
Which brings me full circle because recently I picked up a small pocket knife in a hardware store in central, Ohio and I thought it must have been a little old, turns out it was not made in the last 19 years, rather it was made in 1999 much too my surprise.
I thought some of you might enjoy a few links on how to tell how old your case knives are and one example of the knife I bought; if you look real hard you can just make out the one dot system used on the blade itself.
https://www.allaboutpocketknives.co...eference-guide/case-knife-age-identification/
https://www.casexx.com/Library/Secret.asp
I always like the question better by asking in what decade was the tool in question made rather then what year was it made. For very old vintage tools we can look for many clues in older tool catalogs through a ten year period.
Which brings me full circle because recently I picked up a small pocket knife in a hardware store in central, Ohio and I thought it must have been a little old, turns out it was not made in the last 19 years, rather it was made in 1999 much too my surprise.
I thought some of you might enjoy a few links on how to tell how old your case knives are and one example of the knife I bought; if you look real hard you can just make out the one dot system used on the blade itself.
https://www.allaboutpocketknives.co...eference-guide/case-knife-age-identification/
https://www.casexx.com/Library/Secret.asp
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