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I've always wanted to add a couple of vintage Marbles knives (Ideal and Safety Hunter particularyly) to my collection, but haven't found a good enough deal on them to bite (I should have bought all the NOS builds done when Mike Stewart briefly resurrected Marbles as a good knife line <bang head>).
On a whim I bought one of the new Chinese made stainless Safety Hunter models at SMKW while I was there Saturday. For $20 I wasn't going to complain about buying what I considered to be a "replica" made by the same company.
It is true to the original design and it is a pretty good looking knife. It has great snap to it opening and closing which gives confidence to the construction. The grinds on the blade are good and it is reasonably sharp for out of the box. It isn't tool steel, but I didn't expect that out of the current production (although I'd like to see a properly heat treated D2 out of the Chinese factory). The stag-bone is what I wanted and they've done a nice job on the stain and jigging. Again, for $20 I couldn't pass it up and it scratches the itch a little that's been growing to spend the money of a collectable 1900's piece. Now I just have to find a repro of that Safety Fish model!
I've always wanted to add a couple of vintage Marbles knives (Ideal and Safety Hunter particularyly) to my collection, but haven't found a good enough deal on them to bite (I should have bought all the NOS builds done when Mike Stewart briefly resurrected Marbles as a good knife line <bang head>).
On a whim I bought one of the new Chinese made stainless Safety Hunter models at SMKW while I was there Saturday. For $20 I wasn't going to complain about buying what I considered to be a "replica" made by the same company.
It is true to the original design and it is a pretty good looking knife. It has great snap to it opening and closing which gives confidence to the construction. The grinds on the blade are good and it is reasonably sharp for out of the box. It isn't tool steel, but I didn't expect that out of the current production (although I'd like to see a properly heat treated D2 out of the Chinese factory). The stag-bone is what I wanted and they've done a nice job on the stain and jigging. Again, for $20 I couldn't pass it up and it scratches the itch a little that's been growing to spend the money of a collectable 1900's piece. Now I just have to find a repro of that Safety Fish model!
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