How to date the Kershaw 1050

[Texas John]

New guy here. I have been googling for the answer for the past couple hours, and getting nowhere. I came across this site, and decided to ask here.

Usually, I'm pretty good at ferreting out info, but not so much on this on.

Just inherited this knife today, and wanted to learn about it. Came in a retail box with a sheath, along with a sharpener with it's own sheath.

I know that there are many different tang marks. They range from the plain marking of Kersaw 1050/Japan, and Oregon, Lake Oswego, Kai, Field Folder, maybe more, idk.

Is there a correlation between these name changes, and production time line?

Mine is plain jane. On one side of the tang it says 1050 Japan. On the other side it says Kershaw. Built like a tank, for sure. Can anybody estimate the year of production of my knife?

Thanks.

 

[kershawguy]

I can look in my catalogs tomorrow and narrow it down for you, the fact that it is the set will make it relatively easy

I went ahead and looked , 1986-1989 is what it looks like

 

[RemyKaze]

I usually wine and dine my knives a few times before fondling them. Sometimes, they still bite me.

 

[bpeezer]

I usually wine and dine my knives a few times before fondling them. Sometimes, they still bite me.

Beat me to it

 

[Rickman53]

I usually wine and dine my knives a few times before fondling them. Sometimes, they still bite me.

Yep, that one was too obvious in asking for a wine and dine response.

 

[Texas John]

I can look in my catalogs tomorrow and narrow it down for you, the fact that it is the set will make it relatively easy

I went ahead and looked , 1986-1989 is what it looks like

Thank you, sir!

 

[kershawguy]

I usually wine and dine my knives a few times before fondling them. Sometimes, they still bite me.

Took me way to long to figure out what you were referring to, man am I getting slow