PC Weehawk history and value ?

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Just wondering if anyone can tell me about Pacific Cutlery's Weehawk boot knife, including value. Seems like a nice knife, never used, in box, with black micarta handle material and leather sheath. Thanks in advance, Rand
 
Hi Rand...a picture would help. I'm also not sure if you are talking about the bootknife made by Jody Samson.., or something made as a production knife by PCC. Jody had his own Knife Shop (Samson Knives).., and if your sheath is leather with a little bucking bronco on the back.., it is not a Pacific Cutlery Wee-Hawk..., but a "Samson Knives" Wee-Hawk..., and a sheath made by Charlie Maas. It would also have a Lion stamp with the word "Samson" on it...and a filed thumb ramp somewhere between 1" and 2"'s in length.

If these things are in place.., it is worth between $250 and $350 generally speaking. Jody came up with that design in mid 1977 if I'm not mistaken.., and it was designed with the help of a Lockheed tooling specialist named Gary Garrow. It was introduced in his only Samson Knives catalogue in 1978.., and I'm not sure how many were made.

Someone will probably know if PCC continued the design, but Pacific Cutlery didn't become a legal entity until 1979 if memory serves.., so you may have a pretty vauable peace depending on what I mentioned above. Certainly collectible in any case...


"Hunters seek what they [WANT].., Seekers hunt what they [NEED]"
 
The nylon sheaths with these knives in particular are really rinkydink as opposed to its brothers' and sisters' (Samson Skinners) nice butterfly-stamped, black leather sheaths.

You might get more for it in an auction format, as much as I detest them!

Professor.
 
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