Thoughts on Tony Bose collaboration Case knives?

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Pàdruig said:
I do not own any Bose/Case collabs , nor have I in the past, so I can't really speak to personal experience regarding them.

However, I can speak to why I have had cold feet regarding them and why I continue to have said cold feet. I have no problem with shelling out $500+ on a knife - if it's worth it to oneself, who is anyone to judge? That said, with the reports that I have seen with QC issues on these, especially considering the price tag, I remain rather wary. You shouldn't have to worry that a knife may or may not pass muster when you shell out that kind of cash for one but when more than a few folks have mentioned that their experiences have been less than perfect, it gives me pause.

All that said, I understand that Case will absolutely take care of you if there are issues - so there is that to fall back on if needed.
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I'd have e to agree, you can take your chance on a Bose not under the watchful eye of Case cutlery for much cheaper and im sure they are great knives. I'm a 95 percent Case collector in Mint only. I'm way too young to have had the opportunity to purchase them when they were under 20 bucks. Ive only been collecting for about 7 years now and have gone a little nuts paying for example $150 bucks for an absolute Mint 1978 stag and bone Gator toothpick set which actually consists of 4 parts. Mine Came with the original signed outer cardboard sleeve that goes over the fake but realistic gator skin Case which opens to the 2 matching serialized stag and bon toothpicks. Now I am seeing people asking $500+ dollars for this set with either sharpened or the case is in terrible condition and the knives being left in that Case blows my mind. Anyway nobody with probably read this but fro 150 to over 500 in half a decade and none are like mine that I have seen. No one kept that outer matching cardboard sleeve that I have seen yet. Anyway im responding to the above due to the fact the mention that Bose knives in my opinion and the gentleman's above opinion aren't getting what they used to. I collect Tested Era up to 1970 ten dots only in mint. I keep all of my knives seperate from their original boxes or Case's they came in and have built display cases to actual enjoy my knives. I never have to get up to look. They are part of my household furniture, wont discolor on the backside of any of the bone knives from the original counter displays. I have collected Mint knives over 100 years young up through the 70's and have 4 of these similar displays throughout my home. You may see a few Case classics but as the Bose knives, I believe these knives will drop in price as many other companies like bullet reproductions, 20 years from now we will see the same thing happening. Parker was a genius with a genius idea when Case was struggling but the few ase classics I own aside from the only 4 patterns possibly 5 if you Count parkers special made for him were made at the Case factory. So i bought some classics and when I received them, the ones not made at the case factory, for example Queen, blue grass, and I heard Bulldog knives contract ran out because their machinery was ill equipped to produce the classic quality and it showed. Some were great like a trapper I still have. 1 of 4 made at Case so makes sense. Others not so much so kept my 2 favorite and let go of the rest. The weight, quality, and comparing to my original Tested and xx era knives, just didn't add up. Hopefully no one sees this and yells at me lol but I'd thought I'd show you one of my display case's. Making one now for someone who remains to be not unknown, but important more the less can't send photo of display case with this message hmm
 
Cheetahpeanut said:
I'd have e to agree, you can take your chance on a Bose not under the watchful eye of Case cutlery for much cheaper and im sure they are great knives. I'm a 95 percent Case collector in Mint only. I'm way too young to have had the opportunity to purchase them when they were under 20 bucks. Ive only been collecting for about 7 years now and have gone a little nuts paying for example $150 bucks for an absolute Mint 1978 stag and bone Gator toothpick set which actually consists of 4 parts. Mine Came with the original signed outer cardboard sleeve that goes over the fake but realistic gator skin Case which opens to the 2 matching serialized stag and bon toothpicks. Now I am seeing people asking $500+ dollars for this set with either sharpened or the case is in terrible condition and the knives being left in that Case blows my mind. Anyway nobody with probably read this but fro 150 to over 500 in half a decade and none are like mine that I have seen. No one kept that outer matching cardboard sleeve that I have seen yet. Anyway im responding to the above due to the fact the mention that Bose knives in my opinion and the gentleman's above opinion aren't getting what they used to. I collect Tested Era up to 1970 ten dots only in mint. I keep all of my knives seperate from their original boxes or Case's they came in and have built display cases to actual enjoy my knives. I never have to get up to look. They are part of my household furniture, wont discolor on the backside of any of the bone knives from the original counter displays. I have collected Mint knives over 100 years young up through the 70's and have 4 of these similar displays throughout my home. You may see a few Case classics but as the Bose knives, I believe these knives will drop in price as many other companies like bullet reproductions, 20 years from now we will see the same thing happening. Parker was a genius with a genius idea when Case was struggling but the few ase classics I own aside from the only 4 patterns possibly 5 if you Count parkers special made for him were made at the Case factory. So i bought some classics and when I received them, the ones not made at the case factory, for example Queen, blue grass, and I heard Bulldog knives contract ran out because their machinery was ill equipped to produce the classic quality and it showed. Some were great like a trapper I still have. 1 of 4 made at Case so makes sense. Others not so much so kept my 2 favorite and let go of the rest. The weight, quality, and comparing to my original Tested and xx era knives, just didn't add up. Hopefully no one sees this and yells at me lol but I'd thought I'd show you one of my display case's. Making one now for someone who remains to be not unknown, but important more the less can't send photo of display case with this message hmm
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If you take the long view Bose/Case collaborations in mint condition have generally gone up in price. MSRP was not what the older ones sold for, they sold for at least $100 less or more. For example, my Arkansas hunter went for $300 from a dealer. Older ones were even more discounted,I got a new in box Yukon hunter for $100 at a show but didn’t have the money for the Pruner at $100 from the same guy. Wish I’d got the Pruner, that Yukon takes up a lot of pocket space :)
 
What worries me as far as some of these knives made for by someone else for example would be Remington. I have a nice collection of their original bullets and when they tried to revive them all except for the first made production are worth less now than when they were brought out. I bought a few, picked them up and I think I just gave the reproductions to my father the next day. The quality was terrible compared to an original. But everyone has what they like, collect or use.
 
Nobody can say with 100% certainty what future collectors will want, but if you are correct and the Case/Bose collabs drop in price I don't have a problem with that. I'm a user/accumulator, not a collector, so if I can get some of the best factory knives ever made at a reduced price I'm all for it.

What I do know is that I wanted a Case for a good long while, and the Norfolk is the knife that finally got me to try one out.

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Nobody wants to lose money but knife collecting as an 'investment' is a pretty sure fire way of doing it unless you are tuned to the up-to-the-minute trends and whims of the FOMO fuelled market ;) In that case you are not really interested in knives, just quick profit.

I'm still waiting for a 'bargain' on one particular Collab :D and as kamagong kamagong rightly points out if prices drop then it's a benefit for many who appreciate the knives. I'm not a collector, user, hoarder but a connoisseur :cool:
 
No one can say for sure where the knife market will go, but in my opinion the Case / Bose annuals are the surest bet out there for knives that are likely to go up in value. They have the associations of both the biggest production name and the biggest custom name in the traditionals world, are no longer being made, were very limited in production, and have a lot of features and signs of quality that you can't really find elsewhere. I'm honestly surprised that GEC's took off like they did but the Bose annuals are still fairly attainable. If more people try them out and see how nice they are, I think the limited availability will cause prices to shoot up pretty quickly.
 
kamagong said:
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Good point, there are a few that I'd like to snap up if I see a decent deal, which is becoming less and less common.

On a side note, I'd like to distract... I mean, inform potential Case/Bose buyers that the Rough Ryder Reserves in D2 are surprisingly close to the annuals at a fraction of the price. I think they use use CNC mills instead of the wire EDM used on the Boses, but the liners and backsprings on the RRR's are also completely square, without the typical distortion and gaps that come from stamping those parts out of a sheet. They also put bronze washers on either side of the blade, which is less effort and thickens the knife more than the machined countersinks on the Boses, but achieves the same result of eliminating visible scuffs on the tang from opening. And they also feature brushed stainless steel bolsters, although the liners are brass instead of steel. Some of the designs are a little wonky, and the multi blade models tend to be way too thick, but the single blade ones are really nice.
 
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