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Making Known the Unknowns: Case Fixed Blade
Patterns Revealed

H. Clay Aalders
Bradley Wood
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Making Known the Unknowns – Case Fixed Blade
 Patterns Revealed
By Bradley Wood

I have chased Case fixed blades for twenty-six years, and have caught my fair share. One of the things which captured my imagination early on was the large number of variations available. But nearly as fascinating to me was that the pattern numbers for most of those variations were known. Contrast this with Ka­Bar fixed blades, for example, where there is almost no published information. For some reason, numbers easily stick in my head and I think those pattern numbers satisfied something deeply embedded in my brain.

This article appears in the December 2020 issue of KNIFE Magazine. Premium Online Members can read the whole thing by clicking the blue box below.

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H. Clay Aalders

H. Clay Aalders is a lifelong edged tool user. He spent the past 20 years as a woodworker and fishing guide in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Tennessee. While guiding in Idaho, Clay worked part-time writing for a local newspaper, and upon moving to Tennessee began writing for the blog The Truth About Knives - spending his last 5 years there as Managing Editor. His background is in fixed-blade hunting and bushcraft knives, but has jumped into the world of vintage slipjoint collecting with both feet since coming to work at Knife Magazine. Clay’s primary role is as Digital Editor, curating and creating new content for our website and blog, as well as maintaining the Knife Magazine social media accounts (FB/IG: @theknifemag, Twitter: @knifemagazine). He is also a contributor and Associate Editor of the print magazine.

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