More Becker History and Info

I wanted to share with you some of the posts I've collected from Ethan's account on Bladeforums and a few other random posts. This is, by no means, all of the screen shots I've collected. They're just some that I thought were worth the share. Not that you can't find these yourself, I've just gathered them all in one location. 

You might have to click on the photos to make them large enough to read.

Here is the story of the bk20:

Story on the bk2:

Story on the bk9:

Here is the info on the "happy accident" bk29. This post says 500 were made but kabar only sold around 350-375ish:

Here are Ethan's thoughts on the flat vs saber bk16:

Ok, this is an important one. If you take the handles off a blackjack/cincin era blade you may find a number scratched on the tang and a number taped in the handles. Sometimes they match sometimes they don't. The numbers were there to match the fitted scales to the right blade blank. THEY ARE NOT SERIAL NUMBERS! No matter how many times you tell people this, they'll buy a blackjack bk2, open it up, and say, "Oh look I have the first one made: it says #1." then they try to sell it for a small fortune. There were many #1s, the batch sizes were probably no bigger then 50 (probably more like 20-30) The numbers were reused every batch. 

Here is why the sterile's have no marking:

Here is a cool story of Ethan buying back his name rights at the Camillus closing auction:

Story of the SanMai bk11:

John Benner and the bk3 Part 1:

John Benner and the bk3 Part 2:


Ethan Becker on choils:

 Ethan Becker on Stainless steel: