Tru-Bal Throwing Knife Society

In 1984 Harry McEvoy struck a deal to sell off two or three models from the Tru-Balance Knife Company to a company in Oklahoma called Tru-Bal West. The models they took over from Harry were the Model No. 1 PROFESSIONAL, the Model No. 3 THROWING BOWIE and a modified Model No. 80 SUPER-PRO with the [...]

For your enjoyment and edification I present to you the 1982-1983 Tru-Balance Knife Company catalog that Harry K. McEvoy sent to me when I was young whippersnapper selling knives to make my way through college:

This is an early Model No. 1 Professional throwing knife from Tru-Balance that I picked up a few years ago. This model was made by Harry K. McEvoy for 30 years from 1953 to 1983 when he sold the design to Tru-Bal West along with some others. By then he was no longer putting the [...]

I originally purchased this set of three Tru-Bal throwing knives on eBay in 2009. Here is the original auction description: This auction is for a lot of three Tru-Bal Harry K. McEvoy throwing knives. These three knives are finished in a very high quality deep gun blue finish. The longest, I believe it is a [...]

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