Got a ‘75 Xacto catalog coming. We have only two others from the 70s, the ‘71 catalog I got sometime last year and the ‘78.

I’d really like to get the ‘72 thru ‘74 catalogs, as I think there were a fair number of changes then with how some of the knife sets were done (vinyl blade holders to magnetic strips, etc), and redesign of the balsa stripper and the plane. Also, change of the metal #8 basic knife to the orange plastic 8R knife. But, I do not know the exact dates of ANY of those changes other than basically in 72-74 or so. Also, I think Xacto sold out to CBS in that time frame (before in turn being sold by CBS to Hunt Manufacturing in 1981).

Anyway, we’ll at least add the ‘75 soon. Started scanning on the ‘84 the other day; the 84-86 catalogs arrived in the mail late last week. Those three catalogs are longer than some of the other catalogs…like 48 pages or so each.

Earl

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Earl L. Cagle, Jr.
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