This happened inthe late 70's or early 80's. I had a Buck 110 folding Hunter & kept it razor sharp with a Lansky sharpening system. My dad asked if he could use it & he was working in the bathroom installing a new bathtub with all the plastic trim & pre-finished wallboard. (He was useing the knife to cut the plastic trim with.)
After he was finished, I asked him where my knife was; he looked in the bathroom, in the garbage & finally said it must be under the bathtub & everything was all sealed up. I figured it was alot cheaper to just buy a new Buck 110 folding hunter than to tear part of the bathroom apart. I bought a new one & resharpened it with my Lansky but I made it a point to keep a closer eye on my knives after that.
Then we moved to the farm & he was cutting baseboard wooden trim in one of the rooms. I picked up what he was useing for a wood chisel & blew up.
He had taken a MAC tool gasket scraper out of my tool chest & was useing it for a wood chisel but he said that it sure worked awfull well. I started locking up my tool chest after he used my 1/4" drive socket set & socket wrench & never bothered to put them back in the tool chest where he got them from! I understood then exactly why he had odds & ends for mechanics tools. I have good memories now in my heart though but I still wonder if that knife is under that bathtub. The house had been sold.
After he was finished, I asked him where my knife was; he looked in the bathroom, in the garbage & finally said it must be under the bathtub & everything was all sealed up. I figured it was alot cheaper to just buy a new Buck 110 folding hunter than to tear part of the bathroom apart. I bought a new one & resharpened it with my Lansky but I made it a point to keep a closer eye on my knives after that.
Then we moved to the farm & he was cutting baseboard wooden trim in one of the rooms. I picked up what he was useing for a wood chisel & blew up.
He had taken a MAC tool gasket scraper out of my tool chest & was useing it for a wood chisel but he said that it sure worked awfull well. I started locking up my tool chest after he used my 1/4" drive socket set & socket wrench & never bothered to put them back in the tool chest where he got them from! I understood then exactly why he had odds & ends for mechanics tools. I have good memories now in my heart though but I still wonder if that knife is under that bathtub. The house had been sold.
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