ea42
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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By now most of you know that Canal Street Cutlery closed down in December of last year. I sure do miss that place, and the great people I worked with, but I'm super happy to have experienced the cutlery business first hand with a fine bunch of artisans. We were few, on average about eight of us, so we were really like one big extended family. Well after the close and subsequent sale of equipment Wally asked myself and Harold Buley if we could stay on for a couple of weeks to clean the place out. It had to be completely empty for the landlord to sign off on it. You have no idea how much can accumulate over a period of ten years in a knife factory!! Tons (literally) of scrap metal, boxes, furniture, knife material, it was endless. Needless to say there were a lot of gems amongst the rubbish. mostly newer stuff, but this little item almost went unnoticed. Looked like any old wooden crate, covered in dust, but when I lifted it several sheets of bronze slid out. Turns out it was bronze stock used for bushings, master samples, etc when the factory was Schrade Walden! I wiped the decades of dust off and this is what it said:
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And here's the spot that I found it, right on top of the wooden cabinet. Of course this is after we'd gone through and cleaned the room up. It's actually a back room that was used as a catch all, kind of small and filled with duct work pieces, wood, boxes, electrical paraphernalia, unused machines, etc. Not sure what they used it for back in the old days, but I believe it was just off the inspection room.
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Eric
And a couple of other shots:
And here's the spot that I found it, right on top of the wooden cabinet. Of course this is after we'd gone through and cleaned the room up. It's actually a back room that was used as a catch all, kind of small and filled with duct work pieces, wood, boxes, electrical paraphernalia, unused machines, etc. Not sure what they used it for back in the old days, but I believe it was just off the inspection room.
Eric
