Best find in a pawn shop...

I found a Busse Basic 10 (unused and unsharpened) in a Navarre, Florida pawn shop/gun shop for $125. I sold it about a week later for $225.
 
Since January of this year:

Western W49 B for $50
Pro-Tech TR-4 for $60.
Benchmade 941 April 2002 Prototype for $60
Western L66 BSA for $10
Viet Nam era Conetta MK2 for $45
WW2 Camillus MK2 USMC for $50
Pre-1964 Camillus Jet Pilot Survival Knife (no date stamp on pommel)
Pre-1960 Camillus Jet Pilot Survival Knife 6" version
 
the only pawn shop in my area has nothing but jackhawk 9000s and fake hitler youth knives.... I occasionally find some good deals at flea markets.
 
I always look at pawn shops, but most of the time I just find stuff that's scuffed, dulled, and priced more USED than I can get it for new on many sites. Like, the local pawn shop wants $80 for a dull, scuffed up Cold Steel OSS that I can get new for $60-70 at any one of a dozen online sites. Only knife I've got from a pawn shop was a Kershaw Crown, with blue handle scales, and it cost me $20. A new Crown is only $15, but I like blue, and the blue was a Walmart exclusive limited edition that is no longer being made, and you can't find those on sites like Amazon or BladeHQ.
 
I have scored some great stuff at one of our local pawn shops, and usually at great prices too...
I picked this one up a couple weeks ago, for $10 :D


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A beautiful Parker toothpick with smooth bone scales, very sharp for $5. Still kickingyself for only getting one when Ghent had four.
 
DShiflet said:
I always look at pawn shops, but most of the time I just find stuff that's scuffed, dulled, and priced more USED than I can get it for new on many sites. Like, the local pawn shop wants $80 for a dull, scuffed up Cold Steel OSS that I can get new for $60-70 at any one of a dozen online sites. Only knife I've got from a pawn shop was a Kershaw Crown, with blue handle scales, and it cost me $20. A new Crown is only $15, but I like blue, and the blue was a Walmart exclusive limited edition that is no longer being made, and you can't find those on sites like Amazon or BladeHQ.
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I keep track of what the knives I'm looking for are going for on evilbay and what they go for new (if still in production). I use those prices to try to get the pawn shop to drop their prices.

Since my post above, I got a slightly used Kabar 3/4 tanto. The shop wanted $45 for it. I told him I could get one new for that ($48 at Tomars) and the most I'd pay for it was $25. We ended at $32. I knew that most of the time the price listed is double what they have in it (unless you see one of the little stickers that show the item has been there a while and it shows different prices for each month in the future). So I always offer about 1/2 of what they are asking and then wait for them to dicker. If they won't, I walk away, but they almost always dicker. Always be ready to walk away.
 
I bought a full size BM Ruckus for 80.00 at a pawn shop once. Someone had used it just enough to dull the factory edge.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
I keep track of what the knives I'm looking for are going for on evilbay and what they go for new (if still in production). I use those prices to try to get the pawn shop to drop their prices.

Since my post above, I got a slightly used Kabar 3/4 tanto. The shop wanted $45 for it. I told him I could get one new for that ($48 at Tomars) and the most I'd pay for it was $25. We ended at $32. I knew that most of the time the price listed is double what they have in it (unless you see one of the little stickers that show the item has been there a while and it shows different prices for each month in the future). So I always offer about 1/2 of what they are asking and then wait for them to dicker. If they won't, I walk away, but they almost always dicker. Always be ready to walk away.
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Yeah, they had the price of the Crown originally marked as $30, they came down to $20 which I considered acceptable.
 
After seeing this post I stopped in to one. I saw 3 different Buck knives. I ended up buying a 110 for $28 ou the door. Not sure if hat is a deal or not, but it looks like an average price referencing he bay.
 
muphasta said:
After seeing this post I stopped in to one. I saw 3 different Buck knives. I ended up buying a 110 for $28 ou the door. Not sure if hat is a deal or not, but it looks like an average price referencing he bay.
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A new Buck 110 is around $25-30, depending on where you buy.
 
Those newer buck 110's use 420HC steel though, the older ones use 440c to my knowledge. If he picked one up that used 440c and is in good conditions he got a good deal as I looked up the prices of those once on a big auction site and they were usually going for around $40 or so. And if it is an older on I would send it in to buck for a spa treatment and so it's as good as new in appearance.
 
Bob6794 said:
Those newer buck 110's use 420HC steel though, the older ones use 440c to my knowledge. If he picked one up that used 440c and is in good conditions he got a good deal as I looked up the prices of those once on a big auction site and they were usually going for around $40 or so. And if it is an older on I would send it in to buck for a spa treatment and so it's as good as new in appearance.
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How does one tell the type of steel or age of the knife?
 
Go on the Buck part of the forums they will help you with that. I read a guide on that a month or two ago but I don't remember enough of it it to try to help you but I am sure there are some over there who will help you.
 
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