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Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Years ago I had a Case Stockman with CV blades. With a Washita soft stone. an Arkansas hard stone, and a piece of leather I could easily and quickly get it to shave my arm. One day I lent to it a friend, and when he gave it back to me he proudly said he had sharpened it. He had put it on a grinder and turned the blades blue and the edges ragged. I asked him if he liked the knife, he said he did, so i gave it to him.
Wow! Good object lesson.
If you are running a/c at constant 75 deg 24/7, and RH in basement is constant 40 percent I would store knives down there.I have 2 central ac units. keep house at ~75º. Today it is 90º & 97% here in southside Virginia. My basement is driest area at about 40% RH., as it is fed by one of the central ac units and it has a dehumidifier. House has basements plus 3 floors. May need to look at 1 or 2 more dehumidifiers, or lower ac to maybe....70º?. In meantime will get VCI papers and silica desiccants. Also, as i keep each knife in its own 1" x 1" x 4" Clear Box I can place a small desiccant pack and strip of VCI paper in each box in
addition to scattering desiccant in drawers. I have a mini Hygrometer/Thermometer in each drawer. They are quite inexpensive and accurate to ±1 % or degree F. ($7.99 for 6, or $1.33 each, on Amazon).
Thanks for all the ideas!
Rover-Frisky (Rover was my 1st dog, a Beagle, i got in 1956. Every morning I would get 2 small milk bone dog biscuits and we would go outside and sit on the back porch steps and eat our biscuits. I only ate part of mine as they were not exactly tasty, giving Rover the remainder. My 2nd dog was Frisky. We had moved into town and he followed me on my bicycle all over town. When left home for college he disappeared. I came home and spend an entire weekend looking for him with no success. My last dog was Stonewall, who i got for my oldest son who was 7 at the time. He was yet to be fully weaned and he cried in the basement until i went down and spent the night with him. He sucked my finger. And that is the story of my dogs!
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I can hear you in my mind’s ear.
I taught person to maintain with fixed angle honing rods (4 angle settings and several “grits”). I forgot to mention cleaning instruction…
That's a thought. But, i love having them nearby, in my bedroom, where i can take one out, hold it, caress it, look at it.
I do have a plan create for each knife its own atmosphere. Then tackle the room RH. Stay turned!Sleep in the basementThat's a thought. But, i love having them nearby, in my bedroom, where i can take one out, hold it, caress it, look at it.
