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people have talked about makers fixing knives after they have sold them
Well, I previously purhcased a Bob Crowder boot knife almost a year ago. This knife was originally purchased in 1990 at the Oregon knife collectors show. I saw the knife at a friends in 1993 and then saw it on EBay about 16 months ago. Much to my surprise, it came up again 6 months later.
I was able, at that time to acquire the knife. Unfortunately, the poor photos used to show the knife did not show a crack and susequent bad repair of the Desert Ironwood scales.
Why did I keep the knife? Good knife basically by an excellent maker and the price was right.
This year on our trip west, I stopped at Bob's and left the knife to get new scales on it. I mentioned pearl would be nice as would honey giraffe bone.
Continued our trip and on our way home, stopped in to obtain the repaired knife.
What a terrific job and my cost was the giraffe bone for the scales. I never hesitate to buy the good knives I can obtain from Bob Crowder
Here are a couple images showing the final knife
Well, I previously purhcased a Bob Crowder boot knife almost a year ago. This knife was originally purchased in 1990 at the Oregon knife collectors show. I saw the knife at a friends in 1993 and then saw it on EBay about 16 months ago. Much to my surprise, it came up again 6 months later.
I was able, at that time to acquire the knife. Unfortunately, the poor photos used to show the knife did not show a crack and susequent bad repair of the Desert Ironwood scales.
Why did I keep the knife? Good knife basically by an excellent maker and the price was right.
This year on our trip west, I stopped at Bob's and left the knife to get new scales on it. I mentioned pearl would be nice as would honey giraffe bone.
Continued our trip and on our way home, stopped in to obtain the repaired knife.
What a terrific job and my cost was the giraffe bone for the scales. I never hesitate to buy the good knives I can obtain from Bob Crowder
Here are a couple images showing the final knife
....thanks for sharing the pictures...