"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

r8shell said:
Sorry to hear that. Thanks for the warning, guys, I've got to go put mine in quarantine.
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I just sent one of these to abbydaddy abbydaddy so now y'all going to make him think I sent a saboteur to infest his collection! Like I always say... No closed boxes or knife rolls for the cell knives. Just open air containers, in a cool and dry place. Heat, moisture (humidity) and pressure fuels the chemical breakdown. And as a precaution, keep the bone & wood treasures in a different room! LoL :D:thumbsup:

Utica made that particular GS knife from 1948 to 1972 so you would think the plastic by that time would've been more stable than the earlier celluloid o_O
 
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veitsi_poika said:
I just sent one of these to abbydaddy abbydaddy so now y'all going to make him think I sent a saboteur to infest his collection! Like I always say... No closed boxes or knife rolls for the cell knives. Just open air containers, in a cool and dry place. Heat, moisture (humidity) and pressure fuels the chemical breakdown. And as a precaution, keep the bone & wood treasures in a different room! LoL :D:thumbsup:

Utica made that particular GS knife from 1948 to 1972 so you would think the plastic by that time would've been more stable than the earlier celluloid o_O
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Well the knife is for my daughter, so if it sabotages anyone's knives it's going to be a little girl's knives that get destroyed! ;)

We will see how it goes. Fingers crossed nothing bad happens. The covers might be acrylic.
 
r8shell said:
That's a bummer. I'm a little curious, is the Girl Scouts emblem a separate piece that you can pop out of the scale, or is it breaking down, too?
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I don't know if it's just a different color or a different plastic, but it was deforming and appeared to be part of the monolith. I didn't try picking it out. It's in the bottom of the dumpster now, and I'm not that curious.

Jack Black said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA
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I don't much like that trendy, faddist new logo, dagnabbit.

waynorth said:
I had two of those GS knives with the clear-coated handles that went south!!:(
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Maybe I should warn my big sister. She took hers back before I'd heard of celluloid breakdown. I kind of hoped they were acrylic.
I still think i'ts odd there's no damage to the knife. I wonder if they could have mixed in something that absorbed the acid.

veitsi_poika said:
Bummer Jer! Curious, how did you have that knife stored?
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I just bought it yesterday at an estate sale, in the plastic bag with the Featherweight and the pin.
veitsi_poika said:
No closed boxes or knife rolls for the cell knives. Just open air containers, in a cool and dry place. Heat, moisture (humidity) and pressure fuels the chemical breakdown.
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My impression has been it's a total crapshoot if and when your cel breaks down. I bought a Frank Buster (?) Bulldog out of a five-dollar bowl that I should have bought sooner, but I didn't need another project knife. I finally bought it to save the other knives in the bowl from it.
I have a couple of carving sets in their own tray because they might be celluloid. I'll get them further away from the others.
 
r8shell said:
:( That's a bummer. I'm a little curious, is the Girl Scouts emblem a separate piece that you can pop out of the scale, or is it breaking down, too?
Now I'm nervous about mine. I always assumed it was acrylic/plastic and not celluloid.
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Jack Black said:
Such a shame, I love the look of those GS knives :( :thumbsup:
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I love that color. It's very close, or in between Seafoam Green and Surf Green. Those were DuPont automotive colors used by Ford and GM in the late fifties. Imagine a '57 Bel Air in Seafoam Green with a white top...:cool:

I have a Stratocaster that I'm completely rebuilding and it's in this color with a white pickguard. And for any guitar nerds on the porch, it's going to have 2 P90s.:D
 
I no longer have any celluloid covered knives and haven't had one for years. Celluloid is made from a compound of nitrocellulose and camphor. Although it does have several uses nitrocellulose is an explosive. When you see a magician on stage make a flash effect he has most likely used flash paper some folks call it guncotton which is made from nitrocellulose.
Okay that's your nerd report for the day.:D:D
 
r redden said:
I no longer have any celluloid covered knives and haven't had one for years. Celluloid is made from a compound of nitrocellulose and camphor. Although it does have several uses nitrocellulose is an explosive. When you see a magician on stage make a flash effect he has most likely used flash paper some folks call it guncotton which is made from nitrocellulose.
Okay that's your nerd report for the day.:D:D
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I always enjoyed a game of exploding billiards as a young man ;) :D :thumbsup:
 
Grand stuff Jeff!! Keep on dreaming GEC will aim for an acrylic like that:cool:

I've got some meat carving set, very nice carbon and it has silver mounts but it is faux Stag made of Cell.....just don't let it get near any festive candles otherwise the the house goes up like a torch :eek::eek: Not actually amusing....:thumbsdown:
 
Yes, Will, you have to be a little careful with celluloid, but it's so darn good looking!
Acrylics come close, but not quite the same chatoyance and "depth" of patterns.
 
black mamba said:
I'm glad some people don't want celluloid knives . . . keeps prices down and leaves more for us that do!
I really like the butter & molasses cell.
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Jeff I agree some of them are beautiful and those three you posted are very fine looking knives. :cool:
Before I got serious about collecting knives I had an accumulation of around 60 knives mostly junk. I kept them in an old cigar box just piled in there and rarely even looked at them. I had a Buck 110 and a Schrade Uncle Henry stockman I used daily. I carried the 110 in a belt sheath and the stockman in my pocket those two were the only ones that ever got cleaned oiled and sharpened. About the only time the cigar box came out was in a conversation about knives or if I happened to get another knife.
I bought a $10 gas station knife from the Exon station and when I opened the box to store the new knife I found one of the knives in my knife terminology at that time had "rotted" and it had spread and and took out a couple more. I got online and started trying to find out what happened and came across a site that was really cool called Blade Forums. I'm not sure if that was the first time I had came across BF but it was when I started lurking around. I kept finding myself spending more and more time here for a couple of years then finally joined. Now I'm broke but I have a bunch of really nice knives, a lot of new friends and a ton more of knife knowledge. :D:D
As far as celluloid handles they just freak me out.:eek::eek:
 
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