Everyone's latest acquisitions!

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Arrives tomorrow

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I'd be camping by the mailbox. That's wonderful!!
 
Arrived today just in time for Thanksgiving . . . a very hard to come by Smock SK23 😊

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It's a very simple & elegant design.

I never liked Spyderco's implementation of the knife & I've been looking for a SK23 to buy ever since I sold the Spydie Smock that I previously owned but now I'm thinking about buying another Spydie Smock so that I can present them side by side to illustrate exactly what I don't like about the Spydie version.

Standby for more on this later. ;)
 
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Also just arrived in time for Thanksgiving is a vintage set of 3 Kershaw Bowie knives (4070, 4071 & 4072) designed by Dan Harrison, which were made between 1992-1996:

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According to the following article, the handles are not made of plastic but of laminated hardwood that were hand shaped & finished over the hidden tang. I could not find any specific info on the type of blade steel used, which is only referred to as a tool steel.

See: The Kershaw 4070 Series By Dan Harrison

The style of the handle & the brass bolsters & end caps are similar to those found on the Hattori Hunter fixed blade knife series (1029, 1030, 1031 & 1032, 1034 & 1035) that I also own which were made about 20 yrs earlier. See: Kershaw Hattori Hunter Series.

The blades were in good shape but the bolsters were badly tarnished with some corrosion due to being stored in their sheaths but some Brasso & light buffing w/a cotton wheel restored their luster. I also treated the entirety of each knife w/a light coating of Renaissance wax to help protect them.

This is a matched set that is very lightly engraved with the number 0123, on the back side of each the blades, which is hard to see w/o close examination.

These knives originally came in a cheap vinyl presentation case, which is missing from this set, but those types of cases did not wear well & most that I've seen were falling apart. So, I don't mind not having the case but I've still got to figure out the best way to store them.
 
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I have a soft spot for small fixed blades. This is a Ben Krein (Tom's son) Morel in splatter-etched MagnaCut and streaky vintage black-line Westinghouse micarta with OD and natural liners in his bamboo handle texturing. Very ergonomic design, the angled butt naturally catches your pinky finger when you hold it.


 
I went ahead and snagged the last Lynx "Exclusive Edition". I've been looking for the right Damascus-type knife, and this looked like the one.
 
Hallo immer wieder :) hier ein Video von der Säge der Pflicht LE
..es wird die Tage noch 1 Video geben, von der Schlachtsäge LE
Ein schönes Wochenende zusammen

 
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