Flea market finds

needler420

needler420

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Wanted to create a thread for people who hunt knives in the wild.

I am always thrifting, yard sailing, flea marketing, auctioneering looking for the good stuff.

Want to see everyone else wild finds.

This last Saturday at the flea market I got a cold steel night force the original model for $8 dollars. Just missing a pocket clip. Was used but not abused, just needs a good sharpening.

This weekend I'm going back to see If I find the same vendor again to buy his other cold steel that I'm unsure of the model.

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needler420 said:
Am I the only one who actively hunts knives in the wild?
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No, but most who do are looking for vintage traditional stuff.
At least I would think so seeing as how there's a long flea market finds thread on the porch but not one here.

Btw 8$ is obviously a great score on this s knife.
 
I hit up Flea Markets and yard sales looking for Marvel Legends figures (DORK!), once in a while i'll stumble across a nice blade but when I used to do this looking for knives I was always disappointed, my experience with these sales (same with gun shows) is they are almost always overpriced. Typically the best bargains are older Case knives or Buck 110s that are in a shoe box with 50 other knives, these are the only somewhat good finds i've had from various places...
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I hunt knives in the wild. I don't have photos are the moment, but here are some of my finds in the past two years:

-- two Henckel model 1815 stockmans from the 1970s - new in box!
-- Gerber Mini-Covert
-- Kershaw Storm 2
-- Case 61479L SS Centerlock
-- Kershaw Wildcat Ridge 3140JB

I'm sure there are a few more that I'm not thinking of, but these are the ones that I remember off hand.
 
I go to a lot of estate sales, yard sales, and flea markets but mostly only see older Buck and Case knives. Great find though.
 
Hickory n steel said:
A hobo style knife that doesn't come apart ?
Does the bail perhaps detatch so you can slide the thing apart ?
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No. These scout style knives with fork and spoon were everywhere in the 70's and early'I 80's. Quite a few were made in Japan and has various "brand" names.
 
Todd21969 said:
No. These scout style knives with fork and spoon were everywhere in the 70's and early'I 80's. Quite a few were made in Japan and has various "brand" names.
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I guess this is in general similar to a scout knife.

I like the clip point blade on this, but can't imagine the difficulty in trying to eat with it.
 
I gave up. I used to go to yard/estate sales and buy tools for my business. While there of course I looked at pocket knives, hatchets, axes, etc. RARELY do I see anything of value, and if I do it is priced at retail after being marked as "collector" items. Years of looking wore me out and I have some long cabinet clamps and a couple of well worn pocket knives for my efforts.

I have found that I can catch a better deal on the 'bay from time to time for old knives, and for tools I frequent several online vendors. I spent waaaaaaayyyyy more in gas than I ever saved driving around looking.

Robert
 
Hunting for knives in the wild is like mining, you have to be willing to sift through tens of thousands of items to find something that is worth looking at, and most of that turns out to be junk; but, their are gems out there, you just have to keep looking.

n2s
 
I bought a camilus tl-29 a couple weeks ago for 5 bucks. In great working condition, never sharpened, it just had a bunch of gunk and patina on it. Im ALLWAYS on the lookout for knives at fleamarkets. Ill post some pictures of my finds tomorow if I get the chance.
 
not2sharp said:
Hunting for knives in the wild is like mining, you have to be willing to sift through tens of thousands of items to find something that is worth looking at, and most of that turns out to be junk; but, their are gems out there, you just have to keep looking.

n2s
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I don't have the time to burn, and don't want to waste a day driving around on the possibility of finding an old knife for a few a few cents on the dollar. I just don't have the time. Worse, I don't have the patience. If I drove around an entire day looking for a project knife and wind up empty I would be pretty pissed off. in fact, I have been!

I am better off leaving that type of activity two others that enjoy whiling away their days doing that kind of thing. Spending a couple of weekends out and $50 worth of gas to come home with a $10 treasure just doesn't work for me. Maybe if I enjoyed the experience itself more I would make a better candidate.

Robert
 
On my trips to Germany I found cool knives all over the place but here all you are going to find is the crap that nobody wants.
 
I have only tried a couple of times. Someone above said, the reward is the search.
 
I’ve had better luck at pawn shops. I probably buy a knife one out of 20 times I go in to check, but if I’m passing by anyway and it takes me 30 seconds to scan the knife cabinet to see if there’s anything worthwhile it’s not a huge investment of time.
 
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