jb4570
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Hi All,
I paid a visit to the worlds smallest gun show today on my way to work (hope I don't get into trouble posting this from work...dangerous weapons and all, but I had to share). As always not much of anything...this place has maybe 100 tables tops. most everything is more than what you can find it for brand new in a store and not second hand.
One guy had a few old Buck knives.....2 Kalinga's and a flap over...maybe 102 or 105...never got that far. JB ask's how much for the Buck knives'? He said which one...LOL..I think there are only 3 (tell me your price).
So I played the game and point to the 1st Kalinga. He said "That's a kalinga very rare, they don't make them any more". I open the sheath and pull it out the blade is badly damaged where someone has ground out a chip in the blade at the rear of the blade and removed half the width of the blade
(POS thinks I) "$75" said the seller. "WHAT" I said...."It's been customized and it's a skinner now" said the seller
. I said the "Kalinga model is a skinner this one has been damaged beyond repair".....NO, "it's custom". I pick up the other Kalinga and the blade on this one has been sharpened on a grinder to the point it's about half of what it once was. "$75" said the seller:thumbdn:....I did not even bother to look at the flap over.
In all there were about four guy's selling Buck knives. Some old and abused and some over priced new ones. One Guy who is always there selling some nice new knives always has some LE's and always over priced. But, today he had a custom 110 that was just to cool to pass on. As we haggled on the price he dropped it into my price range.
Custom 110, Mastodon Ivory, Turquoise, Engraved Bolsters
jb4570
I paid a visit to the worlds smallest gun show today on my way to work (hope I don't get into trouble posting this from work...dangerous weapons and all, but I had to share). As always not much of anything...this place has maybe 100 tables tops. most everything is more than what you can find it for brand new in a store and not second hand.
One guy had a few old Buck knives.....2 Kalinga's and a flap over...maybe 102 or 105...never got that far. JB ask's how much for the Buck knives'? He said which one...LOL..I think there are only 3 (tell me your price).
So I played the game and point to the 1st Kalinga. He said "That's a kalinga very rare, they don't make them any more". I open the sheath and pull it out the blade is badly damaged where someone has ground out a chip in the blade at the rear of the blade and removed half the width of the blade
(POS thinks I) "$75" said the seller. "WHAT" I said...."It's been customized and it's a skinner now" said the seller. I said the "Kalinga model is a skinner this one has been damaged beyond repair".....NO, "it's custom". I pick up the other Kalinga and the blade on this one has been sharpened on a grinder to the point it's about half of what it once was. "$75" said the seller:thumbdn:....I did not even bother to look at the flap over.In all there were about four guy's selling Buck knives. Some old and abused and some over priced new ones. One Guy who is always there selling some nice new knives always has some LE's and always over priced. But, today he had a custom 110 that was just to cool to pass on. As we haggled on the price he dropped it into my price range.
Custom 110, Mastodon Ivory, Turquoise, Engraved Bolsters
jb4570
...old age...LOL.