Here's a surprise: what a thing to find on one's own sidewalk

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A few feet up our walk from the public walk, shining yellow:
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It can't have been there long, or I'd have seen it. We woke up to a dusting of snow this morning, but this is more than a day's rust or even a few days', I'd say.
I squirted it with penetrating oil (a lot of us like WD40 more than I do), scoured it with oxalyc acid, washed it with dish detergent, oiled it, rubbed the rust off on a whet stone, sharpened it a bit-
It's a Camillus 48 and it walks and talks again.
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I had a better full length shot, but I lost it somewhere. Neither blade is broken.
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Great find, but what I feel when looking at that is the pain of our Traditionalist who has lost his companion - I am still GUTTED to this day for letting myself loose one of the better knives I have ever owned - my TC Single Spear Ebony Barlow.
I look at the wear of that blade - someone loved using that little beauty - I would gift that to someone one day who displayed GREAT interest in knives - and give him/her the story of how it came to be in their hands.
 
I don't see how anybody could have lost it half-way up my sidewalk in such a rusted solid condition. It's very strange.
I keep re-editing to avoid saying anything childishly spooky.
 
Congrats on rescuing that pretty little thing
rust like that could happen pretty fast, maybe a utility meter reader dropped it.. any of your utilities get read within the past week? Or, someone who loves you is setting you up, and tossed it there for you to find :-)
 
I was in my early 30's when I found a beat-up but useable Buck 309 in a county road four way crossing out in the middle of vast wheat fields and prairie grass where OK, KS and CO come together. Believe me when I say "the middle of nowhere". At night you drive toward a light and it takes two hours to get there. Cleaned and polished it and used it as EDC. That was 20 plus years ago and so far the only evil spirit thing that has happened is most of my hair has fallen out. So be aware.

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Perhaps some things are only allowed to be "owned" by certain people a limited amount of time before they move on to the next person; maybe a month, maybe decades.
 
I've come up with a rational explanation: a squirrel dug it up and said, "I can't eat this crap".
 
I never find anything like that. Good thing it was lost near you, it must have known that you would take in strays!
 
It's amazing how small things get about. I once lost a small tin, searched all over for it, eventually found a cat in the garden trying to get the tin off its collar, which had a small magnet for unlocking a cat-flap! And how many things get left on the tops of cars, only to spin off when the car is driven away?
 
When I've found them that solidly rusted I've used rust converter and sometimes gotten a nice black, hard finish. Is that what oxalic (sp?) acid is?
 
Jack Black said:
...And how many things get left on the tops of cars, only to spin off when the car is driven away?
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Norelco, coffee mug and over priced sunglasses, in one shot! Could not open the door due to an obstruction, backed up right over the glasses, the mug had shattered and the Norelco apparently was not shock proof:eek: We have had better days!
 
It was the knife fairy.

The knife fairies flit about, keeping watch over knives, and making sure they don't get abused or neglected. When they find one that is neglected, they work in some mysterious way to get the knife out of the pocket suit "accidentally gets lost" and they carefully put the knife into the path of someone who they know will care for it.

This was knife fairy intervention, pure and simple. Or as my old Irish Granddad would have said, "It was the work of Wee people!"
 
Jack Black said:
It's amazing how small things get about. I once lost a small tin, searched all over for it, eventually found a cat in the garden trying to get the tin off its collar, which had a small magnet for unlocking a cat-flap! And how many things get left on the tops of cars, only to spin off when the car is driven away?
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I did that with my gas-cap once. Luckily my big brother was following me.
 
davek14 said:
When I've found them that solidly rusted I've used rust converter and sometimes gotten a nice black, hard finish. Is that what oxalic (sp?) acid is?
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I had to look up rust converter. Looks like useful stuff, and sounds like a similar principle to protective patination.
Oxalic [sp?] acid is the ingredient in cleansing powders like Barkeeper's Friend. I sometimes use it for an early scrub because it is there.
 
jackknife said:
It was the knife fairy.

The knife fairies flit about, keeping watch over knives, and making sure they don't get abused or neglected. When they find one that is neglected, they work in some mysterious way to get the knife out of the pocket suit "accidentally gets lost" and they carefully put the knife into the path of someone who they know will care for it.

This was knife fairy intervention, pure and simple. Or as my old Irish Granddad would have said, "It was the work of Wee people!"
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Bless them.
 
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