How would you feel about this

[JD Bear]

Might want to look into a pocket slip if that kind of thing bothers you. I have a lot of Case knives and all the metal they use is soft. What I've done in the past is take 2000 grit sandpaper and give the bolsters my own satin finish....it's a trick I picked up from G2 and it looks great.

 

[jackknife]

The knife was only in a pocket with a Victorinox Classic, but now that I think about it the classic does have some points that could scratch bolsters.

There was your first mistake; putting that poor knife in the same pocket as a Victorinox classic! Victorinox is some tough stuff, and the little classic is more pugnacious than even a Case peanut. Kind of like a yappy little ankle biter dog. The classic probably attacked the other knife in a pocket territorial display. Never er carry another type knife in the same pocket as any SAK, most of all a classic. Just asking for trouble. That's why I keep my classic in a leather sheath on my keyring, to keep any other knives safe. Never under estimate a classic.

 

[The Zieg]

My knives are users not safe queens, but I haven't had this knife a month yet.
I guess it only annoys me because it's pretty new, and I didn't expect this so soon.
Edit :
Sorry for the confusion, what I'm talking about is the real scratching and hazing of the nickel silver bolsters.
I was just surprised by how quickly this happened.
I'm going to leave it like this as it is a user, I just didn't expect it to get like this so soon and was taken back a little bit.

Battle scars! What would a panserbjørn be without them?

Zieg

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

'Nickel' bolsters are easy to scuff up, same as with brass. Even dust & dirt on your fingertips will do it, when handling them. Same for a little dust or dirt in the pocket. I live in the desert southwest, and sandy dust (silica/quartz-based) is ubiquitous here; there's no escaping it. I can purchase a shiny, brand new nickel-bolstered knife in the morning, and I'll notice new scuffing on the bolsters by the end of the day, having only handled the knife and carried it in my otherwise empty pocket.

That same, easily-scuffed tendency also means they're easy to fix up. Lighter hazing can be handled by some metal polish. Slightly heavier scratches are easily worked out with some high-grit sanding, in the 800 - 2000 range, in a sequence. Wrap a small piece of sandpaper around a rubber eraser, as a sanding block. Use linear sanding passes in one direction (NOT back & forth), to keep the pattern nice & uniform. Then follow the 2000-grit with metal polish again.

An alternative way to 'hide' the scuffs and fingerprints on nickel, is to Scotch-Brite the finish. The green Scotch-Brite pads marketed for cleaning use in the kitchen do a nice job. Takes maybe 5 - 10 minutes. It produces a fine satin finish on the nickel and does a good job hiding those fine scratches.

 

[leghog]

That's all good and well with carbon steel, but with stainless I tend to tolerate scratches only if I've put them there with my own use.
I don't know why I hold a bit of a double standard, but for some reason I do.

Many of my knives are stainless too. I have an CKCO Colonial stainless in my pocket now. If you carry and use pocket knives they will get scratched and worn. That's just the nature of carrying and using such a tool. So since I buy mostly used knives, carbon and stainless, it's not a worry to me as they are "pre-scratched" and "pre-worn".

sitflyer said it best --- "It's a pocket knife, nuff said..."

 

[The Zieg]

+1 Scotchbrite. I use the green pads, once the been worn out in the kitchen, on my blunt sparring swords after filing out the dings.

Zieg

 

[Butch]

In the watch community, its called Wabi-Sabi.

Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death.

Links: Wabi sabi and vintage watches
What is wabi-sabi?

 

[Hickory n steel]

There was your first mistake; putting that poor knife in the same pocket as a Victorinox classic! Victorinox is some tough stuff, and the little classic is more pugnacious than even a Case peanut. Kind of like a yappy little ankle biter dog. The classic probably attacked the other knife in a pocket territorial display. Never er carry another type knife in the same pocket as any SAK, most of all a classic. Just asking for trouble. That's why I keep my classic in a leather sheath on my keyring, to keep any other knives safe. Never under estimate a classic.

I guess so, the little classic is just so handy with it's flat blade screwdriver and scissors that I didn't think it could hurt a fly, but I guess they just don't like nickel silver.
I can only imagine what would happen if all 3 of them were in there to gang up on the poor half whittler.


Btw as far as slips goes, I've tried them as a barrier against lint and I just found it a bit of an inconvenience.

 

[leghog]

In the watch community, its called Wabi-sabi

Not all wear or imperfection, even in the watch community, is wabi sabi. Wabi Sabi is a Japanese aesthetic, and even in the Japanese aesthetic ( or especially in the Japanes aesthetic) not all wear is wabi sabi.

This is wabi sabi:

 

[mrknife]

Buy used knives. No worries then when using it more.

nuff said, as a collector if I like a knife enough to use, i tend to try to buy too. one for the hoard and one to use. the user maybe in gently used condition to make it easier