I found my trapper!!

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Sooo, first post in traditional here. I received a case trapper in g10 for an anniversary gift from my wonderful wife of 3 years. Love the knife. Beautiful piece of pocket jewelry. I'm used to modern folders and such, like benchmade, cold steel etc. Well I lost it last week and was devastated! Looked everywhere and even lost sleep over it because of the sentimental value. Well playing with my doggy earlier outside, found this buried in the dirt. It's been run over a couple of time obviously. Now just need to clean it. Any suggestions? It's gritty as hell and there's a big scuff on the handle steel. Water and soap is what I'll try. look forward to being part of the traditional forum. I'm actually eyeing a case stockman. Just haven't picked a handle material yet.



 
G10 and Stainless? Hot soapy water and you're done. Work the joint back and forth a lot under running water. Might want to put masking tape on the blades so you don't cut yourself. Scuffed up bolster? Get some Flitz metal polish, Simichrome paste, or Mother's Mag Polish and buff it up to a mirror shine with a rag or paper towel.
 
Be sure to enter that "beauty" in the every Sunday contest on patina....more precisely, in the neglected, abused, and down right careless category; you just might have a winner.:D
 
Glad you found it! Doesn't look too bad. Just clean her up. Now it's got some character marks that give it personality.
 
Thanks for the welcome guys. Always seemed like there were good folk here in the traditional. I got her all cleaned up. I noticed it pushed the g10 scales in a bit from being run over. It's not level with the steel on the handle anymore. Doesn't really bug me though. Just adds character.
 
goephoto said:
...Doesn't really bug me though. Just adds character.
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Exactly. Now it's yours for sure. Through thick and thin, etc.. That bit's not just for marriage ceremonies ya know.

It's a sick feeling when you lose something that you carry with you all the time. If it's from someone dear to you it's even worse. I'm sure most if not all of us have experienced that at one time or another. Now if someone found my Morgan Dollar I used to carry in my left pocket that seems to have gotten off several years ago, drop me a line. I'll tell you where to send it. ;) I promptly stopped carrying the Englehard 1 oz I usually carried in my other pocket.
 
Happy for you that you found it! Good thing you weren't up here in my neck of the polar-vortexed woods, or you'd have to wait for 3 feet of snow to melt before you would have a chance of finding it!

But if it's that important, you might want to give Case a call and see if they offer "spa treatment" to bring it back to like-new. Looks cool dirty, tho' -- plus you have a story that you'll remember every time you break it out. Let us know how it works out....
 
Happy for you that you found it! Losing a Schrade 108OT (that I had carried for 20+ years) on a job site in 2005, and trying to find another, is what pushed me over the edge in becoming a knife collector. If I had found that knife I might still be normal! OH
 
Nice trapper and you're lucky neither blade was open when it was run over or it might have had more than cosmetic issues. Good luck with the cleaning and glad you found it.
 
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