Local pawn shop buy. Was this knife worth the money?

bb6tuner

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So today before work, I decided to go and check out my local pawn shop. As usual, I went to go check out the knives first and look at what I found for $19.99... A D2 Mini-Griptilian. I bought it fast. It's definitely used, but has some character. I went ahead and took it apart to clean and sharpen it, because it was full of pocket lint, and so dull that it probably wouldn't have cut warm butter.

I have a question for everybody. Have you ever found a good deal (at least to you) on a folding pocket knife at a pawn shop?

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I never find deals like that.:mad:

You definitely scored!

Looks like a great EDC user. Did it sharpen up well?
 
Thank you all, and this D2 blade actually took a lot more patience to sharpen than the D2 on my Benchmade 51. It is hair whittling sharp now with no more chips. ;)
 
you just bought the perfect beater knife. its high quality, very cheep and already beat up. i would personally use that for all of my nasty chores.
 
And to think that this is an 80+ knife. Sweet score, OP.
 
Damn! I don't think I could have could have bought that quicker if I saw it. Awesome deal you got!

On a side note, pawn shops here blow. No good knives at all...
 
There are no knife people here so the pawnshops here have as much knife variety as wally world. I'm jealous. The best thing I've found in a pawnshop is my Japanese CS Voyager.
 
Down there at the pawn shop, its the only way to shop!

Great score man!
 
From local pawnshops and thrift stores I have purchased a stainless Kershaw Leek dated 03, buck 112 and a el Salvadoran machete with hand made sheath for $20 dollars each. Luck of the draw, makes me wonder what I've missed.
 
dkb45 said:
pawn shops here blow. No good knives at all...
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If your pawnshops suck it could also be that your thieves suck as well and/or the police are doing a good reminding the pawn shops that fencing stolen goods is illegal. I doubt a knife collector would take their good stuff to a pawn shop so I usually figure they got there some other way.
 
That is awesome!!! $20 bucks for a custom Mini Grip is the deal of the century. Great find! New, those run about $135.
 
Not a pawn shop and not me but a very good friend,
went to a Car boot sale (I guess you'd call it a Car Trunk sale?) and saw a very well used knife and sheath
that looked like an Alan Wood/Ray Mears Woodlore. It was covered in muck so he couldn't make out the makers mark.
The sheath was wrong and the blade shape slightly different so he thought it was either a fake or a "clone" (Homage to another knife)
The guy wanted £20 (or so) for it. So my friend took a chance & bought it.
When he got it home and cleaned it up he realised he had one of the very early Woodlore blades from before Ray was on TV. The knives were presented as part of passing
Ray's Bushcraft courses and that was the only way to acquire said knife. Probably one of the first 30 woodlores ever made. The blade profile had less belly than the ones made after RM went on TV (RM decided it needed more belly for skinning purposes) and the sheath was made by Alan Wood rather than the later sub-contracted out (once the TV series premiered).
I can't imagine how the guy at the boot sale acquired it. Plainly not the original owner. My friend felt guilty for picking up a £300 or so knife for £20 and went back to the boot sale a few times since to try and give the guy more money, but he never showed again.
 
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