I stopped off at the local sporting goods store tonight, to check out a used Marlin 60 I had my eye on, I saw it a few months back, and was planning on picking it up, but it had an issue where it wouldn't fire on the first trigger pull, second pull would release the hammer, so the gunsmith pulled it off the floor and put it in the repair queue
It was fixed today, of course, by now, I already had a Marlin 60, an older gun that was in poor shape that I restored (poor external shape, but nice sharp bore), I compared my restored 60 to the one I saw a few months back, and decided to keep my restored gun
Anyway....
While I was there, I stopped at the knife counter, looking at the used blades, nothing caught my eye, looked like the same inventory as last time, no, wait, there's a yeller Case Large Stockman that wasn't there last time, I took a closer look....
Large Stockman pattern, gleaming chromed blades, still with the factory edge, I unfolded the pen blade, expecting to see "SS", but I saw...
USA
3375
CV
Jackpot! Carbon Steel, Case CV Chrome Vanadium steel, one of my favorites
It came home with me, where it got a touch up on the Sharpmaker, and a nice coat of Break Free CLP on the blades, pivots and springs, it'll be joining me at work tomorrow, it'll bump out my orange Benchmade 551 Grip and Spyderhawk from my pockets (they'll be bumped into my laptop bag, so they won't be *that* far away
), In fact, I think tomorrow will be another "Traditionals" day...
Hmm, maybe tomorrow should be a Carbon Steel day (Case Yeller Stockman and Trapper, Boker Stockman, Opinel No*8)....
It was fixed today, of course, by now, I already had a Marlin 60, an older gun that was in poor shape that I restored (poor external shape, but nice sharp bore), I compared my restored 60 to the one I saw a few months back, and decided to keep my restored gun
Anyway....
While I was there, I stopped at the knife counter, looking at the used blades, nothing caught my eye, looked like the same inventory as last time, no, wait, there's a yeller Case Large Stockman that wasn't there last time, I took a closer look....
Large Stockman pattern, gleaming chromed blades, still with the factory edge, I unfolded the pen blade, expecting to see "SS", but I saw...
USA
3375
CV
Jackpot! Carbon Steel, Case CV Chrome Vanadium steel, one of my favorites
It came home with me, where it got a touch up on the Sharpmaker, and a nice coat of Break Free CLP on the blades, pivots and springs, it'll be joining me at work tomorrow, it'll bump out my orange Benchmade 551 Grip and Spyderhawk from my pockets (they'll be bumped into my laptop bag, so they won't be *that* far away
), In fact, I think tomorrow will be another "Traditionals" day...Hmm, maybe tomorrow should be a Carbon Steel day (Case Yeller Stockman and Trapper, Boker Stockman, Opinel No*8)....
