Found this in the river the other day. No idea how long it had been there, I'd guess 30 or 40 years anyway. The handle was a solid mass of rust, but the blade was still shiny. I took it home and used a steel wire wheel to remove all the rust, and then oiled what was left, a textured pebbled, cratered dark and shiny metallic surface. I kind of like it, and I can truly say that there is no knife exactly like it in the world! And it would take several decades to make another one; I like that idea (although I'm sure one could cheap and soak it in brine or other corrosive chemicals). I also think that a fair amount of the overall blade material was removed by scouring from the silt in the river, judging by the faint letters of the "Stainless Steel" marking. Not sure if that's plausible or not.
It's a nice large, flexy old fashioned butter knife too, much better than the ones I find in the stores these days. So I'm kind of tickled with it (nice to be an easy-to-please person!). I put it here kind of as a joke, but I also wasn't sure where else to post it. I used to have a favorite tea cup, a indigo blue mug with a crack in it and a two-tone paintjob where it sat in the sun for years before I found it beside some abandoned railroad tracks behind an old creamery building, but it seems to have vanished since then. I have my suspicions. I like stuff like that, it has character. The more patina the better, in my eyes.
It's a nice large, flexy old fashioned butter knife too, much better than the ones I find in the stores these days. So I'm kind of tickled with it (nice to be an easy-to-please person!). I put it here kind of as a joke, but I also wasn't sure where else to post it. I used to have a favorite tea cup, a indigo blue mug with a crack in it and a two-tone paintjob where it sat in the sun for years before I found it beside some abandoned railroad tracks behind an old creamery building, but it seems to have vanished since then. I have my suspicions. I like stuff like that, it has character. The more patina the better, in my eyes.
