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Is there a chance that the blade on this eBay item is SOP factory issue?
Jim
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Navy 697 Rigger with a Wharncliffe Master Blade?
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Is there a chance that the blade on this eBay item is SOP factory issue?
Jim
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Reshaped?
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...it's unanimous-- RESHAPED! The seller posted a few more photos -- a look at the obverse side shows that there's no nail nick. I'd been wondering if whoever had re-shaped the blade would have bothered to replace the pull -- nope.
Frustrating! The Wharncliffe is probably my single favorite blade profile.
Frustrating! The Wharncliffe is probably my single favorite blade profile.
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Finding this one late, and wanted to comment.
Like you said: rework. And it looks like somebody accomplished a nice swept top profile on it too. Much better than some hack jobs out there. (Some I've seen make me wish I had a house elf* I could sic on the twits who do that to good steel.
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For carving & Whittling, that blade would probably be similar to a Seahorse type. I'd love to get my hands on that one, as long as the tip hasn't been burned. I've converted many old broken, bent, and otherwise unloved blades into Wharncliffe profiles. They are usually really good for whittling & carving, and I can get a good working tool for cheap.
However, I can't figure out what would have happened to that thick ol' Camillus Rigger blade, to warrant the need for conversion to Wharncliffe.
~Chris
*Dobby is my favorite Harry Potter character.
Like you said: rework. And it looks like somebody accomplished a nice swept top profile on it too. Much better than some hack jobs out there. (Some I've seen make me wish I had a house elf* I could sic on the twits who do that to good steel.
)For carving & Whittling, that blade would probably be similar to a Seahorse type. I'd love to get my hands on that one, as long as the tip hasn't been burned. I've converted many old broken, bent, and otherwise unloved blades into Wharncliffe profiles. They are usually really good for whittling & carving, and I can get a good working tool for cheap.
However, I can't figure out what would have happened to that thick ol' Camillus Rigger blade, to warrant the need for conversion to Wharncliffe.
~Chris
*Dobby is my favorite Harry Potter character.
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Hey Chris:
While it does not appear that the knife was very hard-used, it might have been that a previous owner had been using it to cut some large diameter rope and was pounding on the spine of the sheepfoot blade. The pounder tool of choice would be a wooden mallet ...or maybe a large-sized wooden belaying pin. But, most novices would be tempted to grab a regular 20 oz. nailing hammer to pound the blade through and would eventually mushroom the blade's spine.