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Lately I've been looking for a Canoe pattern folder for a pocket carry. I found one at my local gunshow on a back table that I was able to trade one the knives that I made for. I got home and started looking it over. This is what I have. Three bladed Canoe patern marked NKCA one of 6000 in acid etch on the main blade. There is something else (perhaps a name) under the NKCA but it is in a script that is hard to read. The stamp on the main blade is : Rodgers Wostenholm England. Middle blade is a small spearpoint and is acid etched 1978. Third blade is a small drop point and rides on the opposing end of the second blade's spring. Liners are brass, bolsters are nickle silver. The actual four digit serial # beginning with 4 is stamped in the right front bolster.
It appears to have been carried very little if at all. The blades have never been sharpened and appear to have not been used at all. There are a few light scratches on two of the bolsters. Some light carbon is developed on the spine of the main and second blades. Scales appear to be very nice brown jigged bone.My question is: Should I go on about my business of carrying and using this knife? Am I nuts to use this knife versus putting it away. My only real investment in it is not financial but rather raw materials and time that it took me to make the knife that I traded.
Thanks for any info you can give on this little guy.
Doc
Lately I've been looking for a Canoe pattern folder for a pocket carry. I found one at my local gunshow on a back table that I was able to trade one the knives that I made for. I got home and started looking it over. This is what I have. Three bladed Canoe patern marked NKCA one of 6000 in acid etch on the main blade. There is something else (perhaps a name) under the NKCA but it is in a script that is hard to read. The stamp on the main blade is : Rodgers Wostenholm England. Middle blade is a small spearpoint and is acid etched 1978. Third blade is a small drop point and rides on the opposing end of the second blade's spring. Liners are brass, bolsters are nickle silver. The actual four digit serial # beginning with 4 is stamped in the right front bolster.
It appears to have been carried very little if at all. The blades have never been sharpened and appear to have not been used at all. There are a few light scratches on two of the bolsters. Some light carbon is developed on the spine of the main and second blades. Scales appear to be very nice brown jigged bone.My question is: Should I go on about my business of carrying and using this knife? Am I nuts to use this knife versus putting it away. My only real investment in it is not financial but rather raw materials and time that it took me to make the knife that I traded.
Thanks for any info you can give on this little guy.
Doc
