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My whole life I have been fascinated with knives, Older now I have time to start my life long captivated curiosity, making a knife from scrape.
Thru the years I have hunted garage sales flee markets and off the wall stores, finding some nice factory and shop made knifes, only with great pain having the need to sell them to keep up with the bills.
Now all that having paid off and everything I own is now truly owned and paid for including the home, I’m wondering, where I would be now if I was to have kept all them old knifes that I cherished, stuffed them away in a little wooden box and every so often on a cold or wet and rainy day pull them out from under the bed and caress each one with a fine grain stone just enough to give them a new shine keeping the oxidation away from slowly eating away the razors edge.
I have seen some brilliant craftsmanship; my favorite was a fixed blade skinner with a ¼” thick blade made of steel that only one could dream of getting sharp, wondering how am I ever going to get this thing sharp!
Disappointed for years but never giving up hope, trying everything stored away in my beloved box of stones picked up from all my travels around the country would come close to cutting a fine edge on the steel blade forged in a fire started by the knife gods from a steel only known to them from the beyond.
Then one day by luck I find this small insignificant ¼”x 1”x 3.1/2” red plastic with a magical substance on the surface 5 minutes later the beautiful steel was shaving the hair on my arm only having to sell one more knife saying to myself,,,, here goes another one I will never see again.
Anyway this is a great forum and I hope to be welcome here and able to learn and share while enjoying what has always been a hobby locked in turmoil of finance and the sport of hunting the next great one of a kind beauty.
Here is one I just picked up thinking it’s a 4th version 1st variation 1970-1972
Is this correct?
the spacer is a separate piece
all the pins are brass dont look to have heads
2 pins on the butt of the knife
sheath has brass snap with buck on the leather and snap and on the back stamped 110 on the sheath not the belt loop
Thru the years I have hunted garage sales flee markets and off the wall stores, finding some nice factory and shop made knifes, only with great pain having the need to sell them to keep up with the bills.
Now all that having paid off and everything I own is now truly owned and paid for including the home, I’m wondering, where I would be now if I was to have kept all them old knifes that I cherished, stuffed them away in a little wooden box and every so often on a cold or wet and rainy day pull them out from under the bed and caress each one with a fine grain stone just enough to give them a new shine keeping the oxidation away from slowly eating away the razors edge.
I have seen some brilliant craftsmanship; my favorite was a fixed blade skinner with a ¼” thick blade made of steel that only one could dream of getting sharp, wondering how am I ever going to get this thing sharp!
Disappointed for years but never giving up hope, trying everything stored away in my beloved box of stones picked up from all my travels around the country would come close to cutting a fine edge on the steel blade forged in a fire started by the knife gods from a steel only known to them from the beyond.
Then one day by luck I find this small insignificant ¼”x 1”x 3.1/2” red plastic with a magical substance on the surface 5 minutes later the beautiful steel was shaving the hair on my arm only having to sell one more knife saying to myself,,,, here goes another one I will never see again.
Anyway this is a great forum and I hope to be welcome here and able to learn and share while enjoying what has always been a hobby locked in turmoil of finance and the sport of hunting the next great one of a kind beauty.
Here is one I just picked up thinking it’s a 4th version 1st variation 1970-1972
Is this correct?
the spacer is a separate piece
all the pins are brass dont look to have heads
2 pins on the butt of the knife
sheath has brass snap with buck on the leather and snap and on the back stamped 110 on the sheath not the belt loop
