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Squashfan

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Stop at a relatively new pawn shop in my area. I had been there several month ago and seen a Buck 315 rigger's knife. The owner had $50 on it, which was more than I wanted to pay, and wouldn't come down. That was about 4 months ago. I happened to stop back this morning. Low and behold, the Buck still lying there at the same price. A different clerk asked if he could help me. So I started looking around because there were lots of Case knives. I found a red Case Canoe with $35 on it. Red is my favorite color. I thought that the canoe was a good deal so I put it with the Buck. Now, while I am standing looking at the knives, the clerk walks past me and put a Case in the case. And it is a congress!!! In red no less. It has $30 on it. By this time, I had decided to get the Buck and canoe. So I pick up all three and ask if he would do me a deal. He looks at the three knives and says how does $100 dollars sound? SOLD!!!

The main sheepsfoot blade on the congress has lost some of its snap but it is still quite usable. For some reason the Buck's blade is hitting the back spring when the marlin spike is opened. I put a three-times-folded piece of paper under the kick and that seems to have resolved the problem but I will keep an eye on it.









 
Great! The Case are nice, but getting that Sailor in the deal is the sealer (or is "sealer" a different pattern altogether :D).

I've been wanting a marlin spiked knife for quite awhile, but I don't sail and don't work rope large enough to actually use it so I've held off on getting one until I pretty much fall into one at a price I can't say no too. I'm so bad I don't even want to pay the online retail price for the RR versions. Someday, some auction will be closing with no or a single, uncommitted bid, low opening bid, and with free shipping or a few dollars at most. Then I'll pounce.

That's a round about way of saying I'm happy for you and understand your joy at scoring the sailor for a good price AND the two case "Reds."
 
I do a lot of work with paracord (just made my cat a collar from 550 cord) and was looking at ordering RR sailor's knife anyway. How could I say no?
 
Squashfan said:
I do a lot of work with paracord (just made my cat a collar from 550 cord) and was looking at ordering RR sailor's knife anyway. How could I say no?
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Ya know... Maybe it's time someone designed and marketed a paracordist's version of the sailor knife. Instead of a full sized marlin spike, something more like a fid sized for 550. Maybe a small hook blade sort of like a gut hook on bird knife, but sized to slip through loops, catch the working end and pulling it through. Traditional material for the scales and some of the elegant aesthetics of a traditional build instead of a modern.
 
Amos Iron Wolf said:
Ya know... Maybe it's time someone designed and marketed a paracordist's version of the sailor knife. Instead of a full sized marlin spike, something more like a fid sized for 550. Maybe a small hook blade sort of like a gut hook on bird knife, but sized to slip through loops, catch the working end and pulling it through. Traditional material for the scales and some of the elegant aesthetics of a traditional build instead of a modern.
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That would be a nice knife to see. Thought it seems like this spike works pretty well for the knots I have tried it on. If I could do anything, I would sharpen the spike because it is a little thick at the tip. Not too thick though.
 
That was the last model Buck 315 produced. Camillus made that one for Buck and made one with their own name on it also.

300Bucks
 
Nice finds! The Case knives I see secondhand around here are usually pretty well chewed up. As for that Buck, very nice indeed! I have a Colonial rigger's knife that I use when I work with paracord. Wet-molded a leather utility knife sheath around it to pack it about. Wish I could find a Buck version, or a Ka-Bar. All of the riggers we have locally are either Colonials, Smith and Wessons or Rough Riders.
 
Niiice.Well done.I hope you said to ring you if they get anything else like this in.
 
meako said:
Niiice.Well done.I hope you said to ring you if they get anything else like this in.
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They had other that weren't as good of a deal. They were newer and higher priced. I also sorta, kinda ran out of money... :o

300Bucks, I saw that great thread about this pattern you put up. Very informative.
 
So maybe my mini-version of a sailor's knife already exists. I saw this on the bay this evening and won it. It's an old Schrade of some sort. But the basic layout and the "needle" just grabbed my attention. I figured for the tiny price it was worth taking a closer look. I'll have to post more on it in it's own thread when I get it in my hands.

Note: Photo is from closed listing.
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Not meaning to hijack. Just found it odd I've never seen one of these and it pops up right after we're talking about something like it for paracording.

Squash, you need to post some photos of that Buck with some paracord projects soon!
 
So maybe my mini-version of a sailor's knife already exists. I saw this on the bay this evening and won it. It's an old Schrade of some sort. But the basic layout and the "needle" just grabbed my attention. I figured for the tiny price it was worth taking a closer look. I'll have to post more on it in it's own thread when I get it in my hands.

Note: Photo is from closed listing of a knife I purchased and used under fair use for editorial and educational purposes.
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Not meaning to hijack. Just found it odd I've never seen one of these and it pops up right after we're talking about something like it for paracording.

Squash, you need to post some photos of that Buck with some paracord projects soon!
 
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