Post your ordinary used knives. [Injudicious Revival: Let's let it die again]l

[screened porch]

My recent finds rarely rate a thread to themselves. However, "Old knives" is full of ancient and marvelous knives in pristine condition, and "Recent Aquisitions" is full of expensive new knives. I blush to post in either of those.

So here are my recent $3.00 bin knives, as threatened in another thread. Anybody else who likes ordinary knives, please share them here.
Japanese Barlow, more slenderly built than my Japanese Saber Barlow, but still quite solid; and Victorinox advertiser (scout pattern plus pen plus corkscrew). The little douk-douk-oid, which was called a trim trio around these parts, was 25 cents at an estate sale: centennial memorabilia for the Detroit Valley Scottish Rite Masons.

Same knives with a Dexter steak scimitar that makes me want to swing over someone's rail and run amok in their rigging.

 

[BigBiscuit]

Blasphemy! There's no such thing as ordinary. Slummers? I think not. They're all good in my opinion.
Here's a "plebeian" knife I've had since about 1968.

 

[screened porch]

It's a beaut.

 

[black mamba]

Oh, I have some slummers! But my mama didn't raise no children foolish enough to post their mistakes all over the internet.

 

[screened porch]

From first line to second page in 12 hours! Maybe a record?
I've broadened the title and softened the language to give it one more try.

 

[BigBiscuit]

Is that an old Dexter-Russell butchers knife?

 

[screened porch]

It's a Dexter, which I guess makes it older than the fusion of Dexter and Russell, but it's stainless. I haven't tried to sharpen it yet. At $7.50, I couldn't resist it.

 

[Peter Parker]

 

[arizonaranchman]

Blasphemy! There's no such thing as ordinary. Slummers? I think not. They're all good in my opinion.
Here's a "plebeian" knife I've had since about 1968.

That's a true classic BB!!!

 

[jc57]

I'm a little confused - I thought the thread was about recently purchased bargain-bin beaters? Other than the first post, the others seem to be very good condition knives or in one case a knife that is old but was purchased new.

I don't guess I can really contribute (though I appreciate the spirit and purpose of the thread) since I don't have anything that I have bought used that wasn't in pretty decent condition. I do have plenty of what I consider "ordinary" knives but most of them were purchased new.

 

[r8shell]

I have some like that, but I usually don't take any pictures until I get around to repairing or carrying them. Maybe this weekend I'll have a chance to do some tinkering.

 

[BigBiscuit]

I'm a little confused - I thought the thread was about recently purchased bargain-bin beaters? Other than the first post, the others seem to be very good condition knives or in one case a knife that is old but was purchased new.

I don't guess I can really contribute (though I appreciate the spirit and purpose of the thread) since I don't have anything that I have bought used that wasn't in pretty decent condition. I do have plenty of what I consider "ordinary" knives but most of them were purchased new.

Hi John. True that's one I bought new a long time ago. But I consider it cheap (it was very cheap at the time of purchase) and very ordinary. The OP did post some that he found in a cheap bin sale, but he also welcomed ordinary knives. I thought mine fit that description.

 

[Peregrin]

My recent finds rarely rate a thread to themselves. However, "Old knives" is full of ancient and marvelous knives in pristine condition, and "Recent Aquisitions" is full of expensive new knives. I blush to post in either of those.

So here are my recent $3.00 bin knives, as threatened in another thread. Anybody else who likes ordinary knives, please share them here.
Japanese Barlow, more slenderly built than my Japanese Saber Barlow, but still quite solid; and Victorinox advertiser (scout pattern plus pen plus corkscrew). The little douk-douk-oid, which was called a trim trio around these parts, was 25 cents at an estate sale: centennial memorabilia for the Detroit Valley Scottish Rite Masons.

That's the way I read it too.

 

[Jack Black]

I'd snap up any of these! I've got a houseful of ordinarier knives than that!

Oh, I have some slummers! But my mama didn't raise no children foolish enough to post their mistakes all over the internet.

LOL! Harsh!

 

[jc57]

Ah, I guess my reading comprehension skills are off a bit today. I do consider most of my collection pretty ordinary with no particular "collector value." That is, none of them are in the "ancient and marvelous" category and relatively few are in the "expensive new" category.

 

[BigBiscuit]

But they're all good John. :thumbup: Without ordinary knives, most of us wouldn't have evolved to where we are now on this site. I would venture to guess that the majority of us were introduced to knives in general with that ordinary cheap knife.

 

[btmccutcheon]

Pick one.

 

[Will Power]

What a refreshing change! Grand idea a kind of everymans' knife thread: Ordinary Cool.

I hope this qualifies? It's tough, a bit of a roughouse actually, feels good in the hand, doesn't mind a turn in the tool-box or the floor ! Picks himself up and carries on very well and functionally, no pretense here - all about utility. Came cheap and ready! Böker, Argentina, Sodbuster.

Look forward to more unsung heroes appearing here.:thumbup:

Regards, Will

 

[5K Qs]

My recent finds rarely rate a thread to themselves. However, "Old knives" is full of ancient and marvelous knives in pristine condition, and "Recent Aquisitions" is full of expensive new knives. I blush to post in either of those.

So here are my recent $3.00 bin knives, as threatened in another thread. Anybody else who likes ordinary knives, please share them here.
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Same knives with a Dexter steak scimitar that makes me want to swing over someone's rail and run amok in their rigging.
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The description of your reaction to that steak knife is one of the best pieces of writing I've read in a while! :thumbup::thumbup: That short sentence sparked off a 2-minute video clip in my mind's eye of you "swashbuckling" with dagger in teeth, etc. etc., and I don't even know what you look like! (Any resemblance to Errol Flynn?? )

From first line to second page in 12 hours! Maybe a record?
I've broadened the title and softened the language to give it one more try.

Someone should do a study of this kind of stuff! I wonder if "traffic" in the traditional subforum is reliably correlated with day of the week, or time of day, or meteorological conditions across the country and the world (i.e., most of us develop routines or get in ruts), or whether the amount of attention a thread gets depends on whether the news of the release of a new model creates a frenzy that siphons off all interest in other topics.

I have some like that, but I usually don't take any pictures until I get around to repairing or carrying them. Maybe this weekend I'll have a chance to do some tinkering.

I tend to enjoy your reclamation projects, Rachel; hope you find something you can post here! :thumbup:

I'd snap up any of these! I've got a houseful of ordinarier knives than that!
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Jack, you silver-tongued devil, you have a gift with language!! :thumbup:

I like scrteened porch's idea here. One of my main goals when I suddenly redeveloped an interest in pocket knives about a year and a half ago was to find some inexpensive old knives that I could "rescue" with a little TLC and elbow grease, and thus get them back into circulation. I haven't been as successful in finding such knives on my own as I hoped to be. But like Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire", I have always depended on the kindness of strangers, and around here that's an effective strategy. Here's a few "rescue knives" that generous forumites have gifted me (some of which need some work this summer - the knives, not the people .

Last Rodeo "threw in" this Kutmaster in a trade we did one time; he did all the fix-up before he sent it to me.

davek14 has sent me several knives that are right up my alley in this regard. Here's one that he rescued himself and passed on; I call it my Imperial Silver Bullet:

Dave has also sent me some that would benefit from some additional TLC. Examples include the Holub TL-29 and the Colonial caplifter-equipped model below:

Renovations on these two are schedule to begin June 15!

- GT

 

[jc57]

I've got an old Schrade (technically a Parker-Frost) that has seen better days. It's certainly got the looks of an "ordinary" knife. I bought this one new in 1979.



Gary - if this would make for a good project knife (or parts donor) then you are welcome to it. Only reason I keep it around is that I feel a sense of responsibility towards it (odd as that may sound) since I have owned it so long. Leaving it unused in my knife drawer with its newer kin is OK, but throwing it out would be disrespectful.