Buzzbait
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Here are a couple I brought in for show and tell.
The first is just an old Schrade Old Timer 80T. I've been abusing this knife for years. Works great. Walk and talk is awesome. Lots of patina on the blades. The sheepsfoot was completely reprofiled when I first bought it, to a very acute chisel grind. Great whittling knife. Saw cut Delrin may not be the most beautiful or exotic scale material in the world, but it is quite good for a working man's knife.
I remember buying this knife after seeing an old guy whittling wood in the Adirondacks. He was dirt poor, and would whittle stuff to sell to passers by. I asked him about whittling knives. He showed me his 80T and said that it was "the only pocket knife worth a crap for whittling".
The second is a Camillus TL-29. This was the knife issued to my father-in-law during the Korean War. He recently asked my to tear it apart, clean it, replace the scales, tighten the pivot, and sharpen the blades. I honestly couldn't allow myself to ruin such a wonderful piece of family history, so I've done nothing to it. I just ordered up a slightly more modern Camillus TL-29 (Vietnam era), brand spanking new, for him to start using. I'll give both the new and old TL29 to him later this month, for father's day.
The knife has nothing left in the tank. No walk or talk left in its soul. The main blade is a pale shadow of its former self. The wood scales are starting to crack. Is that a liner lock? And people thought that liner locks are a recent development!!!! Hehehehehehehe.
The first is just an old Schrade Old Timer 80T. I've been abusing this knife for years. Works great. Walk and talk is awesome. Lots of patina on the blades. The sheepsfoot was completely reprofiled when I first bought it, to a very acute chisel grind. Great whittling knife. Saw cut Delrin may not be the most beautiful or exotic scale material in the world, but it is quite good for a working man's knife.
I remember buying this knife after seeing an old guy whittling wood in the Adirondacks. He was dirt poor, and would whittle stuff to sell to passers by. I asked him about whittling knives. He showed me his 80T and said that it was "the only pocket knife worth a crap for whittling".
The second is a Camillus TL-29. This was the knife issued to my father-in-law during the Korean War. He recently asked my to tear it apart, clean it, replace the scales, tighten the pivot, and sharpen the blades. I honestly couldn't allow myself to ruin such a wonderful piece of family history, so I've done nothing to it. I just ordered up a slightly more modern Camillus TL-29 (Vietnam era), brand spanking new, for him to start using. I'll give both the new and old TL29 to him later this month, for father's day.
The knife has nothing left in the tank. No walk or talk left in its soul. The main blade is a pale shadow of its former self. The wood scales are starting to crack. Is that a liner lock? And people thought that liner locks are a recent development!!!! Hehehehehehehe.
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