Show off your "hurt" knives

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bdev

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Most of the knives posted on the forum are beautiful and well cared for. What about all those "hurt" knives that do not get much respect?
Show off your broken, sharpened down, cracked, etc. , knives that don't see the light of day that often.
Show us what ya got! :)

Here's one of mine. A Queen Steel coke bottle jack circa 1958-60. Cracked bone and sharpened quite a bit.

 
Here's an old Colonial electrician's knife. It's got maybe 75 or 80% of the main blade left. Looks like it broke at some point, because there are file marks on the spine, starting aft of the nail nick and going all the way to the tip. It's also lost alot of width from sharpening. cuts and carries great though, love the full length screw driver. Sorry for the recycled pic.
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I dont really have one. I have got this OCD or something, where i have to keep my knives pristine. I think i care about my knives more than my own health. I did find this Imperial at a garage sale that i never fixed up yet:

 
I can't resist a great old wreck. Here are a few from the wreck collection.

Best regards

Robin

This is the rarest of the wrecks, Rodgers C. 1830, either Geo 4 or William 4, a quill knife with a Guillotine for the tip of the quill, ivory scales. The tip of the pointed quill is put into the "nail nick" in the handle, then you compress the closed master blade which clips the tip off the quill.
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Italian, 18th century, brass over horn scales, dug up in my garden in Ontario Canada.
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A celluloid (Remington??) canoe with a great Russell clip blade. I think this one was an early "for work" replacement. I'm not really a clip blade fan but I love this old russel blade.
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These three are not wrecks but far from mint, pretty well cared for. A Hammer peanut, a Voos jack and a really neat Pal with an original Remington marked master blade, likely 1941 when the Rem patterns were sold to Pal and Remingtom allowed them to use some old blades from the early remington period.
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Tip broken off and reprofiled. Missing a bolster. Still sharp, still cuts. This is a Parker-Frost made in 1978, which is essentially a Schrade 194OT with bone scales. I bought it new in 1979. I took relatively good care of it, the bolster just fell off one day. I don't recall how I broke the tip off but likely from trying to use it as a fine tip screwdriver.
 
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Miller Bros over a something knife co (l) and Hammer Brand USA (r). The pen on the Hammer is in pretty good shape because the spring is broken and you need a screwdriver to open it. I try not to buy any more like the blue one (ca $5). The Miller is borderline ($12 for this and a Wards very like it). The Hammer was only $1, and I couldn't leave it in the dollar tray at an antique store after all it's been through.
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That sodbuster is crazy. I wish I could stick to a knife long enough to use it up like that. Perhaps I should stop acquiring them.
 
I was thinking the same thing but I really like getting new knives too!!
ddml said:
That sodbuster is crazy. I wish I could stick to a knife long enough to use it up like that. Perhaps I should stop acquiring them.
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This one sustained some minor injuries I suppose, in an unfortunate encounter with a grinder or dremel tool. I knew it had been cleaned by a dummy, but was hoping for the best.


The handles are excellent old jigged bone.


OUCH!


UGH!

I know it is just cosmetic, but I would have liked it with the patina. :grumpy:
 
That Miller Bros is really nice. I would snap one like it up in a heartbeat.

And thawk, that Camillus is a goldie! Love the bone! And full blades, too? Nice.
 
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