CVamberbonehead
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I have sold some knives that I regretted. Usually for a good reason though, like needing money for a move. So I cant whine too much.
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Two years back I was at the GEC Rendezvous and in the store they had a couple of the single spear blade 78s with the glitter gold scales. Just as I was pondering the purchase I had to run to join the final tour of the shop. When the tour was over an hour later the store was closed for the weekend.
A few days later I called to ask about purchasing it by mail order but the last one had been sold the prior day.
Also I hummed and hawed too long on the Kniveshipfree exclusive two blade blood red jigged bone Presidential. It also slipped away never too be seen again.
,,,Mike in Canada
Traded one as a kid and wish I still had it, but I have not been able to identify it.
As near as I can remember, this is a duplicate of my first knife. I had traded it to a friend and later tried to trade it back, but he refused. About 50 years later, I found this one in the 'Bay.
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He doesn't even know who put it on his blueprint table. It just appeared. It could have been one of the other trades, cleaners or stocker staff.How can we 'like' the guy who handed it in?![]()
So much promise. So badly made I had to get rid of it, was like fingernails down a blackboard. I've wondered if there were others which were better made but I'm not spending good money trying out the theory.
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I have sold some knives that I regretted. Usually for a good reason though, like needing money for a move. So I cant whine too much.
Bad recurve and uneven grind that required a full blade regrind to fix. Significant blade rub. The main blade was crinked over so drastically that it was an issue for cutting or sharpening and caused liner rub of the main blade. Badly sunken pin in the middle of the pivot (other side from picture), I wouldn't have minded a GEC style sunken pin in the scale itself but in the middle of the pivot itself it simply looked bad. As you can see it wasn't the only one either. Uneven gaps in the wood around the shield. Big gap between liner and scale due to one of the liners being bent.Looks OK from that shot. What was wrong with it then??
One I got, a bit later than the official time as it was a leftover was /is brilliant and I like it a lot. CS knives in my experience have been very patchy in QC though.....
My ebony pony jack is mine as well..Shane.....I remember your postings of this knife. For me there re two, an original TC Barlow 2 blade in ebony. Gave it away in 2012. The other was a #68 Pony Jack: I really wish I had that one back
Peter
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You should only sell Stag knives on days that end with a " Z " . Never on days that end with a " Y " .I’m just now getting in a groove of how to wisely buy and sell. I got this stag 86 and loved it, but thought I would love a Northwoods Heritage Jack more, so I sold the stag thinking I wouldn’t miss it since I already had a jigged bone 86. Well, I hated the Northwoods and wish that I had just held on to the stag.
I’ll reload with a stag in another pattern at some point. Just. Have. To. Wait. Patiently.
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You should only sell Stag knives on days that end with a " Z " . Never on days that end with a " Y " .
Harry