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5K Qs

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My wife, daughter, and I are vacationing in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, renting a cottage on Lake Huron in a town named Cedarville. This morning I decided to walk the 3.5 miles to Hessel, the next town west on the main road, to check out the Sunday flea market and an antique store next to the flea market site.Since I became interested in pocket knives more than a year and a half ago, I've been to many flea markets, garage sales, etc. in search of old knives I can "rescue", but have not had much luck finding them. But today was a marvelous exception! :D The flea market only had about a dozen tables and I wasn't expecting anything, but one guy had a box of old knives. Most of them were junk that didn't interest me at all, but I did find a Schrade USA 34OT and a Kutmaster Girl Scout knife. Then, at the nearby antique store, I was able to procure a SAK Classic (Wenger version - still called a Classic??) and a Richards "pipe knife" from Sheffield, England. I'm posting photos of the knives as I got them to serve as "before" pics. I hope to post pics later in the week after I have a chance to clean the knives up a bit.Here's the Wenger. It needs almost no cleaning.
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Here's the Richards pipe knife, with a bowl-scraping blade and a pipestem reamer (both quite rusty), as well as the "foot" at the end of the knife for tamping tobacco into the bowl. My first knife from storied Sheffield! If I can clean this one up, it will be oh-so-elegant! :rolleyes:
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Here's the 34OT. Needs some rust removed, and the sheep foot blade is kind of "lazy", but I think it will turn out to be a very nice stockman. I have a perfectly good 34OT, compliments of davek14, so I'm not sure why I bought this one, other than it seemed to be a deal I couldn't refuse.

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The Kutmaster scout knife is quite dirty, but should clean up easily; the main blade has some rust that will require some elbow grease, but I'm on vacation - I've got time.

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An interesting feature of this scout knife is that Dianne R. inscribed her name on the bolster; I hope she doesn't mind that I have her knife now!

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Here's the first pic I took of the scout knife, and my camera chose to focus on something different than I intended. Poor knife photo, but gives some idea of the sort of scenery I have to put up with last week and this one!

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- GT
 
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5K Qs said:
My wife, daughter, and I are vacationing in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, renting a cottage on Lake Huron in a town named Cedarville. This morning I decided to walk the 3.5 miles to Hessel, ....in search of old knives I can "rescue", .... I did find a Schrade USA 34OT ...


I have a perfectly good 34OT, compliments of davek14, so I'm not sure why I bought this one, ....
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Here's the first pic I took of the scout knife, and my camera chose to focus on something different than I intended. Poor knife photo, but gives some idea of the sort of scenery I have to put up with last week and this one!

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- GT
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Gary, it looks like you're having a restful time in a beautiful location.
That 34OT deserves to be rescued. I expect that today's finds will be a fun project for you when you get home.
Enjoy the remaining vacation time with your family. -RS-
 
Totally cool! Ever since I found my Colonial Ranger at a yard sale I have been to several antique stores and thrift stores in search of more knives. At this point, any traditionals I find are fair game. Haven't found anything other than crap. The search continues.
 
Nice finds my friend :) Enjoy the rest of your vacation :thumbup:
 
Great haul. They are few and far between good knives at good prices- all the more fun to find them.
 
Thanks to everyone for the complimentary comments about the knives I was able to acquire on vacation. :)
Thanks also to leghog for helping me out on the name of the little Wenger.
My wife and daughter nap often while on vacation, so I had time to work on cleaning the knives up a little. Here are current photos of 3 of the 4 knives (didn't have to do much to the Wenger) that you can compare to pics in the first post of this thread. When I get home, I hope I can find some metal polish that will clean up the blades a little more.

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- GT
 
Good job GT, they all turned out well.:thumbup::thumbup:
Great additions, one kinda unusual and 2 absolute classics, very nice!
 
Excellent GT, hope you're having a great vacation :thumbup:
 
Thanks, redsparrow, Bob, Jack, SBSteve, OH, and Harry. :)
Steve, I know it's hard to believe, but I took my tool box with us, as usual, and it had a can of WD40 and a pad of 000 steel wool, but DIDN'T have any metal polish! :eek::(:rolleyes:

(I picked up another knife at The Junk Trunk in Pickford MI, but I have my doubts that I'll be able to "rescue" it. It's a Kutmaster stockman with nice full (but rather rusty) blades and good covers, but 2 of the blades just swing open on their own if the knife is held spine up. The springs seem to be rusted into position against the liners and don't even engage those two blades.)

- GT
 
GT, nice finds and a good clean up, they show there age well now. Just a little elbow grease makes a big difference.
 
The knives look great Gary. One of the fun things about this hobby of ours is the excitement of the hunt, the butterflies in your tummy (like when my wife walks into a shoe store) and a new town brings new hunting grounds......ever feel the butterflies in your tummy!?
 
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