Wharnie scout knife: this was no boating accident!

[screened porch]

That is I think someone deliberately did this.

I got this for $2 the other day. It's a Camillus and I've been feeling guilty about a 1$ Camillus I messed up.

Someone seems to have wanted that straight-edged main blade on this one. He ground down the kick to get the new point low enough.

I had to hollow out the back of the cap-lifter so I can reach the nail nick on the long blade.

 

[jackknife]

I'd say that knife had a full life of being somebody's pocket companion and work tool. Used it like it was designed to be used, but the fact that it survived shows it was not abused to destruction. Actually pretty good.:thumbup:

Carl.

 

[MarkPinTx]

Yeah I think that's a naturally worn blade. I have a half dozen or more of my grandfather's knives and the blades of his are kind of like that, in many cases much worse. He used zero angle and a soft washita or carborundum pocket stone. Ate blades pretty quickly it appears.

 

[TLARbb]

Those gray carborundum whetstones will grind of a lot of steel. I've never been able to get a knife sharp with one, but have used the coarse one to work nicks and such out of blades prior to finishing the edge with a Norton india stone. I've seen lots of knives that were sharpened like that and the belly ground away over time. Others that were worn recurve by using a narrow pocket stone instead of a flat bench stone.

Ed J

 

[MarkPinTx]

Yeah he used a finer one, just the ones given by the Farm Bureau agents etc. He wore a bunch of stones curved too. He could get em dam sharp too. Whittled and carved Cypress.

 

[screened porch]

I stand corrected.
My own grandpa used a hand-cranked wheel to eat up his knives, so to me this looks unnaturally straight for natural wear. But if this guy used a broad hand-stone instead of a narrow wheel or stick,...
Still a lot of life in it, anyway.