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I EDC'd one of those Ka-Bar multi-blade folders as a kid ( ~1952-1962).
I recall they all had black jigged scales, and came NIB with the dullest edge you ever saw !! It took forever (+ a couple of weeks) on a really agressive Arkansas stone to edge them up properly, then quite a while on a fine Arkansas to get them to shave. I recall the blisters I got sitting around the fireplace at my uncle's farm in Missouri ( ~ 1955), listening to tall tales from the depression years, while grinding a suitable edge on my brand new Ka-Bar stockman that I bought especially for our yearly visit to the woods of central Mo.
Good days then...I wish I still had that Ka-Bar !
Funny, I was just playing with a rusty old Ka-Bar stockman from around that era a few minutes ago. I've been organizing my knives and cleaning some of them up and had forgotten all about that little old stockman.
It needs to be cleaned up badly, but it's still tight and has good snap on all three blades, and doesn't look like it was ever used too much... not sure where I got it though.
If I get it cleaned up tonight, I'll throw up a few pictures.