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Salamander42

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I bought a beater car the other day and as I was cleaning it out I found that it came complete with a beater knife:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38624080@N00/931814310/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38624080@N00/931814350/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38624080@N00/931814408/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38624080@N00/931814588/

Between my poor photography skills and my crappy camera I couldn't get any really good shots, but that blade is just mutilated. It looks like someone went at it with a dremel or something in an attempt to sharpen it. And that sharpened section that they ground on the top of the blade. . . :barf:

One of these days when I have time I'll see what I can do to make it a little more aesthetically pleasing. . . Take off about a half inch of blade length and re-shape the blade to get rid of that edge on the back and then flatten out the bevels and sharpen it up. Hopefully I can make a user out of it again.
 
Crikey, what's wrong with it that a half hour of sharpening won't fix? Consider yourself lucky to find that.
 
Coldwood said:
Crikey, what's wrong with it that a half hour of sharpening won't fix? Consider yourself lucky to find that.
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After a few minutes with a diamond bench stone I've found that the bevels aren't as bad as I had first thought. . . You can't see it well, if at all, in the pics I took, but the bevels looked almost like a flaked stone knife. . . kind of scalloped and very uneven. They weren't as bad as they looked though, and are almost flat again already. It's the bit they sharpened on the back that's really bad. Not much I can do there without removing quite a bit of material. Not sure what I'm going to do there.

I do consider myself very lucky to have found it, just unlucky that it had been so abused. The handle and pivot and lock are all in decent shape, and I think I can clean up the blade without too much work. It's not quite as bad as I had thought from my first impressions.
 
MrSuicide said:
looks like a pretty cool spyderco worker to me. i dont see anything wrong with it.

http://www.ameyoko.net/marukin/html/factory/spy-worker.html
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Oh, I didn't realize that there was an edge on the top of the blade originaly. . . I thought that the previous owner had ground that out. That changes my opinion a little bit too, but it's still a shame what they did to this thing in their attempts to "sharpen" it.

Thanks for the ID on the knife. . . I thought it was an oder version of the Delica. I didn't realize that it was the original Spyderco knife. That makes it sooo much better of a find!
 
Salamander, that one might be worth a tune up ant the Spyderco factory. They do good work. That's what I'd do. There's a lot of knife left in it. They were built very well, and worth taking care of. Joe
 
Ya know, I never intended to be a knife collector - Then something like this drops in my lap! Life's hard sometimes.:p
 
That is Spyderco's first model. The C01 Worker. I would send it back to Spyderco and get it sharpened and "tuned up". She'll be nice when she comes back.

That's not what I would consider a "beater" knife. :)
 
+1 for sending it to Golden.

It would be a real shame not to do this; I'm sure you will be surprised what you'll get back in a few weeks. Definitely go for it, you won't regret it.


Dennis
 
Bungwrench said:
That's not what I would consider a "beater" knife. :)
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Yeah, now that I know what exactly I've got, my opinion has changed quite a bit. In my ignorance I thought it was an earlier version of a Delica. I thought the sharpened bit on the back of the blade had been added by whoever did the rest of the damage to the blade. I'll probably follow everyone's advice and send it off to the factory for a little refurbishing.
 
Ohh, if only I were to find a C01 Worker in such a shape as that. I'd send it out to Golden and it'd find plenty of things to cut. Nor would I feel bad about using it, as it has already seen much love.
 
One more thing, since it's got SS handles you can polish those things back up to look like brand new. I've done this before with some 400 grit and then 600 grit sandpaper. The stainless handle then looks like it came from the factory. ;)

If you decide to do this make sure that you tape off the blade with some masking tape first so that you don't sand it on accident.
 
That's a nice beater, especially for free. Its always a shame to see that some one has mis-treated a nice knife like that. I'll add another vote for sending it in to Spyderco.
 
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