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Been trying to get my hands on a T.W. Ablett Littlemesters of Sheffield knife for over ten years now.
They just don't come up often and gone in a flash.

So I was emailing with a guy who has an ebay store ... rated 100% positive, 2.8K items sold, 370 followers.
He'd previously had an Ablett but it was sold.
After some emails back and forth, he said he had one more Ablett and it was the last of them.

Pulled the trigger tonight and for MUCH less than I expected to pay. A down right shocking bargain I'll say.

I don't have a 100% "warm fuzzy" on this yet and not sure how soon it will ship. But he acknowledged he received payment.
Thing is, his ebay store is down until May 27th. He is in the process of moving his store an hour away from current location.
So while I'm feeling a tinge of "hinky" I have my hopes up and greatly look forward to shipping information.

The hinky not warm fuzzy has a little to do with what he said when he emailed these pictures.
Either he doesn't know much about pocket knife material OR (he's just looking at pictures of something he doesn't have)
Along with the pictures, he said he thought the handle was bone. It's obviously horn.

There were 3 other pictures but these show the gist of it.

The wait begins ... good or bad. Fingers crossed.

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BrotherJim said:
Been trying to get my hands on a T.W. Ablett Littlemesters of Sheffield knife for over ten years now.
They just don't come up often and gone in a flash.

So I was emailing with a guy who has an ebay store ... rated 100% positive, 2.8K items sold, 370 followers.
He'd previously had an Ablett but it was sold.
After some emails back and forth, he said he had one more Ablett and it was the last of them.

Pulled the trigger tonight and for MUCH less than I expected to pay. A down right shocking bargain I'll say.

I don't have a 100% "warm fuzzy" on this yet and not sure how soon it will ship. But he acknowledged he received payment.
Thing is, his ebay store is down until May 27th. He is in the process of moving his store an hour away from current location.
So while I'm feeling a tinge of "hinky" I have my hopes up and greatly look forward to shipping information.

The hinky not warm fuzzy has a little to do with what he said when he emailed these pictures.
Either he doesn't know much about pocket knife material OR (he's just looking at pictures of something he doesn't have)
Along with the pictures, he said he thought the handle was bone. It's obviously horn.

There were 3 other pictures but these show the gist of it.

The wait begins ... good or bad. Fingers crossed.

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zZjBHHT.jpeg


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Congrats on your find. It should definitely be worth the wait. The fit and finish on mine are spot on.
 
Will Power said:
@BrotherJim Good luck on your find :cool: I have 2 Abletts, Stag Barlow type shown and a really good Stag Ettrick. Workmanlike and attractive.

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Nice Will !!! And Thanks :)

Geoffrey Tweedale said about Mr Ablett ...
"Trevor specialised in folding knives, which were sold to be used. He made dozens of attractive (but modestly priced) one/two-blade pocket knives a week."
 
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One ill lit and one ill framed, but-
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440 stainless. I don't know what the point is of not specifying which 440.
It's rated four stars where I bought it, and the main complaint seems to be "It's too heavy". You can get this sort of thing with a wispy flexible blade, but I didn't want that.
This is balanced about 5" from the bottom of the guard or 7" from the bottom of the grip. AI tells me the originals were balanced 5 or 6 inches from the guard, so we're pretty close.
The scabbard near the throat grips the blade somehow. The locket of the scabbard fits snugly into a recess in the guard.
There's one cosmetic flaw: the pommel isn't quite coplanar with the blade and guard.
It's going to stand up to the the Xing Yi Five Elements form just fine. An excellent sword for the purpose and a fantastic sword for the price.
 
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I picked this up because of the price, and the color/jigging really jumped out to me. I'm a big 47 pattern fan. It's awesome deep red that I haven't seen.

Commemorative release for the Orange County Choppers TV show. Couldn't really care less that, but it is was new, didn't have the original tin, so it was cheap.
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