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Repaired a found knife, lotsa pics


LastRonin

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Nice job, looks like a keeper. My wife gets mad at me, as I will pull over on the road and wait for traffic to clear to get tools out of the road....'waste not' and all that.
One of my favorate knives was a Buck 55 I found and cleaned up. Now I lost it, hope it found a good home...

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I did have one significant oops... if you look, you can see that the pin at the back end of the handles isn't flush. It jammed when I was putting it in, and when I tried to get it out, broke off. I was doing that part in the hotel room after my work day while I was out of town last week. I'll eventually drill it out and fix it, but didn't want to have to wait to get more done on it.

It definitely has me wanting to try one from scratch.

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Many years ago a friend and I were walking down a side road off the Petersville road. We were there to recover a crashed bush plane and needed to coordinate with the helicopter that was going to pull it out of the trees and set it on the trailer. It was getting dark being mid winter it was also cold, well below zero.

 

One to the things we talking about is what we'd do if we got stranded. I'd just made the comment I should've brought something other than my pocket knife, Mike said something about I'd better get one before something happened. I kicked the snow in the road and kicked up a nice big folder one with about a 5" blade as I recall. The darned thing was even shaving sharp.

 

Mike gave me the LOOK and a second later told me I'd better find that big gold nugget before something happened. Unfortunately . . . <sigh>

 

That knife Lives in my tool box and in all the time I've had it the only thing it's needed is wiping off and occasional honing. I do so LOVE a good find.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

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third-ed, be interesting to see what model it is too :)

 

excellent work Ronin, I have a really cheap folder that I bought for 5$ way back when that I have been contemplating making a new frame for out of titanium, thank you for reminding me that aluminum exists, is much cheaper, and FAAAAAR easier to work with!  especially for a trainer project on a POS blade :)

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Reminds me, some where in the shop I've got an old hunting knife I dug up last year when digging at the farm. It should be laying out on my blacksmithing table in the shop. I'll have to see if it's still sitting there tomorrow and see what it needs for a new handle. Looks like someone had probably been dressing a deer out behind the barn and dropped it and lost it in the grass/mud as it was still in the sheath.

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