Here are my latest acquisitions I have got over the past month or so, all purchased at flea-markets for bargains too! Not the best pictures, the lighting in my dining room is terrible but my workbench where I normally take pictures is nasty due to me being in the process of building a forge.
I bought these first two the same day but different places.
One I have never heard of, a holub electricians knife I got for $6, its the worse of the bunch by far but makes a nice little addition to the collection
The next one I bought, and my 4th electricians knife, is a camilus tl-29 that I got for $5. Definetely not the prettiest thing but it is still solid! Great snap and very little blade play, Just need to clean it up and it would be perfectly usable.
This week has been the best one for sure though because I got these next two.
The other day I bought this shrade 8ot for $17. It looks a little rough in the pictures but is not too bad in person. There is for sure some use on it, and suffered from some poor sharpening but it has a bunch of blade left and GREAT walk and talk. I was very impressed at the snap of the blades and how smooth the opening and closing is. I probably wont carry it much but it will look good sitting in my display case after I put a good edge on it!
Today I get the beset deal of all I think, while at a gun shop I saw what I thought was a buck 110 for $30, not something I was super interested in but I took a look anyway. I'm glad I did because it ended up being a 112 that is like new with just some patina on the brass. I know it will clean up great with a little mag polish. I ended up getting it for $15 with the leather sheath, much better than the $45 for a new one. I was pretty happy about this because I lost the 112 I used to have and had been tossing around buying another one. This one is is even smoother and tighter than the brand new one I used to have. Can not wait to clean it up and put a new edge on it. (it has never even been sharpened as far as I can tell) It is definitely going to be a user!
I plan on showing these off some more in a separate thread once I get them cleaned up some, maybe show some before and after pics. I have not cleaned or worked on any of these since I bought them. Should keep me busy while I am waiting on my forge to dry out.
I think all of these will clean up pretty darn good!
I bought these first two the same day but different places.
One I have never heard of, a holub electricians knife I got for $6, its the worse of the bunch by far but makes a nice little addition to the collection
The next one I bought, and my 4th electricians knife, is a camilus tl-29 that I got for $5. Definetely not the prettiest thing but it is still solid! Great snap and very little blade play, Just need to clean it up and it would be perfectly usable.
This week has been the best one for sure though because I got these next two.
The other day I bought this shrade 8ot for $17. It looks a little rough in the pictures but is not too bad in person. There is for sure some use on it, and suffered from some poor sharpening but it has a bunch of blade left and GREAT walk and talk. I was very impressed at the snap of the blades and how smooth the opening and closing is. I probably wont carry it much but it will look good sitting in my display case after I put a good edge on it!
Today I get the beset deal of all I think, while at a gun shop I saw what I thought was a buck 110 for $30, not something I was super interested in but I took a look anyway. I'm glad I did because it ended up being a 112 that is like new with just some patina on the brass. I know it will clean up great with a little mag polish. I ended up getting it for $15 with the leather sheath, much better than the $45 for a new one. I was pretty happy about this because I lost the 112 I used to have and had been tossing around buying another one. This one is is even smoother and tighter than the brand new one I used to have. Can not wait to clean it up and put a new edge on it. (it has never even been sharpened as far as I can tell) It is definitely going to be a user!
I plan on showing these off some more in a separate thread once I get them cleaned up some, maybe show some before and after pics. I have not cleaned or worked on any of these since I bought them. Should keep me busy while I am waiting on my forge to dry out.
I think all of these will clean up pretty darn good!
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