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Wenger Wednesday!

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Re: Wenger Wednesday!
Reply #3540 on: May 09, 2024, 09:02:12 AM
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Reply #3541 on: May 09, 2024, 03:09:26 PM
  I'm a day late with Wengers.  Again.  Raining hard with bouts of heavy thunder.  No wind on this side of the mountains.  Yet.  Heating up some chicken tenders.  Never know when the power will go off.  I can eat them cold later if I have to.
    I suppose everyone has seen how the BSA has renamed itself as the SA.  The initials are a little ominous.  Brown uniforms?  Marching?  SA?  I don't know why any girl would want to join the SA.  No cookies.
 Best wishes.  G
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Re: Wenger Wednesday!
Reply #3542 on: May 09, 2024, 04:28:26 PM
And no coffee  :rofl:
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Reply #3543 on: May 09, 2024, 04:43:30 PM
Whoa, whoa, whoa!  Whadda ya mean no cookies and coffee?!  That's a negative Ghost Rider!
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Reply #3544 on: May 09, 2024, 10:21:28 PM
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Reply #3545 on: May 16, 2024, 06:52:20 AM
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Re: Wenger Wednesday!
Reply #3546 on: May 16, 2024, 11:38:31 AM


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Re: Wenger Wednesday!
Reply #3547 on: May 16, 2024, 04:55:09 PM
Stunning!


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Reply #3548 on: May 17, 2024, 01:38:25 AM
 :iagree: And I need to make more contributions to this thread.
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Reply #3549 on: May 17, 2024, 01:47:00 AM
   Friend jnoxyd always has some spectacular photos.  I never took a photo that good.  Nice Wenger too.
    Did you ever get that Wenger display case that you showed back in the summer sometime, Dan?  The Delemont challenge will give me a chance to carry one and scuff it up some.  Might as well.  Best wishes.  G
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Reply #3550 on: May 17, 2024, 02:13:55 AM
I never so much as asked the seller about it. I can only hope it went to an appreciative owner.
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Reply #3551 on: May 22, 2024, 01:50:48 AM
   Wenger Wednesday.  A little early.  I never had such a hard time resizing a photo.  Don't know where the glitch was.  The fragrant flower is Japanese Honeysuckle.  An invasive vine, but much beloved by the bees, etc.  When I was a child, we used to nip off the back of a blossom that we  picked and sip the nectar.  Very sweet but oh so little of it.  Best wishes.  Gary
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Reply #3552 on: May 22, 2024, 03:31:20 PM
Looks like a two-layer. And the cross looks to be in perfect condition, with the sort of metallic background. A lot to :like: there!
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Reply #3553 on: May 22, 2024, 03:40:40 PM
   Do you mean the Highlander with the flowers?  I took it out of the factory packaging for the photo.  It has never been carried.  I bought it new years ago.   
   I might have to carry that one for the Delemont.  Unless I run across a beater somewhere.  Best wishes.  G
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Re: Wenger Wednesday!
Reply #3554 on: May 22, 2024, 04:04:01 PM
   Do you mean the Highlander with the flowers?
Yes.

I wonder when the cool inlay was discontinued. It's a lot more apparent when the scales aren't red. And go figure that the only Wenger in my collection that has non-red plastic scales also has a printed cross...
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Reply #3555 on: May 22, 2024, 04:26:44 PM
   There was a line of Wengers rather like the Victorinox Eco line.  The printed crosses and the ones that wore off quickly to leave a blank white square are part of the reason for my love/hate Wenger relationship.  I never liked how the liners on some of them was covered by scales that overlapped them either.  I had a 65mm once that resisted sharpening.  Not typical Wenger. 
    Most of these things are cosmetic.  A knife with a worn off Vic or Wenger emblem would be perfectly satisfactory for me as a carry knife.  Best wishes.  G
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Re: Wenger Wednesday!
Reply #3556 on: May 22, 2024, 04:36:07 PM
My combo-edge Highlander suffers from a worn-off cross and a chipped scale. Both are evident in the photo.

 
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Since I dug it out, I'm gonna give it a bath. :)
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Reply #3557 on: May 22, 2024, 04:52:38 PM
   It is unfortunate that Ibach didn't decide to have the Wenger factory run off 10 thousand sets of replacement Wenger scales.  They could have sold them at a substantial profit for years.  Lots of Wengers out there with cracks and chips.  Their trading value is reduced to almost nothing because of it.  Best wishes.  G
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Reply #3558 on: May 22, 2024, 06:25:46 PM
 :iagree: completely Gary.  This Pocket Tool Chest could use a fresh set.

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Reply #3559 on: May 22, 2024, 07:22:33 PM
   That's a good one, Barry.  At the same time, they should have kept a couple of big boxes full of tweezers and toothpicks for the Wengers.  Those things are difficult to obtain and make otherwise good SAKs seem a little sad without them.  Best wishes.  G
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Reply #3560 on: May 23, 2024, 01:04:44 PM
One of my saved eBay sellers recently listed a pretty badly beaten Backpacker II. Most of the value I saw in it was the toothpick that somehow managed to avoid getting lost or broken. I was going to bid on it, but someone hit "buy it now." Guess they were a lot more desperate for a spare /replacement toothpick than I am. :ahhh  :ahhh :ahhh
Aftermarket replacement Wenger toothpicks are out there. I don't know if they're molded or 3-D printed, and I'm just as clueless about their quality. If nothing else, they'd fill the slot.
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