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Bargain find!

us Offline Lynn LeFey

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Bargain find!
on: November 23, 2017, 06:08:17 AM
I went digging through the 'garbage knife bucket' at my local pawn shop today, looking for cheap knives for emergency kits. The objective was $1 knives. Something for little Altoids tin pocket kits.

I found 3 cheapo chinese lockblades, and something that looked like a 58mm Victorinox that was nearly frozen up with crud. I took the chance and bought it.

After a bath, a WD40 hosedown, and an oiling, it got a nice snap back in the tools.

So, it just had the blade and nail file. No scissors, no lanyard ring, and no toothpick/tweezers slots in the scales. The blade was stamped...

VICTORINOX
SWITZERLAND
STAINLESS
ROSTFREI

So... a legit Victorinox. I'd just never seen a cellidor scaled 58mm with no T&T.
After looking through the SAK WIKI, it looks like what I found was a Princess.
This one is stamped with the 'Santa Fe' railroad logo in silver on blue scales.

And was worth every cent of the $1 I paid. Score!

And let me say, with the somewhat thinner scales and only 1 layer, this knife is REALLY slim. Any slimmer and I don't think it'd grip well.



nl Offline Ron Who

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Re: Bargain find!
Reply #1 on: November 23, 2017, 06:14:10 AM
Nice find!


us Offline Aloha

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Re: Bargain find!
Reply #2 on: November 23, 2017, 06:37:09 AM
Nice find.   :tu:
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Re: Bargain find!
Reply #3 on: November 23, 2017, 10:58:10 AM
 :drool: :like:
Hooked, like everyone else. ;)

All hail the hook!


us Offline VICMAN

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Re: Bargain find!
Reply #4 on: November 23, 2017, 02:42:12 PM
Great find Lynn!  :like: :tu: :tu:


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Re: Bargain find!
Reply #5 on: November 23, 2017, 04:29:12 PM
Having been into trains as long as I can remember, that's definitely a cool piece.  I've seen SAKs for a few railroads, but not Santa Fe.


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Re: Bargain find!
Reply #6 on: November 23, 2017, 04:41:36 PM
It seems PhotoBucket smurfed up again. I could see the photo this morning, but no longer.


00 Offline Mechanickal

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Re: Bargain find!
Reply #7 on: November 23, 2017, 04:42:24 PM
It seems PhotoBucket smurfed up again. I could see the photo this morning, but no longer.
I can still see it.


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Re: Bargain find!
Reply #8 on: November 23, 2017, 04:47:29 PM
That´s odd. I installed the fix months ago, and it seemed to work fine.


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Re: Bargain find!
Reply #9 on: November 23, 2017, 05:00:40 PM
No fix... on Tapatalk...


 

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