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Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!

us Offline King_Gorilla

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Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
on: September 21, 2023, 05:43:35 AM
A few days ago I was in a pawn shop with a friend who was looking for power tools.  I've had some decent luck at this particular shop in the past.  I was looking at some old guns when a bow on the wall caught my attention.  Nothing special, a cheap 20 lb. recurve bow for my nephew.  (getting that Christmas shopping done extra early  :D )  THEN, I notice over by the archery stuff is a very small, not impressive display of pocket knives and SAKs.  With a simple glance I can see that it is mostly over priced Victorinox and cheap knock-off stuff.  But off to one side is what appeared to be a Leatherman PST.  Thankfully I did a quick double-take because at the last moment my eye caught the tell-tale sight of an off-gold colored bottle opener at the end of one of the handles. 
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There was no mistaking it.  This pawn shop had a used Leatherman Flair!

They wanted $30 for it.  I pretended to be upset by the filthy state of the tool and the lack of box or sheath.  The guy let me buy it for $25!

It was pretty dirty so I washed it and scrubbed it clean when I got home. 
I have wanted one of these for about 11 years now.  I LOVE the idea of MTs with forks. 





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us Offline King_Gorilla

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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #1 on: September 21, 2023, 05:46:28 AM
clean "after" pictures:

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au Offline Echotech

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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #2 on: September 21, 2023, 05:57:00 AM
Great score and clean up job KG  :like:


us Offline Barry Rowland

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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #3 on: September 21, 2023, 07:24:18 AM
 :iagree: :like:
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us Offline NutSAK

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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #4 on: September 21, 2023, 11:22:50 AM
Nice find!
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us Offline Poncho65

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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #5 on: September 21, 2023, 02:37:28 PM
That is great! Very great deal and nice job on the clean up :salute: :like: :like:


us Offline Aloha

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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #6 on: September 21, 2023, 02:55:56 PM
 :woohoo: Well done.   It came out really nice.   :tu:
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us Offline pa_strunk

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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #7 on: September 21, 2023, 03:34:55 PM
Nice catch  :tu:
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us Offline BillBarrels

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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #8 on: September 21, 2023, 03:49:20 PM
Awesome find and great job cleaning it up! Always nice to see classics being treated well and living on.


us Offline SteveC

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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #9 on: September 22, 2023, 05:27:14 AM
 :iagree: :tu:


au Offline ReamerPunch

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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #10 on: September 23, 2023, 02:16:14 AM
What a find! And great job cleaning it. There's still plenty of life in that old chap. :D

Hey, Leatherman Tool Group, where's the Limited Edition Flair? :think: :pok:


us Offline Craig_S

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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #11 on: September 25, 2023, 08:46:52 PM
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Nice find. I can honestly say I've never seen one in person, and actually didn't know they existed until I started coming here.

Craig
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ie Offline McStitchy

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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #12 on: September 26, 2023, 08:36:18 PM
Nice haul King G.  :like:

It is a funky thing the Flair. I like it   :D


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Re: Exciting Pawn Shop Find...!
Reply #13 on: September 27, 2023, 06:33:55 AM
Congratulations on a great score! :tu:
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