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King_Gorilla
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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
) 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.
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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September 21, 2023, 05:46:28 AM
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September 21, 2023, 05:57:00 AM
Great score and clean up job KG
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September 21, 2023, 11:22:50 AM
Nice find!
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September 21, 2023, 02:37:28 PM
That is great! Very great deal and nice job on the clean up
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September 21, 2023, 02:55:56 PM
Well done. It came out really nice.
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September 21, 2023, 03:34:55 PM
Nice catch
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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.
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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.
Hey, Leatherman Tool Group, where's the Limited Edition Flair?
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September 25, 2023, 08:46:52 PM
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.
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September 26, 2023, 08:36:18 PM
Nice haul King G.
It is a funky thing the Flair. I like it
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September 27, 2023, 06:33:55 AM
Congratulations on a great score!
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