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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Spyderco-Police ... 1c365445ea
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More of a case of improper sharpening :/
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razorsharp wrote:More of a case of improper sharpening :/
I agree with the improper sharpening.
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No steel mark, beveled handles would put it around 1991. It may have started out life as a serrated model, and it certainly looks like it was routinely sharpened on a bench grinder. I think his opening bid is a tad optimistic.
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I bet that knife has seen the electric can opener 100s of times over the years.
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Wow! this knife is pretty well spent for what they are asking for it.
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That knife badly needs dentures...
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I will get a big laugh if someone actually buys it lol.
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Blerv wrote:That knife badly needs dentures...
ha ha ha :p

That thing certainly has seen the good years and is on it's way to a happy retirement.
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Used? Nah, she's almost mint-in-box! :p
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Blerv wrote:That knife badly needs dentures...
Ya know, as funny as that sounds, I wonder if someday it will ever be cost effective to do a brazed two piece blade like Kershaw has done on a knife like this? I guess you would REALLY want to save the rest of the knife, so today it may not be cost effective but someday on a different knife of different steel, maybe if the rest of the knife were rare or made of something special, you could do something crazy like that. Then again if you had that kind of skill you could probably just make another blade from scratch.
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SpyderNut wrote:Used? Nah, she's almost mint-in-box! :p
That's what I was thinking! It's obviously one of the super rare Recurve Police released in Septober 1991! Super-rare and a steal at that price :p
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SpyderNut wrote:Used? Nah, she's almost mint-in-box! :p
I think fubar would be a more accurate description lol
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Hey...that looks like that one I used to dig through the center of the Earth with ;)
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Evil D wrote:Ya know, as funny as that sounds, I wonder if someday it will ever be cost effective to do a brazed two piece blade like Kershaw has done on a knife like this? I guess you would REALLY want to save the rest of the knife, so today it may not be cost effective but someday on a different knife of different steel, maybe if the rest of the knife were rare or made of something special, you could do something crazy like that. Then again if you had that kind of skill you could probably just make another blade from scratch.
Hmm interesting. I know you can buy replacement Sebenza blades for like $125. It would be interesting if the blade could be affixed similar to two-piece forged wheels with screws tho. Is that what Kershaw does? I gotta go look now :)


xceptnl wrote:ha ha ha :p

That thing certainly has seen the good years and is on it's way to a happy retirement.
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holy cow what happened to that thing, i guess it was well used/loved
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Just like they used to forge weld the bit of an axe to the rest of the head, the good steel was just a couple of inches in width. Seems like you could affix a new edge in there, use whatever super steel you would like, how hard would that be?


Evil D wrote:Ya know, as funny as that sounds, I wonder if someday it will ever be cost effective to do a brazed two piece blade like Kershaw has done on a knife like this? I guess you would REALLY want to save the rest of the knife, so today it may not be cost effective but someday on a different knife of different steel, maybe if the rest of the knife were rare or made of something special, you could do something crazy like that. Then again if you had that kind of skill you could probably just make another blade from scratch.
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razorsharp wrote:More of a case of improper sharpening :/
What do you know about sharpening?






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yablanowitz wrote:No steel mark, beveled handles would put it around 1991. It may have started out life as a serrated model, and it certainly looks like it was routinely sharpened on a bench grinder. I think his opening bid is a tad optimistic.
Exactly my thoughts. It looks like they sharpened the serrations inexpertly - and then ground them off once they got dulled. FUBAR indeed.

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