Garage Sale Finds
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The CoPilot
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Garage Sale Finds
Ever found any Spydies at a garage sale or flea market? If you, let's hear about some of your best discoveries!
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Looking for: C04 Executive plain edge, C09 CoPilot plain edge with brass liners and a G-2 marked blade
C09 CoPilots My Specialty
Integrity is Being Good Even if No One is WatchingTM
Looking for: C04 Executive plain edge, C09 CoPilot plain edge with brass liners and a G-2 marked blade
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Fred Sanford
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Saw a fixed blade Schrade once, years ago. Never seen a folder at a garage sale. Folders show up at local flea markets quite a bit, usually very low quality stuff. I have seen a few upscale folders at pawn shops. That's where I'd hunt if I had the time anymore.
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I must be an exception to the rule.
Over the last 3-4 years I have done quite well at flea markets and garage sales. Most of the spydies were the older FRN clip versions but an occasional rare find would come along. A few examples would be;
Evolution Edition
Black blade ATS34 Military
PE Tuffram Civilian
Please don't ask me how little I paid, I hate to see grown men cry :)
dave
Over the last 3-4 years I have done quite well at flea markets and garage sales. Most of the spydies were the older FRN clip versions but an occasional rare find would come along. A few examples would be;
Evolution Edition
Black blade ATS34 Military
PE Tuffram Civilian
Please don't ask me how little I paid, I hate to see grown men cry :)
dave
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tonyfromky
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The best yard sale deal that I ever heard of was this one :cool:
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The CoPilot
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Ok, gun shows are fair game too, then. What kind of bargains have shown up at gun shows?Slatts wrote:Gun shows yes, but never at garage sales or flea markets.
><> The most important blood trail leads to the Cross <><
C09 CoPilots My Specialty
Integrity is Being Good Even if No One is WatchingTM
Looking for: C04 Executive plain edge, C09 CoPilot plain edge with brass liners and a G-2 marked blade
C09 CoPilots My Specialty
Integrity is Being Good Even if No One is WatchingTM
Looking for: C04 Executive plain edge, C09 CoPilot plain edge with brass liners and a G-2 marked blade
When I was younger my Dad bought me some unknown Spyderco. My Mom didn't like the idea of me having a knife (sheeple Mom, divorced parents). She took the knife from me and I never saw it again.
Fast forward to a couple of years ago I asked her whatever happened to that knife and a few other knives that she confinscated from my childhood. She replied that she sold them in one of her many garage sales that she had over the years. When I asked how much money she got from the sale she said that she didn't rememmber but, it was probably between $.50 and $1.00.
The moral of the story is however rare, it is possible to find a quality knife at a garage sale. Or in my case lose a quality knife
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Fast forward to a couple of years ago I asked her whatever happened to that knife and a few other knives that she confinscated from my childhood. She replied that she sold them in one of her many garage sales that she had over the years. When I asked how much money she got from the sale she said that she didn't rememmber but, it was probably between $.50 and $1.00.
The moral of the story is however rare, it is possible to find a quality knife at a garage sale. Or in my case lose a quality knife
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Ah carumba! Did you see what looks like a Dino Bone Executive at the lower edge of the pictures?PSU wrote:The yard sale deal that I ever heard of was this one :cool:
><> The most important blood trail leads to the Cross <><
C09 CoPilots My Specialty
Integrity is Being Good Even if No One is WatchingTM
Looking for: C04 Executive plain edge, C09 CoPilot plain edge with brass liners and a G-2 marked blade
C09 CoPilots My Specialty
Integrity is Being Good Even if No One is WatchingTM
Looking for: C04 Executive plain edge, C09 CoPilot plain edge with brass liners and a G-2 marked blade
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Some I've bought at shows.Ok, gun shows are fair game too, then. What kind of bargains have shown up at gun shows?
Millie 440V SE
440V natives SE X2 $30 ea
worker comm. in box, like new $50
Blue Lum Chinese LNIB 125
catcherman $30
C34, C37, C36, all $30
Rookie & J.D Smith SE $35 ea.
Spydercard $25
C22PBK Formerly C37PBK Walker $30 / Jess Horn with Aus 8 steel ( forgot # $35)
etc, etc. Can't count the turn downs
Hit or miss. You need to know which dealers to look at too. There are some I've known for 15 years. Joe
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This purchase wasn't at a sale, but it kinda fits into the idea of cheap
Spydies.
I saw a Spyderco in the pocket of a co-worker and asked what kind it was. He pulled it out and it was an SE Delica 3 with VG-10 steel. It was pretty filthy and hadn't been sharpened in a long while. He let me see it and I said it was a heck of a knife. He said "I tell you what, it is yours for 10 bucks." I almost sprained my thumb getting to my wallet!
One trip to the kitchen sink to scrub off the gunk and a trip to Golden to get resharpened and it was like a brand new knife. So of course I had to do a few cutting tests in front of the guy I bought it from. His look was worth every penny
Spydies.
I saw a Spyderco in the pocket of a co-worker and asked what kind it was. He pulled it out and it was an SE Delica 3 with VG-10 steel. It was pretty filthy and hadn't been sharpened in a long while. He let me see it and I said it was a heck of a knife. He said "I tell you what, it is yours for 10 bucks." I almost sprained my thumb getting to my wallet!
One trip to the kitchen sink to scrub off the gunk and a trip to Golden to get resharpened and it was like a brand new knife. So of course I had to do a few cutting tests in front of the guy I bought it from. His look was worth every penny