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11-11-2012, 09:16 PM #11Learning something all the time...
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C sharp...
Originally Posted by Wullie
I have to wonder what thread pitch was being used in 1777.......
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11-11-2012, 10:16 PM #12Learning something all the time...
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Seeing at how this thing is getting bids, I am thinking of cutting down some old rusty kitchen knives and bolting them in between some pallet lumber scraps and seeing how they do at auction...
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11-11-2012, 11:57 PM #13There is no charge for Awesomeness
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Make sure to scratch ... erm I mean etch... an old year into the scales if you do that. And if you are feeling particularly jaunty you could also scratch in a name of a town from the dirty town name list. My favourite: Cockintake, UK.
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11-12-2012, 12:09 AM #14Natty Boh
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It seems there's no shortage of people willing to buy a "pig in a poke" .
Greetings , from Dundalk , Maryland . The place where normal people , fear to go .
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11-12-2012, 12:27 AM #15Learning something all the time...
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I'm thinking I might crudely scratch (so as to add to the authentic "feel") a ripe year into the scale like:
1984
....wait for it...
B.C.
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11-12-2012, 02:13 AM #16Orange County N.Y.
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bummer i never saw this before it end.
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11-12-2012, 12:49 PM #17Learning something all the time...
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No problem, find a neighbor that does not care for his tools and ask him to borrow a shovel... Originally Posted by Suile
Seriously though. It looked like a nice wedge square point from 10 feet away, but up close it was a very rusted SR-like object that had the right shape (2 dimensional for side), and had some crude screws holding it together with "1777" and "Puntang W. VA." scratched into the rough slab that appeared to have been made from another piece of scrap (it had at least one extraneous hole in it...possibly from a nail?
The edge looked typical for the sort of sharpening job you might do as an initial effort on a truly pitted out knife blade you perhaps found in the woods (in efforts to assess viability of the blade)
I am trying to be accurate here and not snarky.
Interestingly enough there were actually quite a few bidders on this piece. Hopefully the winner has plans to put it on a wall in a theme restaurant of something.Last edited by unit; 11-12-2012 at 12:57 PM.
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11-12-2012, 01:50 PM #18Orange County N.Y.
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Yea the folks who put stuff on the walls just to have people look at them shouldn't buy the nice stuff. Originally Posted by unit
Cause i noticed the barber shop i went to the other day never had vintage shaving stuff on display a year ago.
Now they got alot of vintage shaving stuff on display. All really nice stuff but afforable but nothing insane on the values.
It's like why do people buy nice razors and stropping gigdets for the de razors blades to have some just look at them.
I use the stuff i buy that might be worthless. If they going after that cool stuff they should at least use it to give folks nice shave and not use the razors with the thorw away blades.
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11-12-2012, 09:00 PM #19Senior Member
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Those were put in just to let the buyer know he's been screwed. It went for $47 by the way. Originally Posted by Wullie
I have to wonder what thread pitch was being used in 1777.......
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11-18-2012, 12:53 AM #20Senior Member
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L@@K !!!!! Originally Posted by unit
I found the matching strop and brush that goes with it. Apparently it was a set at one time. Same date markings ! The strop has what looks like a prison tat on it that says USDA and the horse hair in the brush doesn't smell that bad although I don't think it was originally green.
Such a deal I have for you ..... Interested ?Geezer likes this.Good judgment comes from experience, and experience....well that comes from poor judgment.
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