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Originally Posted by 10Pups

New plan, make some money, buy some land that is within 2 days ride by horse to internet or phone.

How would you cope without SRP!

Originally Posted by pofo

My first SR, a OPINEL Garant hollow ground, 6/8th, nose has a spanish point. French made. It is being shipped La Poste and should arrive this coming Friday. The seller stated, "shave ready", honed and stropped. Fingers crossed.

These are for my 1990 Corrado Tony.
I have some KY coil overs on her currently, but do not like the ride on curves or washboards.
The sports will lower me 1.5" in the front and 1.3" on the rear over stock, which will still be ok ...

No excuses for driving into the trailer

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Originally Posted by engine46

I acquired an old Wade & Butcher blade quite some time ago & it was one of the ones that didn't even say Sheffield on it, it was that old. I was so happy to get that blade but upon further inspection, I noticed the tang was bent so I put it on the anvil part of my vise & gave it a very light "love" tap to straighten it out like I did on another blade another time. This time I wasn't so lucky & the blade broke! I was so disappointed since it was a very old Wade & Butcher

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Originally Posted by engine46

Here is how I cleaned up my Otto Deutsch Hans I recently got off eBay. The first pic is what it looked like when I first got it. As you can see the scales looked black & were filthy.

I took it to my kitchen sink where I did the work to it. I did it here so when the blade got warm, I just turned the faucet on & cooled the blade, wiped it off with a dry rag & started polishing again. You can also do this with a glass of water nearby. I usually

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