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by button_man
Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:48 pm
Forum: Switchblade knives
Topic: Looking for an apartment!
Replies: 30
Views: 6667

Re: Looking for an apartment!

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WheelingWV wrote: Sat Sep 26, 2020 2:32 am
There are the guns, the wheat pennies, and the Southwestern pottery.

Sell the wheat cents and the pottery, and buy more knives.
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by button_man
Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:44 pm
Forum: Switchblade knives
Topic: New Chinese Swinguard Leverlocks
Replies: 11
Views: 1528

Re: New Chinese Swinguard Leverlocks

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Markco the Mad otter wrote: Sun Jan 15, 2023 3:10 pm Oh and there was an old manual Italian Piclock.

Hey, how about a few photos of that picklock.....???
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by button_man
Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:46 pm
Forum: Blade pictures
Topic: 10 in. Renzo Pascotto
Replies: 13
Views: 8210

Re: 10 in. Renzo Pascotto

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Interesting to compare the differences between your recent Pascotto and my 2017 Pascotto !
-- different style lock tab; no rear bolster; steel vs brass; different bayo cut ........


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by button_man
Wed Jan 04, 2023 2:35 pm
Forum: Switchblade knives
Topic: 15"/38cm Rosco Pick Lock Find
Replies: 32
Views: 3670

Re: 15"/38cm Rosco Pick Lock Find

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gravknife wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 8:56 pm I have never seen the larger 15" size older knives.
Isn't the switchblade in 'Freaks' (1932) a 15" knife ?
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by button_man
Mon Jan 02, 2023 3:28 pm
Forum: Switchblade knives
Topic: 15"/38cm Rosco Pick Lock Find
Replies: 32
Views: 3670

Re: 15"/38cm Rosco Pick Lock Find

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Highspeedsteel wrote: Sun Jan 01, 2023 9:40 pm....... it's pretty cool to find something ....unknown.......

I thought so too when it happened to me !
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You have a STUNNING discovery !!! ---- Museum quality !!
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by button_man
Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:04 pm
Forum: Switchblade knives
Topic: German market stiletto restoration
Replies: 7
Views: 1132

Re: German market stiletto restoration

. I'm still not clear on what exactly causes blade peek - - - on all of my knives that have this problem, there does not appear to be any wear to the sear holes -- and wear to this area is the only reason I can think of that might cause this condition. Could the retaining pin wear away enough to cau...
by button_man
Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:39 pm
Forum: Switchblade knives
Topic: Rare picklock vintage de 28 cm avec croix maltaise (je l'ai vu sur la couverture de M. Paolo ALDIGHI
Replies: 25
Views: 3652

Re: Rare picklock vintage de 28 cm avec croix maltaise (je l'ai vu sur la couverture de M. Paolo ALDIGHI

. Frenchi94 ~ You have some really terrific stuff there! --and this anchor-stamp Beltrame is certainly a once-in-a-lifetime discovery! Could you possibly share the contact info at the museum in Maniago? I also have what seems to be an extremely rare knife -- nobody here has ever seen another one -- ...
by button_man
Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:52 pm
Forum: Switchblade knives
Topic: Schrade 1916
Replies: 3
Views: 733

Re: Schrade 1916

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gravknife & Millern » Thanks !

Mark Erickson -- "Early American Switchblades" -- p. 128 (top photo) >>> jigged bone scales
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by button_man
Sun Nov 06, 2022 2:18 pm
Forum: Switchblade knives
Topic: Schrade 1916
Replies: 3
Views: 733

Schrade 1916

. computer not registering keystrokes -- can not type at all -- copy/paste letters and words with mouse -- very slow ---- Schrade from the flea on Saturday .... a good buy at 250 bucks When open, a bit of blade movement; but overall excellent condition ---- blade opens & locks fine. The blade has sc...
by button_man
Sat Oct 22, 2022 12:11 pm
Forum: Switchblade knives
Topic: White nato/Super auto OTF knife
Replies: 10
Views: 1205

Re: White nato/Super auto OTF knife

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"botled" -- ?????

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by button_man
Mon Oct 17, 2022 7:18 pm
Forum: Switchblade knives
Topic: Vintage Black Widows
Replies: 17
Views: 2788

Re: Vintage Black Widows

. For many of us, the mental image of the quintessential switchblade is the Italian stiletto with black scales. One of my very first switchblades was a skinny Armando Beltrame with black plastic scales. To me, this knife is everything that a switchblade should be. I can't understand why almost no sw...
by button_man
Mon Oct 17, 2022 3:54 pm
Forum: Switchblade knives
Topic: Schrade Walden Paratrooper Switchblade
Replies: 13
Views: 1860

Re: Schrade Walden Paratrooper Switchblade

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I picked up the Camillus version last year at the flea for $50. Like yours, it has both S2S and U&D blade play when open.
So have all the other ones that I've ever seen. Has anyone ever seen a TIGHT blade on one of these....? Just wondering....
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by button_man
Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:33 pm
Forum: Blade pictures
Topic: Antique TOMAHAWKS
Replies: 12
Views: 1988

Re: Antique TOMAHAWKS

. Well, the decision is finally in...... and Mr. Miller does not think that these pieces qualify as bona-fide Spike Tomahawks. He feels that the wood-handled piece is circa 1899 and was probably a general-purpose tool around a farm, mill, etc. The iron piece seems more tricky.... although Mr. Miller...
by button_man
Tue Oct 04, 2022 7:09 am
Forum: Blade pictures
Topic: gravity Knife.
Replies: 23
Views: 16879

Re: gravity Knife.

. The Checkered Demon dates back to the late 1960s, when the art of S. Clay Wilson appeared in any number of "underground" comics (also known in the trade as "comix") along with such luminaries as Robert Crumb, Bill Griffith, Gilbert Shelton, Vaughn Bodē, Denis Kitchen, Trina Robbins, Kim Deitch, an...
by button_man
Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:45 pm
Forum: Blade pictures
Topic: Antique TOMAHAWKS
Replies: 12
Views: 1988

Re: Antique TOMAHAWKS

. Billyfish ~ Our people could have arrived on the same boat.... mine got here in 1638. Unfortunately, for generations they frittered away their time being poor farmers instead of the far more worthwhile endeavor of piling up valuable real estate for me to inherit. Smearing rancid tallow on everythi...