ArfinGreebly
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So, today I dropped by a feed store I've been meaning to visit since I moved here to North Idaho.
I walked in, the fella asked if he could help me, I told him I was just browsing, as I hadn't visited the store since I moved to town.
I noticed he had a bin of knives by the register. Just generic "cheap Chinese" folders. I sighed. "Don't suppose you have any Case knives?"
"Yeah, I think we do . . . had them in stock for . . . like . . . five years or so . . . here we go."
Behind the register stand, out of view to all but those actually looking for them, were three Case knives.
Two of them in gift tins (a John Deere, Green Bone Stockman in stainless, and a Coke Bottle shaped knife -- in a Coca Cola gift tin -- with a blade set that looks like a Peanut, also in stainless), and one yellow-handled Sod Buster Jr in CV, still in the original (if somewhat beat-up) box.
On opening the sodbuster, we found this:
On examination of the piece, it seemed to me that this could be salvaged. I asked him if he'd consider knocking five bucks off the $20 store sticker.
So, $15 later, I made my way home with this.
It has, as you can see, rust on the left side of the blade and rust along both sides of the actual sharpened edge. It's not really awful (other than the Capital Crime of letting a Case XX knife rust), and I'm sure the rust can all be removed and the edge made somewhere between wonderful and perfect.
However, since I've not done a red rust removal project on this kind of blade before, I thought I'd run this past you guys and see what suggestions are forthcoming.
I'm all ears.
I walked in, the fella asked if he could help me, I told him I was just browsing, as I hadn't visited the store since I moved to town.
I noticed he had a bin of knives by the register. Just generic "cheap Chinese" folders. I sighed. "Don't suppose you have any Case knives?"
"Yeah, I think we do . . . had them in stock for . . . like . . . five years or so . . . here we go."
Behind the register stand, out of view to all but those actually looking for them, were three Case knives.
Two of them in gift tins (a John Deere, Green Bone Stockman in stainless, and a Coke Bottle shaped knife -- in a Coca Cola gift tin -- with a blade set that looks like a Peanut, also in stainless), and one yellow-handled Sod Buster Jr in CV, still in the original (if somewhat beat-up) box.
On opening the sodbuster, we found this:
On examination of the piece, it seemed to me that this could be salvaged. I asked him if he'd consider knocking five bucks off the $20 store sticker.
So, $15 later, I made my way home with this.
It has, as you can see, rust on the left side of the blade and rust along both sides of the actual sharpened edge. It's not really awful (other than the Capital Crime of letting a Case XX knife rust), and I'm sure the rust can all be removed and the edge made somewhere between wonderful and perfect.
However, since I've not done a red rust removal project on this kind of blade before, I thought I'd run this past you guys and see what suggestions are forthcoming.
I'm all ears.