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"I figured as much. And I don't have much of a problem with any of that... There's even a couple of guys online who do a very nice job of "saving" old, U.S. made knives by expertly re handling them--cleaning them up a…"
Featureddead_left_knife_guy replied to d. freeman's discussion Need a little help from the experts. in the group Ka-Bar Fan Club
"That looks like a fun little piece to carry. I'm not a collector of more traditional patterns, for the most part anyway, but I'd say it's actually pretty common for repaired / rehandled knives to be sold as if in the original…"
"My first thought, exactly.
If it were a more valuable knife, I might get prickly about being sold a repaired piece. But I really bought this to carry--so I'm not stressed about it.
How prevalent is the repair and…"
"Honestly, I assume we are talking about the shield, it could be as simple as it fell off and someone re-glued it. This is an extremely common occurrence with shields and super glue is a wonderful fix"
"I'm not familiar with this particular knife, but from all I can see it's just an error piece."
"Here's a "new to me," 1173, with an unusual, upside down badge, that appears to be original."
"Testing this post... Still getting used to your interface."
Need a little help from the experts.
I recently picked up a very nice Ka-Bar 1173, swing guard.While I was going over it, I noticed that the badge was upside down, compared with other 1173s I've seen.I thought this was odd, so I got online and did some image searches.All of the 1173s I found have the badge positioned so that it's readable, or "right-side-up," when the knife is open, and on it's spine.Mine is the opposite. Upside down.> Here's pics of my knife, you can see here: You can see that if you laid the knife down…See More
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- 41 to 45 years
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- At 23:31 on February 20, 2021,
J.J. Smith III said…
- At 17:57 on February 16, 2021,
Jan Carter said…
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