Interesting find today

[Moonpie]

Did a little pawn shop trolling today.
While in a shop snooping around looking in the knife case I saw, buried in a pile of El-Crappo knives, a lone stag handle that appeared to be real. One with that wonderful patina only legit use old stag gets. I asked to see the knife.
Looking it over, the knife seemed very well made. Scratched up pretty good I could make out a makers name. Ferguson. Date of 1990.
Marked $40 I’m thinking I found a hidden jewel.
I made an offer of $30 out the door. They bit.
Took the poor thing home. Spent about 20 minutes with some 1500 grit emery and a little Flitz polishing compound and cleaned her up.
She will not win any beauty contests but a solid knife me thinks.
The poor sheath was dried out as toast. Slathered it down with some Pecard’s leather dressing. Will let it soak overnight. Will be usable I think.
Did a bit of InTreWebz searching to find a custom bladesmith named Lee Ferguson over in Alabama? The name stamped on my blade sure looks like the one he uses. So maybe I scored something neat.

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[peter.brandon.733]

Great find and most definitely more than worth the money! Will make a great hunting knife.


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[Brains]

Nice little knife, definitely looks like it was a primary tool for someone for quite some time.

 

[scattergun6]

Very nice - love the stag. And a good job of cleaning her up....

 

[Tnhawk]

Nice find! Most of my trips to pawn shops have done nothing but kill time.

 

[msharley]

Great score!

 

[Texasjack]

An old one - almost nobody uses brass anymore because so many of the cheapo Pakistani knives that come into the country use brass.

 

[jrbfishn]

Looks like it would make a fine skinning knife.

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[prisondoc]

You did a great job cleaning it up. Nice score.

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[EZ-E]

Nice score

 

[TipBledsoe]

Very well done!

 

[robertc1024]

Garbage. I'll give you $5 and dispose of it for you.

 

[seeker_two]

Garbage. I'll give you $5 and dispose of it for you.

Don't let him suckered you with such an insulting bid like that!.......

....I'll give you $7 for it.

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[dbgun]

Very nice - love the stag. And a good job of cleaning her up....

+1....Congratulations, nice knife.

 

[Moonpie]

Thanks guys.

Been sitting here trying to put a decent edge on the thing. The previous owner had it in awful condition.
Edge profiles all jacked up. Chips in the edge. etc.
Been working it for hours with the Lansky trying to re-profile the edge. Getting there but it is slow going by hand on stones. Steel seems very hard.
Got all the rust spots cleaned off.
Pretty cool knife I guess. Not really the type of blade I have a lot of use for but I couldn't let it pass. LOL.
I'm a sucker for old knives too.

 

[Moonpie]

Garbage. I'll give you $5 and dispose of it for you.

You hush. I know you, ya pirate.

 

[SQLGeek]

Garbage. I'll give you $5 and dispose of it for you.

You should charge him a disposal fee for this junk.

 

[deemus]

Nice find! Purty.

 

[Geezer]

There's no mistaking well used stag. You got a very nice knife and did a killer job on the clean up.