old knife - discard?

[jtbutcher]

I've had this knife for well over a decade and never got round to doing anything with it. I think I aquired it when I was 13 or 14 from a show at the NAC.

Its blunt enough that it would bludgen a piece of wood before it cut it, I think it was actually bought blunt and never sharpened.

Its a stainless steel blade and unfortuantely a lock knife. Would I be better of chucking it back in my box of junk and aquiring a new one rather than trying to make it useful?

 

[RonW]

Why throw something away if you can still use it?
Sharpen it, make a sheath for it and take it out with you.
Why unfortunately a lockknife? Is it illegal then? The good part is, it will not snap shut with your fingers in between it, when you are using it.

 

[Ogri the trog]

It certainly has value - even if that is in teaching you how to sharpen it properly.

Give it a new lease of life I say.

Ogri the trog

 

[sxmolloy]

I'd sharpen it up and use it personally. If you don't like the knife as a user I'd still keep it as a back up once it's got a good edge on it anyway.

 

[Shambling Shaman]

It certainly has value - even if that is in teaching you how to sharpen it properly.

Give it a new lease of life I say.

Ogri the trog

I'm with Ogri on this one, make good use of it

 

[MSkiba]

I'll go against the wind and say throw it away. When I say throw it, I mean donate it to someone who will put it to use.

This is just my personal preference as I no longer trust locking knives since a jack pike folded on my fingers. Im sure it fractured my bone!

 

[jtbutcher]

Why throw something away if you can still use it?
Sharpen it, make a sheath for it and take it out with you.
Why unfortunately a lockknife? Is it illegal then? The good part is, it will not snap shut with your fingers in between it, when you are using it.

Sorry I should clarify, my junk box is certainly not a bin, more just a safe place for things I dont have an immediate use for.

but there are laws against carrying a fixed blade over 3 inches in the uk without good reason. While I keep it well packed away in a padded ripstop sheath and usually in a box of my camping/outdoor gear, its not something I would be want to be caught with irrespective of having a good reason.

It certainly has value - even if that is in teaching you how to sharpen it properly.

Give it a new lease of life I say.

Ogri the trog

I'd sharpen it up and use it personally. If you don't like the knife as a user I'd still keep it as a back up once it's got a good edge on it anyway.

I will certainly look at getting it sharpend. Its not clear from the image but I have had a go at it with a whetstone without much luck, but that was a few years ago and attempted with little or no idea of what I was doing. Some reading to do I think.

Thanks for the responses

 

[vizsla]

wow iv got a knife exactly the same, it was my first ever knife as a kid iv had it over 15 years and its still as good as the day i got it, also it wasnt new when i got it so it could be quite abit older, id never throw mine just because it means something to me, i havnt used it for a while though.
if you do ever decide to throw away please throw it my way, be good for spare parts.
ash

 

[vizsla]

sorry just read the previous thread, if its the same blade as mine they do take some sharpening, id recomend usind a fine file/axe file and then just finish off with a wetstone.
hope that helps
ash

 

[flexo]

make a workshoproof knife with it ! the one to be used when no other one would be on duty...

 

[jtbutcher]

Thanks ash, I will definitely have a go at sharpening it but think I will be on the look out for something a little more compact for normal use

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[vizsla]

good idea iv just aquired a couple of new uk legal folders.
cheers ash

 

[789987]

you guys seem kinda paranoid about this locking knife thing. if im camping i always have a locking knife with me and never had a problem yet. i wouldnt walk around with any knife in town, but i havent been stopped by the police since i was in my teens so im struggling to understand your concern over the matter.

if your away up the hills with a pack and all the rest, and for some bizarre reason the police search you, the chances of it making it to court are slim to say the least

oh yeah - as for the knife in question, if thats the best knife you have, use it. alternatively if you have a preferred one use that!

 

[3bears]

you guys seem kinda paranoid about this locking knife thing. if im camping i always have a locking knife with me and never had a problem yet. i wouldnt walk around with any knife in town, but i havent been stopped by the police since i was in my teens so im struggling to understand your concern over the matter.

if your away up the hills with a pack and all the rest, and for some bizarre reason the police search you, the chances of it making it to court are slim to say the least

oh yeah - as for the knife in question, if thats the best knife you have, use it. alternatively if you have a preferred one use that!

hear hear!

as long as you can justify having the knife, there shouldn't be a problem!

lets be perfectly honest here gents, I think the 'old faithful' mora clipper we all seem to carry would have the fuzzy a lot more riled than a sub 3" folder that locks...

 

[vizsla]

i personaly only use non locking folders which i carry all the time but if im going on a outing or trip i take my fixed blade, iv never had much call for a locking folder
ash

 

[WeThePeoplexfbm]

i wouldnt throw it, just re do the blade so it nice and sharp^^

 

[Trev]

Heyho ,
I'd sharpen it and use it as a camp knife . Keep it with your camping gear , when you're camping it's as illegal as a standard cutlery knife from the kitchen draw .
Cheers , Trev .

 

[jtbutcher]

Heyho ,
I'd sharpen it and use it as a camp knife . Keep it with your camping gear , when you're camping it's as illegal as a standard cutlery knife from the kitchen draw .
Cheers , Trev .

At the moment my camping box is my junk box

Amazingly I have actually got an edge on it in the most horrific way possible

I'll have to do something about sharpening it properly.

 

[3bears]

At the moment my camping box is my junk box

Amazingly I have actually got an edge on it in the most horrific way possible

I'll have to do something about sharpening it properly.

noooooooooooooooooooooo! lol

 

[jtbutcher]

Ignoring the horrific contraption I have used on the blade so far, what would be my best grind on a knife like this? Due to the afore mentioned contraption and also attempts with a small (far too small) "reconstitued stone" sharpening stone, the edge is in a terrible state and needs some TLC.