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I just got this knife which, for all intents and purposes, is a butterfly knife. They either didn't want to call it a "butterfly" or "balisong" because they were marketing it as a fishing knife (it's even got a scaler on the back of the blade) or they didn't want to associate it with a weapon.
It's a "Waltco Saf-T-Sheath Outdoor Knife". It's from the 40s. It's a very well made knife, made in the USA. I especially like the little coil latch; it is much better than the little t-bar that most butterlies have and don't stay in place. You can flip it just like any good balisong.
Has anyone seen one of these or know anything about them?
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This is the magic incantation congress uses to constantly violate the 10th Amendment - "...the manufacture, sale, transportation, distribution, possession, or introduction into interstate commerce of such shall be prohibited"
I went to clean the top pin on the front right handle. I thought it was covered with rust but when I went to clean it up, it just disinitigrated. A pin had been lost (it must have been decades ago) and someone replaced it with a wood peg/piece. It was like a log that has been underground for years; when you go to pick it up, it just crumbles into dirt.
So I made a pin from a nail that matched pretty closely. It fit perectly into the hole in the tang and functions as good as new.
You can see the difference in these two pictures.
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