Scored three nice sheffield made kitchen knives at the local car boot sale this
morning for 5euro, don’t know much about kitchen knives but these just looked
class, like everything in Ireland they came with a story - according to the lady
seller they belonged to her 75 year old butcher grandfather, they were his best
knives and he kept them in that very leather brief case with the rest of his
butchering tools (cheapest plastic handle steak knives) …yawn!
found this on a knife forum - (knife sold for 150 usd.) -
Latham and Owen started in 1921 and became famous for there knives and table
ware. The plant was destroyed in 1940 by the bloody Germans and was immediately
rebuilt after the war, The Sergeant line was started then. Beautiful old growth
rosewood handles and nickel pins.
The third and largest knife I am told by an old tool buddy is an army chefs
knife.
Also scored a couple of carving tools (taylor and marples) and a little norton
crystolon wheel, I used to use these on my tungsten stone carving tools but I
want to put it on a hand cranked grinder for carbon steel, I presume it would be
a better job for carbon steel than the off balance grey stone on my hand
cranked?
Also don’t know how I should go about cleaning them up but I was thinking same
way I would treat an old saw plate, scrape rust off with a disposable scraper
blade, then rub with a fairly fine wet and dry with some lubrication?
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