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Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:29 pm
by TPK
A few pictures.
This first knife here is a "JEFFINN-72".

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:29 pm
by TPK
A few pictures.

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:29 pm
by TPK
A few pictures.

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:29 pm
by TPK
Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:16 pm
by 1967redrider
Excellent idea, Tom!
BTW, I use the same lighter fluid.

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:49 pm
by Ripster
Tom, thatβs a pretty good idea, and your fix so as not to scratch anything is simple enough . When I read your first post got thinking, maybe some thin felt instead of paper to mellow out the magnetic pull .
Good luck with your new position ,hope the desk job is a promotion!
Take care over there my friend

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:15 pm
by New_Windsor_NY
TPK wrote: βSat Apr 10, 2021 7:28 pm
Hello.....
Good l

king displays, Tom!
A GREAT way to reuse tins, G@@D idea!

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 11:54 pm
by Dan In MI
I had a similar idea: affixing magnets to pieces of wood. Now I'm going to see what sort of ferrous scrap I have laying around, and find a source for some magnets. Thanks for sharing the pictures and giving me some inspiration!
Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 12:41 am
by tongueriver
Great ideas. Thanks; I might try that. I put a thin sheet of steel from Home Depot behind this Schrade Walden countertop store display unit and used those little strong rare earth magnets under each knife blade. If the frame of the knife is too thick I have to use a double thickness of little magnets to raise the frame off the steel backing. Works OK. A little selection of pre-war stockman and cattle knives in celluloid.
Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:25 am
by TPK
tongueriver wrote: βSun Apr 11, 2021 12:41 am
Great ideas. Thanks; I might try that. I put a thin sheet of steel from Home Depot behind this Schrade Walden countertop store display unit and used those little strong rare earth magnets under each knife blade. If the frame of the knife is too thick I have to use a double thickness of little magnets to raise the frame off the steel backing. Works OK. A little selection of pre-war stockman and cattle knives in celluloid.
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Oh Heck Yeah!!!

That's a great idea!

Thanks for sharing!

Beautiful knives also!

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 1:39 pm
by jerryd6818
I have a bunch of those little magnets "hanging around" so I super-glued one into my little antler stand for pictures. That antler was/is so slick where I cut it that there were times when I struggled to get the knife in the proper position. Not anymore. Works like a champ. Thanks for the idea.
Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 3:54 pm
by TPK
jerryd6818 wrote: βSun Apr 11, 2021 1:39 pm
I have a bunch of those little magnets "hanging around" so I super-glued one into my little antler stand for pictures. That antler was/is so slick where I cut it that there were times when I struggled to get the knife in the proper position. Not anymore. Works like a champ. Thanks for the idea.
Great idea Jerry!

I thought of you when I started this thread because I remembered you buying some of these a good while back.

I had asked you something about them but don't remember what exactly.

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 3:58 pm
by TPK
Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:06 pm
by TPK
Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:15 pm
by TPK
Few more pictures.

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:24 pm
by TPK
Few more pictures.

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:31 pm
by TPK
Few more pictures.

First off is the Whatchamacallit.

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:54 pm
by TPK
These are pictures of my "Case-Family-Collection" that is still incomplete.

I still need a Case knife from the year 2001 to represent my son. These 4 knives represent the rest of us.
( 1972, 1975, 2003 & 2007 )

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:11 pm
by TPK
Few more pictures.

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:21 pm
by TPK
And..., a few more pictures.
The Blue Mini Trapper was a gift from my wife Silvia & my very first Case knife.

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:36 pm
by Dan In MI
After seeing the pictures, I have two questions. What is the significance of "Uncle Tom" on the spoon? And what is the knife with the Blue Grass Tools logo? (Any knife having anything to do with Bluegrass is of interest to me.)
I like the family collection idea. Great pictures of a great collection, too!
Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:36 pm
by TPK
I'm getting close to the end of my pictures now.

What started out as "a few pictures" this morning turned into a 3-hr Photo Shoot. It was a lot of fun for me & the time just flew by. I actually had to force myself to stop taking pictures.
I call these pictures of knife sculptures.

My daughter said "That's not art! That's just caos!"
She has so much to learn about beauty!

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:44 pm
by TPK
And finally, the rest of what I have.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures & thanks for looking!

Re: Working with magnets. Fun, cheap & easy for displays or picture taking!
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:51 pm
by New_Windsor_NY
TPK wrote: βSun Apr 11, 2021 6:44 pm
And.....
Ahhhhh.....nothing beats a good Pop-Tarts sugar rush.
Very nice, chaotic, sculptures Tom.
(I had to agree with your daughter, a little)
