

Then there are the fittings, the guard and pommel. To be perfectly fair, it does have mold marks on it which bear some resemblance to beautiful carving. It's a crudely injection-molded lump of what appears to be white polyethelylene, the stuff milk cartons are made of - not the translucent plastic milk cartons, the opaque white plastic milk cartons. That brings us to the handle, which the ad in Parade Magazine described as a beautifully carved work of art in faux ivory, or something like that. Maybe they were afraid if they tried to do that it would break. the bladelike sheet of aluminum or whatever it is appears to have a short tang like a file, just stuck into the handle, and they should have hammered it in about an inch farther (25.4mm). it has no edges, which cleverly gets around the laws some jurisdictions have against daggers with double edges. hard to say what might be under that triple-chrome plating). His is a large dagger with a blade apparently made of chrome-plated aluminum (or it might be mild steel. if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. I didn't mind the picture of you with the Micra, VG, but PLEASE don't post any pictures of Franklin Mint knives! You want to give us all nightmares? It's bad enough just talking about them - no pictures, PLEASE!Ī friend of mine showed me his when it first arrived in the mail and obviously wanted me to admire it. Tags: Academy Of St.Franklin Mint knives? Aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Verdi, Leoncavallo, Bellini, Mozart, Charpentier, MussorgskyĠ50. Ravel, Chabrier, Tchaikovsky, SibeliusĠ21. Franklin Mint 100 Greatest Recordings of All Time (100 LP box set, 24 bit / 96 kHz, FLAC)īottlehead Seduction Tube Phono Preamp, Bottlehead Foreplay Tube PreampĠ10.
