Wenger and Buck Clip Points

Hmm!  Wenger made knives for Buck from 1991-98 or 99.  Then the deal ended.  Crumby figured that Wenger had to have left over parts that never got made up into Swiss Bucks.  Like left over clip point blades probably eventually made their way into the Evolution series knives that appeared in 2005, some with clip point blades.  Yet Crumby's theory may be wrong.  Because Crumby's Wenger and Buck clip point blades are not the same.  They are slightly different.  See the angles of the notches at the tangs.  They are different. The nail nicks are also, different.

Crumby just received the Wenger.   It is a soft touch with "tactile" scales.  It also smells bad.  Crumby can not identify the smell precisely.  It may be a combination of tobacco smoke, Juicy Fruit and Aqua Velva.

The vendor who sold this knife to Crumby did not mention its odour. However, Crumby gave the vendor the benefit of a doubt and did not give him bad feedback for not mentioning the odour.  Maybe all soft touches smell.  Is that possible?

Anyway,  Crumby is a man of action and resolved to do something to ameliorate the stink.  First, he put the knife on a tissue, then covered it front and back with Arm & Hammer.  He let that sit for a couple of hours. Then he washed it off in tap water.  Now the knife barely stinks.  Crumby is fixing to wash it again with hot water and Dawn dish soap.  Dawn, because it is the choice of astronomers everywhere

.Errata:  Originally the dish soap noted above was spelled Dial.  Ugh!  We meant to spell Dawn.  The correction has been made.  Hopefully, little or no harm resulted from this error.