Mine does not have this feature. Perhaps yours is one of the "special edition" models. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

Possibly a spiny starfish invasion? that would be my logical guess. That, or magic.

bld522,
My SS4 do not have the "spiny starfish".. however my SwampRat HRLM has 2 of them. I think it increases knife value by $2.00 per star.. which during happy hour, is worth 2 shooters.

I'm guessing it's where the coating dripped.

I'm pretty sure microscopic organisms are involved. Don't eat your SS4.

mine has the same little drips. I doubt it would add or subtract any value.
It could be drips or pockmarks in the steel where coating collects. I don't mind as it is going to wear away with use and it makes it so I can tell my SS4 in a pile of them.

I'm afraid that is rust under the crinklecoat,might as well give it to me !!!

A lot of the more recent Swamp Rat's have had those. Terry Newton and I looked like idiots one day closely peering at knives to spot which ones had them.

The star pattern spots really like to show up on the mud coating. It is hard to describe without seeing it first hand but you did a nice job! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Paddling man,
Yeah he did!
I vote that bld522 be made the official describer of weird things found on Scrap Yard knives.

Drink enough and they crawl, my friend, they crawl. Can you feel them on your scalp now??

Itsee, bitsee spider
climbed up the...

oh, nevermind! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Yeah, I’ve spent some time looking close at my Rats looking at shapes in the coating. It’s like looking for designs in the clouds. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

But I've never seen an elephant in crinkle coating either, but I have in the clouds... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

i saw a snarling rhinoceros with smoke coming out of its nostrils.. charging out of a cloud..

wait.. it could've been in a disney movie..

"James and the Giant Peach" !
..that's the movie with the flying rhino in the cloud!

..just drew a blank before..

Okkaaaayyyy guys... don't inhale so deeply and pass it on quicker... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Wouldn't that defeat the purpose? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

hehe.. ah yes.. looking for the meaning of life.. within the crinkle coat..

It could be an alien! If it doesn't appear on your knife any more, watch out!!

yeah! LOL
bld's already creeped out by them!

LOL!!!

Personally I never really looked at my crinkle coat close enough to find shapes in it. Then again I've also got cable so there might be a correlation there.

Me neither, and I have cable too!! Hmmmm. You might be right about the correlation!! LOL!

hmm.. could it be that.. bld522 doesn't have cable then?

You never know. You just never know Tony.

that's right.. how does one ever Know..?
nothing is really for certain.. only relativistic.
all we can do ..is correlate.

You WILL know!!

Wow that was deep man. What if c,a,t, really spells dog?

Wonder if this all a dream? And when the person wakes up, it is all gone!! Hmmmm.

Hmm...where as I have no cable and only get like 7 channels... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />