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Sword collecting lands Vancouver ‘tinkerer’ on History Channel

By Adam Littman, Columbian Staff Writer
Published: November 28, 2018, 6:04am
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Ken Tucker works on shaping a dagger from a recycled sword that broke.
Ken Tucker works on shaping a dagger from a recycled sword that broke. Tucker recycles old steel blades and materials to shape and create his own swords on his porch workshop in Vancouver, and he recently appeared on the History Channel’s “Forged in Fire: Knife or Death.” Photos by Alisha Jucevic/The Columbian Photo Gallery

As legend tells it, King Arthur pulled one of his famed swords out of stone and received another from the Lady of the Lake.

Similarly, Ken Tucker’s search for swords has led the Vancouver resident on a few journeys of his own, from the Goodwill on Northeast Fourth Plain Road to flea markets far and wide to the Goodwill off Mill Plain Boulevard.

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