Very nice job. When I first started reading I cringed. So you do it all by hand? I bought a book several years ago about pocket knife repair but have yet to have the guts to do anything. I may have to pick up some cheapies off the bay and go for it.
The hardest part is just convincing yourself to go for it.
Here are the tools I used....
Various hand tools and a dremel with a grinding wheel and a buffing wheel.
An ancient DeWalt bench grinder/buffer that I put sanding disks on the side of the grinding wheel and on the top plate...
Bench vise
2 flat sanding bars, a 7/8" dowel with sandpaper stuck on it for a round sanding bar, sandpaper and steel wool
I used the dremel with grinding wheel to take off the rivet heads.
Used pin punch and hammer to tap rivets through the scales.
Seal the scale rivet holes in the frame. I used masking tape in the inside of the frame. But on the 112 there is a rivet hole behind the lockbar spring and that has to be filled from the outside (I used a dab of epoxy for that)
If you don't block those holes epoxy will get where you do not want it inside the frame!
Used the razor saw to get really close to the right shape to fit the frame, sand a bit and epoxy them on.
Use hack saw blades to remove excess wood.
Then the sanding features on the ancient grinder to get more excess wood off...
After that it was just a matter of rough sanding it down by hand and then finish sanding through some finer grits and steel wool at the end.
A little buffing wheel time on the frame/bolsters.
A good drenching in motor oil and wiping it down.
All done in about 3.5 hours while watching a nascar race on the computer in the garage
O M G that is bootifulisious
Thank you. I find myself staring at it in the sunlight quite a bit
The grain patterns in the burl are crazy.
