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Hello All. I was putting AC in my home and ran in to some problems, had to borrow some tools from my father in law. I went to his shed looking for some stuff and came across an old Benchmade that looked like it had been treated very poorly.
After asking the forum I was informed this is a Benchmade Mini Rukus and was actually a very nice blade originally. I decided to surprise my father in law and give this knife a rejuvenation. So the project began.
The opposite show side has some serious marring and there was paint and gunk all inside the action and internals. The knife barely opened and the blade was pitted. I got an Amazon package and tried to open it but the edge was so gone that it couldn't even cut the box tape. I imagine it had been used on concrete or something because the edge was rolled and the tip blunt. There was a decent amount of rust as well as you can see. I did a decent quick once over and cleaned a lot of the paint out, scraped some of the rust off the blade. i hit it with Shotgun bore cleaner and then some breakfree CLP. put in a little elbow grease with a shop rag and then it became this:
So my amazing wife and I just had a beautiful baby boy 3 weeks ago, she has been on Maternity leave and developed this addiction to trash television. I have never been much on TV to begin with but I hate trash TV especially. Long story short she was watching Ru Paul's drag race and then Dr Pimple popper. I quickly decided to dive deeper in to my project.
Complete disassemble down to the frame, soaked everything in Boiling hot water with dish soap. I drained out some very disgusting dirty water and dried it all off and started in on the rust. I hit the blade with 400 grit sandpaper and once all the rust was gone I got all the marring down to a soft smooth blade again, even getting a semi satin look going on.
Next I worked on the micarta, using the 400 grit to get all the top layer of oil and paint off. It is much better but not quite where I want it to be. Anyone have any advice on getting oil out of micarta? It looks like motor oil.
Last and most importantly I broke out the stones and started on the reprofile of the blade. I started with 600 then moved to 1000, 3000 and finally 8000... and of course a strop for good measure. the point was broken off so I used the 400 to try and add an edge to the top of the blade, the kind of bayonet grind going on.
You can see from the pictures that I got a decent cutting edge and the blade is sharp to the end of the blade but I didn't quite get a point that I wanted. I may hit the top and just flat grind it to get that point or I can always work on that false edge on top and just make a point too. Not quite sure yet but any input is greatly appreciated. Here she is now, please let me know what you think of the edge, I know I'm not a sharpening guru so I can take come criticism.
Tip,or lack there of:
Still some bad marring on the blade but it's a lot better than it was. Maybe a wheel and some polishing compound can get deep enough to knock it all down.
The final product:
Meal with the knife now as I write this:
Still need to work on this micarta and I could use a pocket clip:
After asking the forum I was informed this is a Benchmade Mini Rukus and was actually a very nice blade originally. I decided to surprise my father in law and give this knife a rejuvenation. So the project began.
The opposite show side has some serious marring and there was paint and gunk all inside the action and internals. The knife barely opened and the blade was pitted. I got an Amazon package and tried to open it but the edge was so gone that it couldn't even cut the box tape. I imagine it had been used on concrete or something because the edge was rolled and the tip blunt. There was a decent amount of rust as well as you can see. I did a decent quick once over and cleaned a lot of the paint out, scraped some of the rust off the blade. i hit it with Shotgun bore cleaner and then some breakfree CLP. put in a little elbow grease with a shop rag and then it became this:
So my amazing wife and I just had a beautiful baby boy 3 weeks ago, she has been on Maternity leave and developed this addiction to trash television. I have never been much on TV to begin with but I hate trash TV especially. Long story short she was watching Ru Paul's drag race and then Dr Pimple popper. I quickly decided to dive deeper in to my project.
Complete disassemble down to the frame, soaked everything in Boiling hot water with dish soap. I drained out some very disgusting dirty water and dried it all off and started in on the rust. I hit the blade with 400 grit sandpaper and once all the rust was gone I got all the marring down to a soft smooth blade again, even getting a semi satin look going on.
Next I worked on the micarta, using the 400 grit to get all the top layer of oil and paint off. It is much better but not quite where I want it to be. Anyone have any advice on getting oil out of micarta? It looks like motor oil.
Last and most importantly I broke out the stones and started on the reprofile of the blade. I started with 600 then moved to 1000, 3000 and finally 8000... and of course a strop for good measure. the point was broken off so I used the 400 to try and add an edge to the top of the blade, the kind of bayonet grind going on.
You can see from the pictures that I got a decent cutting edge and the blade is sharp to the end of the blade but I didn't quite get a point that I wanted. I may hit the top and just flat grind it to get that point or I can always work on that false edge on top and just make a point too. Not quite sure yet but any input is greatly appreciated. Here she is now, please let me know what you think of the edge, I know I'm not a sharpening guru so I can take come criticism.
Tip,or lack there of:
Still some bad marring on the blade but it's a lot better than it was. Maybe a wheel and some polishing compound can get deep enough to knock it all down.
The final product:
Meal with the knife now as I write this:
Still need to work on this micarta and I could use a pocket clip:
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