How To disassemble a fixed blade knife

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Michal

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Hello everybody, newbie here:)

I have an older knife I want to restore - its William Rogers "I cut my way" scouting knife with a leather (I think) handle. It's not in too bad condition, so I was thinking to give it a nice polish, but when I started to clean it I noticed that the guard has a gap and I can see the thang is rusted quite a lot. I was thinking that it might be a good idea to remove the pommel and clean it all. But I have no idea how to do it - is it a tang pinned over a brass insert? It seems like I need to grind the pinned end until everything falls apart and then re-pin it with a slightly shorter handle/pommel. I don't want to go about it by destroying the handle as it looks It will look good with a bit of restoration. Any ideas or comments?

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If you disassemble it, it will be VERY difficult to ever make it look right again.
Someone has already lacquered the handle. Use a sharp file on the handle and file in a circular motion around the handle, always going in the same direction. If you choose to use sandpaper, again-always in the same direction-never back and forth.
If you reall must disassemble, drill two holes in the brass nut, and turn it out with a modified screwdriver.
 
You can't easily remove the tang nut once it is installed and cut/ground even. Best to restore whole as Bill suggested. Go slow and take it down a little at a time. The blade is bad, but will restore. I would leave the deepest of the pock marks once it is down flat and looking better, They will give it "character".
 
Thanks guys, I guess I will try to clean it up first without disassembling.

Anyways this does not seem like a threaded tang to me - the brass nut is hexagonal, how would I turn it within the pommel? Pommel does not turn itself (I tried). Is there something I am missing?
 
The aluminum pommel was probably forged down (pressed in dies) to lock the pommel on both the tang and the nut, then the excess nut was ground away.
 
I have one of those, (pretty sure its same anyway) its not coming apart without a Big Clive xray.
As Stacy mentioned, its a swaged assembly that was ground to final shape.
 
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