I thought for my son's first knife it might be fun to refurbish an old Cub Scout knife and give it to him for Christmas (he's 7 years old). It came out really nice, but took wayyyy longer than I anticipated. Mostly because I've never worked on a knife other than standard polishing / sharpening and it was a lot of 1 step forward - 2 steps back type of deal. I still need to sharpen it, but other than that it's done. Fun learning experience, but I don't think I'll be tackling this again for a while. Here's some before and after pics.
Well done. The next one will go more quickly. Do you have an approximate range of years for this knife?
Thanks guys. I appreciate it. Yeah, those years make sense to me. That's what drew me to the knife. I don't remember if it was my first knife or not, but I had one of these as a kid in Cub Scouts which would have been around 1980 or so.... It's probably still out in the woods somewhere in the Pacific Northwest
Great job. A boy's first knife. A right of passage for boys (and girls) lucky enough to have someone like austin73 looking out for them.
