Grandfather's Sabre needs help!

[ac3boyz]

Please let me know if this post should be somewhere else.

I have my grandfather's Saber knife. I don't ever remember him using it but I always remember it being around the house. It has a definite problem that I would like to fix if possible. Anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks,

 

[Bill DeShivs]

Fixing it properly is not something the average person is likely to be able to do.
The backspring pin must be removed, and the pivot pin removed, liners/bolsters straightened, new pivot and backspring pin installed.

 

[ac3boyz]

Fixing it properly is not something the average person is likely to be able to do.
The backspring pin must be removed, and the pivot pin removed, liners/bolsters straightened, new pivot and backspring pin installed.

Thank you for the info. I'm guessing it would cost more to fix it than it's actually worth, even if I could find someone capable of the task.
That's ok, the memories are the same regardless of the condition of the knife.

 

[Bill DeShivs]

I can repair it, but it won't be cheap.

 

[sickpuppy1]

I have a pocket knife that belonged to my father and it was treated with little respect. I did clean up the edges, but other than that I left it alone. It is more a sentimental thing to me, just the way he left it......

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

My Dad carried a yellow-handled Sabre fish knife for years, on the fishing trips we took in NM and CO when I was growing up. Sharpened it with a triangular file. Nothing fancy about that knife, in itself. But it cleaned a lot of trout and other fish we caught on all those trips and became a significant part of all the good memories of that time. After I'd grown up and moved away, he continued to to carry & use that knife during his retirement years when he and my mother were spending time in an RV up in Colorado.

I'd hoped to inherit that knife at some point. So it came as something of a gut punch when he told me he'd laid it down along a stream bank one day after cleaning some fish and walked away without remembering to pick it up. So it was lost forever, maybe poetically, along that stream bank. I can only hope somebody later found it and made good use of it.

There's great reward in being able to still pick up and look at those heirlooms, even if they're not really usable anymore.