t1mpani
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Basically, a horribly neglected old Kabar Mk 2 Navy that no longer had anything resembling an edge or point, with a bent guard, bent tang, handle made out of tennis racket tape and completely covered with rust. Somewhere along the line, it looks like someone had tried to clean the rust up with a flap wheel.
Anyhow, it was given to me as a challenge since I’d told the owner there was no such thing as a knife that couldn’t be sharpened. He’d told me that if I got it sharp he wanted to give it to his son as a first knife to learn with. Well, I just couldn’t imagine having to put up with this thing in the condition it was in, sharp or not, so I decided to clean it up a bit. It still has some “character” to it, a few marks on the flats I didn’t grind out because I didn’t want to decrease the stock thickness too much, and some of the deeper dings in the guard and pommel. Overall, though, I feel it’s an improvement, and perhaps a knife the kid won’t be embarrassed to pull out on their outdoor adventures.
Here’s how she came:
Anyhow, it was given to me as a challenge since I’d told the owner there was no such thing as a knife that couldn’t be sharpened. He’d told me that if I got it sharp he wanted to give it to his son as a first knife to learn with. Well, I just couldn’t imagine having to put up with this thing in the condition it was in, sharp or not, so I decided to clean it up a bit. It still has some “character” to it, a few marks on the flats I didn’t grind out because I didn’t want to decrease the stock thickness too much, and some of the deeper dings in the guard and pommel. Overall, though, I feel it’s an improvement, and perhaps a knife the kid won’t be embarrassed to pull out on their outdoor adventures.
Here’s how she came:
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I left the blade with just a phosphoric acid etch--little bit of corrosion protection and it's starting out stained and less than perfect so there won't be that cringe aspect of using it the first time.
