Knife help!!

Monofletch

Monofletch

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I have my grandpa's WWII Ka-Bar. It needs some work done to the blade and a new sheath. I was thinking having something "custom" done, but haven't decided yet. Other than sentimental value is this knife worth the effort? What kind of $$ am I looking at? The blade rust free but has some small chips-nothing that can't be taken out my someone that knows what they are doing. LOL!

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If it were my Gramp's knife it would be worth it to me.

You might be able to get a sheath for around 20-50 and maybe less -it depends on the quality and the features you want. I would expect it to cost anywhere from 10 to 20 dollars to fix an old nicked blade of that size, but I have never used a service like that. You could always buy a sharpener and learn to sharpen yourself. It is not as hard as some people make it out to be.
 
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outside of the fact that knife is grandads, these have some collector value. i would leave it as is & buy another knife. the costs of improvement could approach replacing as a user , a new kabar .
 
If it were my grandpa's ka-bar I'd keep it as is and take care of it. Put some oil on it everynow and then, pick it up and admire it. You can get yourself a kabar with heavy duty leather sheath. They also come with pretty decent edges. That's just my $.02 though.

I know leather sheaths can be found for something like 30-50 for leather and 20-40 for kydex. I couldn't say how much a new handle would cost, I'm not thinkin' cheap though. Your sharpening can be done by a few members who charge for this service, I think the memper pimpnugget sharpens knives at a very reasonable price. Look him up and ask him, he's very talented.
 
DennisStrickland said:
outside of the fact that knife is grandads, these have some collector value. i would leave it as is & buy another knife. the costs of improvement could approach replacing as a user , a new kabar .
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What he said I ran into a similar delima with a old Itahaca 12 Gauge shotgun that was given to me by my grandfather, I debated on getting it reblued but decided against it because I wanted to leave it as is the way he gave it to me and one day pass it down to my son... I would leave the blade as is and buy another KA-bar and use that one..
 
DennisStrickland said:
outside of the fact that knife is grandads, these have some collector value. i would leave it as is & buy another knife. the costs of improvement could approach replacing as a user , a new kabar .
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And, if the knife does have value as a collector, "restoring" it will probably reduce or eliminate that value. Might be worth checking on this before you do anything to the knife.
 
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