Hi everyone,
Just made this account. Pretty much for the purpose of asking this but I think I'll hang around a bit.
Anyways, my grandfather passed away just before Christmas and as we were clearing out his house my dad found an old knife of his which they let me have. We have no information on this knife. My aunt and uncle didn't even know it existed until they found it. I can't see any distinguishing marks like logos or anything at all on it, the best guess we have is that he got it when he was working in the Bahamas, or Bermuda. Would've been roughly 1960-75 I think.
My issue is that I want to get it into working condition, while obviously preserving the patina it has built up as much as possible. So here's a few pictures. Sorry for cell phone quality.
Most of the knife. You can see near the tip of the blade there's some...Stuff. It's white-ish and feels almost like old gum.
The blade, hopefully some of the scratches can help someone give me some information on it, something like how it's been sharpened, I really don't know.
Closer look at the stuff I mentioned. It looks brown-ish but there's no rust on the blade.
Ok, bad picture I know. But if you look at your screen from an angle you can see the stuff in better contrast. I might re-post this one after messing with the colours.
Now, the handle is interesting as well, and I hope it could be a clue to figure out this knife.
As you can see, the grip is made of pieces of plastic with thin metal discs sandwiched between them after every 2 plastic bits. The colours inside I think are from either the plastic or metal inside oxidizing slightly. Also, the end cap you can see unscrews.
As you can see here.
And the handle pieces slide off, although most of them are jammed on there and I can't get them off, this was clearly the design.
Which lets us see this, which is the tang held in what is, essentially, a headless bolt. The plastic and metal pieces all have holes shaped to fit over that.
This post contains literally everything I know about this knife. If anyone could help out or offer an educated guess about anything from where it came from to how to remove the stuff on the blade without damaging it, to if I can sharpen it properly, I would greatly appreciate it.
Just made this account. Pretty much for the purpose of asking this but I think I'll hang around a bit.
Anyways, my grandfather passed away just before Christmas and as we were clearing out his house my dad found an old knife of his which they let me have. We have no information on this knife. My aunt and uncle didn't even know it existed until they found it. I can't see any distinguishing marks like logos or anything at all on it, the best guess we have is that he got it when he was working in the Bahamas, or Bermuda. Would've been roughly 1960-75 I think.
My issue is that I want to get it into working condition, while obviously preserving the patina it has built up as much as possible. So here's a few pictures. Sorry for cell phone quality.
Most of the knife. You can see near the tip of the blade there's some...Stuff. It's white-ish and feels almost like old gum.
The blade, hopefully some of the scratches can help someone give me some information on it, something like how it's been sharpened, I really don't know.
Closer look at the stuff I mentioned. It looks brown-ish but there's no rust on the blade.
Ok, bad picture I know. But if you look at your screen from an angle you can see the stuff in better contrast. I might re-post this one after messing with the colours.
Now, the handle is interesting as well, and I hope it could be a clue to figure out this knife.
As you can see, the grip is made of pieces of plastic with thin metal discs sandwiched between them after every 2 plastic bits. The colours inside I think are from either the plastic or metal inside oxidizing slightly. Also, the end cap you can see unscrews.
As you can see here.
And the handle pieces slide off, although most of them are jammed on there and I can't get them off, this was clearly the design.
Which lets us see this, which is the tang held in what is, essentially, a headless bolt. The plastic and metal pieces all have holes shaped to fit over that.
This post contains literally everything I know about this knife. If anyone could help out or offer an educated guess about anything from where it came from to how to remove the stuff on the blade without damaging it, to if I can sharpen it properly, I would greatly appreciate it.
