One belonged to my grandfather, it's a Solingen blade bought somtime around WWI. It's hollow ground, and has a design of a small herd of deer in a meadow on it's left side, but has been severely scratched up by a child who once attempted to sharpen it on a bench grinder, (Stupid, stupid, stupid), and the deers hoof handle crumbled and came apart back in the sixties, and was replaced with a leather wrap.
The other was made by my father, aboard the USS Hornet, from a section of a damaged BTF propellar blade. Originally it had a handle made of stacked leather washers with a large aluminum buttcap, but that handle rotted, and the butcapp was lost, so the knife now has the tang epoxied into a hole down the center of a huge single piece of stag.
I'd be interested in restoring these knives to their original condition if possible. Any suggestions?
The other was made by my father, aboard the USS Hornet, from a section of a damaged BTF propellar blade. Originally it had a handle made of stacked leather washers with a large aluminum buttcap, but that handle rotted, and the butcapp was lost, so the knife now has the tang epoxied into a hole down the center of a huge single piece of stag.
I'd be interested in restoring these knives to their original condition if possible. Any suggestions?
