New/old Schrade Schrimshaw lockback gifted to me today...

PocketKnifeJimmy

PocketKnifeJimmy

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Was at the gym this morning putting in a workout, before I would have to then return to the gym again for my work shift (as I am the gym's Personal Fitness Instructor)... and I had a nice friendly member give me this knife! He began by telling me that his son had given it to him. It seems his son had worked in building a house of "one of" or "the" Schrade factory owner(s). Anyhow, this house owner gave this knife to his son, and now he was giving it to me. It has never been used, but carries some "brass desease" on it's bolster areas from being stored in it's sheath. I am pretty confident I can bring her back to 100% new condition appearance with some careful elbow grease. Anyhow, I imagine this weekend will see my devoting some time on this project. I'd start right away, if it were not for that pesky thing... you know, my job and my needing shelter and food! LOL! ;)
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Very cool knife and even better story to go along with the knife! I like the Schrade Scrimshaw series. Thanks for sharing.
 
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Thanks guys! I could not wait to work on her... made the time to do it, and here she is with her brass back to 100% factory condition... She is a beauty! :)

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This project of carefully restoring this knife's brass frame, (removing tarnish and polishing), easily took me about four hours. I used no machines... just old school elbow grease :)
It was worth every moment I spent on her to wind up with these results :)
 
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Jimmy,
How did you get the pits out of the bolsters? I have an LB8 with pits like that, I hit it with a dremel polishing wheel and polish and it shined up nice but the pits are still there. Did you start with sanding? Or just rub on it till you got that result? That's a spectacular job of restoration.
 
I carefully used matte finish scotch tape to cover the scales and covered the opened blade.
then used a large cardboard type finger nail file (coarse side) to evenly and flatly sand out the flats of the bolsters until pits were gone.
Then used less coarse side of the nail file.
Then used a polishing rouge on a an old t-shirt.
Then used Flitz metal polish on another t-shirt.
Then, took all of the tape off and finished up a bit with a jewelery polishing cloth.

4 hours, but I am OCD that way... lol! ;)

Thanks for the compliment :)
 
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Nice job, nice knife and a good story, Jimmy!:thumbup:
 
Thank you, Gary :).... The gentleman's gesture of generousity was totally unexpected, it has made my weekend start off feeling very right :)
 
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