restoration help?

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inzane

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these are a few knives that i have gotten from a freind of the family and they are in horrible shape and i was wondering if anyone could give me some pointers on how to get them a little bit cleaned up i know there pretty beat but ive never really fixed up any old knives before and i would love to get these to look good any help would be awsome

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Well first you need a good metal cleaner/polish like Flitz, or maybe Mother's.

Although make sure those are not some "last kife ever made by famous knife maker worth $5000 until you cleaned it" sort of thing.

The one with stag looks like deep pitting , you'll never get that back to tip top shape but you can certainly make it useable.

Polish off all rust present , clean pivots and insides of slippies with CLP or WD40 and q tips , maybe stuff some fine steel wool down there ( dry) and scrub it clean . clean up any brass on those slippies , wipe off all dirty cleaner and oil then lube with maybe some CLP or whatever you choice is.
I like to use a little bit of orange oil/beezwax polish to bring back a handle's luster , polishing off any oils of course so its not slippery.
 
Soak the knives with WD 40 or lightweight oil for a few days. Wipe them clean with rags. If there is still active rust on the steel, 0000 steel wool & WD 40 will remove it.
Bill
 
the wood handle blade is cleaning up quite nicesly i hit it with some wd40 last night and steel wool all the black on it came of after some hard scrubbing with the wool and all that green stuff came of the brass and the stag knife rele isnt cleaning up at all, rebeltf you said to use flintz? i have a big can of it when is a good time to aply that? and should i also use that on the wood handles or is that just a metal polish?
 
Use the steel wool on the steel parts only! Use it gently! I really don't think the "black" was supposed to come off that knife!
Use the Flitz on the handles, gently. Be careful not to get it into the mechanisms or internals. Buff with a soft cloth.
Your Schrade folder is worth considerable money. Do nothing to it except WD 40/rag/oil.
Bill
 
It looked like an applied finish to me. I could be wrong.
Bill
 
I think he meant the oxidation/rust , by saying the black stuff.

What Bill said pretty much covers it.
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