Restoration of a Father's Knife

[Bjoern]

hello! this is my first post here on this forum (i enjoyed it as a reader for a long time). i'm from austria and from the age of about 10 till last year i carried "just" saks but as i'm getting older and my interest in traditional knives got bigger and i started to restore old knives and i'm trying to make traditionals myself i decided to become more active here and share some pics with you....i hope i get it right and i hope i will be accepted by the community here. be gentle

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... almost forgot to say something about the knife...its an old one (about 30 years i guess) i found in my fathers garage, it was completely rusty and the scales were broken. the blade is carbon steel and flat ground almost to zero just on one side so its razor sharp. its solingen made but the tang stamp is hard to read... could be X.m.R. but couldnt find any company with that initials...

 

[Jack Black]

Welcome sir

 

[Bjoern]

thank you sir!

 

[knarfeng]

You did a great job! Welcome, friend.

 

[Student762]

greetings, nice knife.:thumbup:

 

[Bjoern]

whooo...i got my own thread thank you for the warm welcomes!
here is another one, the blade was in very bad condition...
the style is similar to a "trattenbacher feitl" - so its a friction folder without locking mechanism and with a quite thin blade but razor sharp...dont know neither age (definitely +30) nor manufacturer.
and its big, i put a case jumbo stockman for comparison aside

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[incision]

Really cool old knives. Don't see many like that. Welcome!

 

[Cory Hess]

Very cool knives. Thank you for sharing. I always like to see knives from other locales, they are very different from what I normally see. Welcome to the forums, good first thread.

 

[RickT57]

I really like those. Ont the first blade does the lump have a purpose? Rick

 

[Bjoern]

i guess its a budding knife-see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_budding thats the reason for the extreme sharp single bevel edge and the lump.

 

[Jack Black]

whooo...i got my own thread thank you for the warm welcomes!

I think the idea is that you use this thread (originally posted in Old Knives) to post about the restoration of your father's knife Bjoern! :thumbup:

 

[eisman]

The scales on your budding knife appear to be gutta percha, a material that was popular around the turn of the last century 1900. It looks like a plastic, but it's not. You can fill the cracks using a black epoxy (make it using a drop of enamel in 10 times as much resin), or using a gap filling CYA glue (for plastic hobby kits). Then you can sand it down and it should look good.

Whatever you do, do not put this knife in a ultra sound tank to clean it. That will destroy those scales.

 

[navihawk]

The bottom one looks like a Western Europe figural "penny knife". Made around the turn of the century possibly.
The budding knife looks like it says Solingen under the makers mark.
Nice knives. Welcome.

 

[Bjoern]

@jack: i got the idea, was just a bit overwhelmed to get an own thread
@eisman: thanks for your advice! is gutta percha the same as bakelit? i thought the scales were made of this, as it is a bit brittle and does feel "warm" compared to other plastic. i do have epoxy and something to color it black but not too shure if i should do it as i dont use the knives, i wanted to preserve them as they are.
hmm...would be nice to know how old these knives are, i asked my father about it but he doesnt know and my grandfather is not here anymore to ask. maybe someone has seen the tang stamp before?

 

[Jack Black]

@jack: i got the idea, was just a bit overwhelmed to get an own thread

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Gutta-percha - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha

We don't hear much about this these days :thumbup:

 

[Bjoern]

interesting...maybe i find a way to find out what material it is...thanks jack and eisman for the information!
@steve: you are right, when i was a boy, a penny knife (here called "feitl" could be won at games at the "kirtag" or "kirmes" in germany or was a give away from companies for advertisement.
i have a few left which my grandfather won for me at the kirtag to show the difference...the posted knife is much larger and i consider it older as well as the other two are about 25 jears. all of them have really thin blades, even thinner than opinels

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[Bjoern]

double post

 

[paulhilborn]

Welcome Bjoern:thumbup: and thanks for posting these great knives

 

[glennbad]

Welcom, and thanks for sharing these knives. There is no better feeling than caring for something that has family connections, and bringing them back to useful again.