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- Thread starter Gehazi
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Bawanna that's a gorgeous job on that folder.
Gehazi- when I do restore old stuff, unless it's junky or really badly damaged I try to do everything by hand. Quite often at the kitchen table...the less old blades are exposed to vises and grinders the better...the tool marks are more appropriate and mistakes are not as catastrophic...
Gehazi- when I do restore old stuff, unless it's junky or really badly damaged I try to do everything by hand. Quite often at the kitchen table...the less old blades are exposed to vises and grinders the better...the tool marks are more appropriate and mistakes are not as catastrophic...
Bawanna
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Been a lot of rehandling talk around here of late so with the day off today I decided to tackle one I've been putting off for close to 20 years. I've no idea of the origin of this knife. It was a friend of my mom's who spent a lot of time in Alaska. It was handless when we found it in his earthly belongings after he passed. My nephew found it and wanted it but his dad said no since he was only 8 or 9 at the time.
I told him I'd rehandle it and give it to him at a later date. No need to rush into these things I reckon.
No markings of any kind. I know it's a caping knife, it was kind of rusty when we found it. Didn't get any better sitting in my drawer for 20 years.
I cut out some walnut but didn't find it appealing a week or so ago so left it. This morning I found a piece of Mulberry and cut it out. I used some rifle stock brass repair pins from Brownells, they are about 1/8", plenty strong enough for a knife like this. Also used acra glas. Slathered both slabs like peanut butter along with the pins which I'd cut about an 1/8" long. Then clamped it in a vise with rubber pads so the pins would absorb into the rubber and still squeeze the slabs together well. After it tacked up, I peened the pins and put it back in the vise.
A little filing, shaping and sanding and some linseed oil and we'll see how they look in the morning.
Didn't do a whole lot today but at least I accomplished something.
I told him I'd rehandle it and give it to him at a later date. No need to rush into these things I reckon.
No markings of any kind. I know it's a caping knife, it was kind of rusty when we found it. Didn't get any better sitting in my drawer for 20 years.
I cut out some walnut but didn't find it appealing a week or so ago so left it. This morning I found a piece of Mulberry and cut it out. I used some rifle stock brass repair pins from Brownells, they are about 1/8", plenty strong enough for a knife like this. Also used acra glas. Slathered both slabs like peanut butter along with the pins which I'd cut about an 1/8" long. Then clamped it in a vise with rubber pads so the pins would absorb into the rubber and still squeeze the slabs together well. After it tacked up, I peened the pins and put it back in the vise.
A little filing, shaping and sanding and some linseed oil and we'll see how they look in the morning.
Didn't do a whole lot today but at least I accomplished something.
