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My grandfather gave me one of his SAKS- a Victorinox Explorer. He actually gave it to me a while ago but it ended up staying at his house somehow, and I brought it home Friday. Well, I had some free time today so I gave it some MUCH needed TLC. I started off by giving it a sharpening, and I had to do quite a bit of steel removal. It looks like it was sharpened really poorly on a freehand stone at a bad angle as the cutting edge was very oddly pitched and very dull. I gave it a 40 and 30 degree sharpening on my sharpmaker for the large and small blades, touched up the scissors, reformed the spring, and had to bend the tip of the small blade straight (not fun 
). The scales are really beat up but I waxed them to give them some gloss, then I cleaned it for a good half and hour to get rid of 95% of the grit in the action followed by an air-compressor session. I stole a nearly perfect sized keyring off of a novelty keychain for it, and then I finally lubed it up with some bike chain lubricant. It's good to go now except for a couple of water marks on the small blade which I'd like to emery off at some point. The blade also has a quarter-inch wide strip of very deep vertical scratches by the tang (maybe from a sharpening?) that are really unsightly but pose no threat to its functionality. The large blade also looks kind of scrawny from being oversharpened, but the price was right 
My first big SAK was an Explorer, and I always liked it until I ruined the blade. I found my new EDC!
). The scales are really beat up but I waxed them to give them some gloss, then I cleaned it for a good half and hour to get rid of 95% of the grit in the action followed by an air-compressor session. I stole a nearly perfect sized keyring off of a novelty keychain for it, and then I finally lubed it up with some bike chain lubricant. It's good to go now except for a couple of water marks on the small blade which I'd like to emery off at some point. The blade also has a quarter-inch wide strip of very deep vertical scratches by the tang (maybe from a sharpening?) that are really unsightly but pose no threat to its functionality. The large blade also looks kind of scrawny from being oversharpened, but the price was right My first big SAK was an Explorer, and I always liked it until I ruined the blade. I found my new EDC!
