WIP - Peanut reborn, got it finally back

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Humppa

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Hi guys and gals!

Long story short.... I was processing firewood for my parents some weeks ago. And carried my yellow Peanut. Since that day I couldn´t find it again. Yesterday my dad came over and told me he found a knife in all the wood chips and stuff. "This must have been yours", he said. He gave me that small knife. And it was the Peanut, that layed for weeks in wet wood chips, outside in the misty january weather of Bavaria.

So I began cleaning it up today and thought I gonna share the process. Here we are:

The knife I got back from Dad







Looks bad,doesn´t it? I used some metal polish my wife uses for kitchen surfaces. It containes aluminium. I added it to the blades and let it on there for about quarter an hour.





I had to clean it up with some sandpaper as well. The metal polish didn´t remove it all. The red stuff was only off while some of the patina was still on there. I used several grits of sandpaper on the blades, bolsters and inside the liners.



The metal polish usually removes the edge, so I had to resharpen it again. As well as polishing the bolsters and some steel wool procedure on the Delrin handles.



Here we are after sme polishing - and oiling, removing metal dust ... ;)



Some of the different spots seemed to be "eaten" into the blade and won´t propably never be able to get repaired, but I´m glad having this little fella back again ;)
The whole work was done in about one hour, and was definitelly worth the time and materials :D

Comments are welcome, as usual.

Frank & Gary: If you Mods think it should be moved over to the Mainentance Forum; feel free to move it there. I thought it is ok here for the traditional knife content. :)
 
Glad you found it back Andi and nice job on the cleaning :thumbup:
Sieht jetzt schön alt aus ;)
Maybe for the better it was your yellow 'Nut.
Your Dad might have never found it if it had been your chestnut one burried in all those brouwnish wood chips.
 
nice work,ill be going to work for a few weeks myself in Frankfurt some time in the future, is it possible to buy quality traditional knives in Germany at the moment or is it mostly online? just figured I would ask a local:)
 
Nice to see you were reunited with the little yella fella! Good job on the restoration too. Now your peanut has a bit more character then it did a couple of weeks ago!

Peter
 
It's nice your dad found that for you, Andi. Excellent job on the clean up! She'll give plenty of years of good use.
 
Good for you, Andi! Time rescuing a peanut is never wasted. You did a good thing, and The Cult is grateful. :thumbup:

Carl, Grand High Muckba Of The Cult.
 
Thats great Andi that, number one your Dad found it---thank goodness for the "Yeller Delrin"!!! and the fact you loving brought back to working order :thumbup:

It's true what was mentioned above---shes got a lil more character now :D

Thanks for the post...

Paul
 
Thanks for showing how you did this. I imagine something like this will happen to me someday. Now I have an idea how to deal with it.

I don't know what it looked like before, but it has wonderful character now.
 
Was it one of the CV (chrome vanadium) models? I would not have expected to see any rust on one of the stainless steel versions.
 
Thanks for your replies, fellows :)

@ spydutch: Danke für den netten Kommentar - Es sieht jetzt wirklich älter aus, als es tatsächlich ist :D

Well, it was one of the CV Peanuts. I really like this steel but as it is on carbon steel - it will rust without a doubt.

It has much more character on it right now, much more than it had before. I just came back to a local restaurant with great bavarian food - FYI I had Sauerbraten ;) - it won´t leave my rotation for that long :D
 
So glad to hear you have your Peanut back! Now it's got some character to always remind you of this event. :)
 
More evidence that Yellow is visible and durable.:thumbup: Wood or bone handles might have fared poorly in that damp milieu

Very lucky find (wish I could find my stag Chambriard that's gone MIA since September...) won't be in my wood-shed or if it were it would long been carried off by rodents or reptiles...:barf:

Good job on the clean-up, that rust looked vile at first. You might like to try fine emery paper on it to get the pitting off, even those green scouring pads used in the kitchen can be useful in such a case.

Thanks, Will
 
Phweeew!
Man that rust was taking hold.
Pinewood chips I'm guessing?
Quite acidic.
When something lost returns to you -Das ist viel Gluck.
 
Pretty cool that your dad found your lost peanut for you Andi! I kind of like the new look, and it won't hurt that knife a bit, the pits won't ever affect the edge ;) nice clean up:thumbup:
 
Good morning everyone :)=

willgoy said:
More evidence that Yellow is visible and durable.:thumbup: Wood or bone handles might have fared poorly in that damp milieu

Very lucky find (wish I could find my stag Chambriard that's gone MIA since September...) won't be in my wood-shed or if it were it would long been carried off by rodents or reptiles...:barf:

Good job on the clean-up, that rust looked vile at first. You might like to try fine emery paper on it to get the pitting off, even those green scouring pads used in the kitchen can be useful in such a case.

Thanks, Will
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100 % agreed - if it would not have been yellow it would propably still be in that bunch of wood chips, little branchets etc.
That stag Chambriard would be a loss that would make me crazy somehow. It´s such a wonderful knife.

I gonna give that small green scourcing pads a try, thanks for the advice, maybe I can remove the pitting completelly.

meako said:
Phweeew!
Man that rust was taking hold.
Pinewood chips I'm guessing?
Quite acidic.
When something lost returns to you -Das ist viel Gluck.
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Yeah, it was a mixture of pinewood, beech and birch as well as oak and ash. But mostly it was pine wood. The rust was pretty tough, but I was surprised how nicely it was to remove with that metal polish. :)
It was actually luck, that it returned to me... :D


sitflyer said:
Pretty cool that your dad found your lost peanut for you Andi! I kind of like the new look, and it won't hurt that knife a bit, the pits won't ever affect the edge ;) nice clean up:thumbup:
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At beginning of the process there was some pitting on the edge, but just on the edge - so I used a coarse stone to remove the material for a good, clean edge. Worked pretty well, I think.
 
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