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Yes! Another knife restoration. I love making this kind of projects!
This rusty old knife came from a recent visit to my town sunday flea market, needless to say I paid pretty much nothing for this. I guess it's no surprise, not many would buy something in this condition right?! But I knew it had potential. Under rust, dust and bad welds the steel is nice and hard! (between 50 and 55 Rhc) We can even see a hint of a makers mark, unfortunatly incomplete, so I am not able to discover when and where it was made and for what specific use. Still cool!
For the handle I used: stainless steel, ebony wood, white felt liners, stabilized cork and stabilized curly maple (I think it's maple, not sure).

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Here are some of the videos where I go in more details about tecniques and tools used in this video:
Stabilizing wood: https://youtu.be/E-P3KWctkk0
Vacuum pump and chamber used to stabilize: https://youtu.be/BeiW_37rS-U
Felt liners: https://youtu.be/8tIaEAXYv-k
Stabilized cork: https://youtu.be/PZnjt6Vr62w
My lovely drill press: https://youtu.be/BZmqVw7MJsg
My lovely buffer: https://youtu.be/8V9f0DIkb90

Ind ex of operation and materials:
0:30 Weak welds, easy to break loose
0:54 Electrolysis: water and sodium carbonate solution, parts connected to negative side and steel sacrificial anodes to positive sice of a DC power supply (car battery charger). 2-3 hrs at 5amp.
1:17 Remove patina with steel wire brush in water
3:16 Cut off disk on angle grinder to remove ugly welded tang extension
5:05 Remove rust and patina with steel wire wheel on bench grinder
5:17 Fill old pin holes with stick weld
6:12 Transfer design with paper template, small magnets and random spray paint
6:31 Re-shape on 2x72 belt grinder, edge kept cool with water bucket
7:18 Round cornes with die grinder and stone bits
7:40 Grind new bevels on 2x72 belt grinder, edge kept cool with water bucket
8:00 Hand sand to 600grit sandpaper
8:20 Etch in ferric chloride
8:30 Satin finish with fine steel whool
9:06 Notch onthe tang for glue to grab later on
9:50 Cut materials for handle stack
10:16 Grind faces flat
10:46 Glueing the handle stack with 5 min epoxy resin
11:19 Grind square
11:38 Drill tang hole, 10mm in diameter
12:17 Mark and center puch guard holes
12:40 Drilling with 3 mm bit
13:06 Grinding back side with dremel to save some file work
13:38 Filing to size
14:05 Tang dowel took to the exact diameter by spinning on a plate with hole drilled with same bit as the tang hole
14:20 Splitting the dowel
14:32 Enlarge the slot to match the tang thickness on slack of 2x72 belt grinder
15:00 Final glue up with slow setting epoxy glue
16:00 Squeezout cleaned with nitro solvent
16:18 Grinding handle to shape on 2x72 belt grinder
17:00 Hand sanding up to 600 grit
17:34 Boiled linseed oil as finish
17:54 Sharpen with MadEdge sharpener
18:23 Strop on leather with fine polishing coumpound


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