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Alright, I might have gone a bit too far with the handle to call it a restoration, as always! But I had a lof of fun! And it's always a nice challenge to work with some limitation like pin holes and experiment with new materials composition. I'm loving this thin cork layer, actually thinking about making an handle only with that! And yes, I have left the spine rough, I know many of you don't like that but I do, I want to keep something that resembles the original texture and I definetly wanated to leave the makers mark "P". Knife is 280mm overall with 150mm blade, 54mm wide and just over 2mm thick. Dark wood is Wengè and light wood is teak.

Here are some of the videos where I go in more details about some of the tecniques used in this video:
Stabilizing wood: https://youtu.be/E-P3KWctkk0
Homemade Liners: https://youtu.be/8tIaEAXYv-k
And here are some of the videos about the tools I used:
Hardening oven: https://youtu.be/5MNwqwmrWgQ
Tempering oven: https://youtu.be/uILynSeLuzU
Vacuum pump and chamber used to stabilize: https://youtu.be/BeiW_37rS-U
My lovely drill press: https://youtu.be/BZmqVw7MJsg

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Index of operation and materials:
0:22 Cut off scales with metal cutting bandsaw
0:35 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.
1:07 Remove patina with steel wire brush in water
1:20 Re-shape on 2x72 belt grinder, edge kept cool with water bucket
3:30 Hand sand to 2000grit sandpaper
3:40 Etch in ferric chloride
4:10 Making back felt and cork liners, dedicated video linked above
5:40 Stabilize wood, dedicated video linked above
7:30 Glue handle stack with 5 min epoxy resin
8:00 Glue liners with 5min epoxy
8:40 Mark and center puch pin holes
9:00 Drill with 2 and 6mm bit
9:30 Match drilling pin holes to scales, held up with ca glue and masking tape
10:40 Finish the top side of the scales before final glue up
11:30 Making mosaic pins with brass tubing, copper wire and black epoxy resin
13:00 Final glue up with slow setting epoxy resin
14:00 Squeezout cleaned with nitro solvent
14:18 Grind handle to shape on 2x72 belt grinder
15:05 Hand sand up to 800 grit
15:50 White mineral oil as finish
16:04 Sharpen with MadEdge sharpener https://www.madedge.net/shop
16:33 Strop on leather with fine polishing coumpound

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