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Knife Repair, Modification, Restoration & Improvement

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This group is hosted by D ale, for knife enthusiasts who are interested in repairing, modifiying, restoring or improving knives, including fixed blades, folders and automatics of all types.

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KnifeMaker

1972 Case repair

Started by Andy Larrison Jan 21. 0 Replies 0 Likes

This piece belonged to a friends Grandpa. The main back spring was completely rounded off and there was no action left to it. Both blades had been loved on quite a bit.I had the main blade tang tig welded and reshaped, lightly cleaned both blades…Continue

The first of the ulu refurbishes

Started by Kevin D. Last reply by Jan Carter Jan 15. 12 Replies 3 Likes

I recently was able acquire a small lot of ulu knives that all needed to be cleaned, restored, or refurbished.Here is a before photo of one that was missing a handle.…Continue

USN MK2

Started by Kevin D. Last reply by Kevin D Jan 14. 12 Replies 3 Likes

Good Evening!I just acquired a USN MK2 knife a couple of days ago. The grip's leather discs were horribly dehydrated, and the guard was a bit bent; but for the most part, it was in pretty good shape. It really needed some cleaning and just a touch…Continue

Another ulu - cleaning/restoration

Started by Kevin D. Last reply by Kevin D Jan 10. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Another ulu from the small lot of them I was able to purchase recently.This one only needed a thorough cleaning and some careful restoration.Before pics:…Continue

KnifeMaker

Case Three Blade Trapper Modification

Started by Andy Larrison Nov 19, 2024. 0 Replies 0 Likes

This Case trapper started out as a 2 bladed purple barnboard jigged bone knife. Had a fella aske me to make it a 3 blade and add some filework to it. I used a spey blade from a donor trapper and modified it into a wharncliffe blade for the 3rd…Continue

An old Rapala (Marttiini) fillet knife

Started by Kevin D Sep 21, 2024. 0 Replies 2 Likes

I found this old fillet knife literally in pieces.The blade was bent. The tang was warped. The handle was too small (in my opinion). And the mechanical connection of the tang behind the handle was destroyed. The edge being useless was an obvious…Continue

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Comment by Terry Waldele on May 1, 2010 at 3:06: J.J.,
I agree with you that an EDC does not necessarily have to be pretty. After all, it's going to get a little beat up if you use it much, anyway. On the other side of the coin, though, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", and IMHO style counts big time. To me, the EDC's finish, rough or not, is not nearly as important as its overall style/lines. Maybe I'm too much of a traditionalist, though.

Comment by J.J. Smith III on May 1, 2010 at 0:21: Terry,
Not a tactical person, myself, but I can say that the spidy hole is right ugly, but that;s Spiderco. IMHO.
However, a mod to an EDC does not necessarily have to be pretty, as long as it works. Some of my wharnie mods are a mite rough looking, but they do the job that I intended them to do.

Comment by Terry Waldele on April 30, 2010 at 23:28: Jake, really? You don't think the zip tie is an improvement? ;-) Maybe you have to be someone like me who is royally turned off by the Spidey hole blade opener. Actually, I once converted the main blade of a slip joint folder with a nail nick to a Spidey hole type opener. by grinding the nail nick all the way through the blade into an oval-shaped hole. It didn't work. Maybe the hole wasn't big enough. Anyway, I ended up putting a thumb stud at one end of the oval hole, and that worked fine. NOT PRETTY, BUT VERY FUNCTIONAL. ;-) (I couldn't resist. My bad.)

Comment by Jake on April 30, 2010 at 13:34: Good video, personally I just could put a zip tie o a knife it just throws the good looks for me.

Comment by Terry Waldele on April 30, 2010 at 5:16: My message to members about modifying a Spyderco knife opener failed again. Here's what I was trying to send:
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Comment by Terry Waldele on April 24, 2010 at 1:17: Dale, thanks for providing me some sources of knife handle pins. I'll check them out.

In Memoriam Comment by D ale on April 23, 2010 at 23:39: Terry .. you might try some of the industrial supply houses .. like Grainger\MSC\McMaster Carr ..

.. didn't see any NiAg on McMaster Carr .. found some brass pin stock though .. metric & std .. http://www.mcmaster.com/#brass-round-stock/=6sloj4

Comment by Terry Waldele on April 19, 2010 at 1:35: Thanks, Daniel, for the tip about using a metal lathe to turn the pins to the proper size. I'll look into it ASAP.

P.S. Welcome to our group!

Comment by Daniel Howland on April 18, 2010 at 6:54: Greetings folks, Thank you Terry and Dale for making me aware of this new group. I was reading about your pinning problems Terry, If you own or know someone who owns a metal lathe you could turn the pins to any size you need. I have had the same issues when repinning balasongs, you never know what size pin your going to see.

Comment by Terry Waldele on April 12, 2010 at 20:38: I finished restoring the multi-blade knife made in Europe (don't know which country, but it is stamped "C/H" with the letters superimposed like an old cow brand. I used an acrylic pen blank to make the handle slabs, because pen blank "bricks" cost about one-third as much as celluloid. The restored knife is beautiful, but the blades don't have as much snap as before because the new pins aren't perfectly matched to the holes in the blades and springs. I'll probably never restore another metric-sized pinned knife again. Oh well, live and learn!