The restoration begins

[Cobalt]

Just for a more old school topic, like the old days.
Cliffs sent me his knife over 2-3 years ago. It took me a week just to get the stench off it. Smelled like a water buffaloes rectum. It also cut me, and I was sure I was going to get some disease as the cut was deep and it was dirty. Luckily, nothing happened. This knife started out life as an LE grade blade, sans LE number and smooth bolts. So the skin on this blade was originally smooth. Like this:

Then cliff got it new in 1998 and spent the next 2 decades using it to reshape Newfoundland.
It spent years looking like this:

I have started to clean this blade up and try a mild resto on it. I have done a bit of work on it and it is looking like this now, and not done yet. That's the 3 foot view

Once cleaned up, sanded and sharpened it will be time to start using her again.

 

[The Zieg]

Just for a more old school topic, like the old days.
Cliffs sent me his knife over 2-3 years ago. It took me a week just to get the stench off it. Smelled like a water buffaloes rectum. It also cut me, and I was sure I was going to get some disease as the cut was deep and it was dirty. Luckily, nothing happened. This knife started out life as an LE grade blade, sans LE number and smooth bolts. So the skin on this blade was originally smooth. Like this:

Then cliff got it new in 1998 and spent the next 2 decades using it to reshape Newfoundland.
It spent years looking like this:

I have started to clean this blade up and try a mild resto on it. I have done a bit of work on it and it is looking like this now, and not done yet. That's the 3 foot view

Once cleaned up, sanded and sharpened it will be time to start using her again.

Good thing the bolts weren't smooth so you could completely strip it. Well done!

Zieg

 

[Cobalt]

Good thing the bolts weren't smooth so you could completely strip it. Well done!

Zieg

no kidding. It's fairly easy thing to do.

 

[Gravelface]

Nice! Those old Mistresses are the bees knees!
Those hand shaped tips/bellies were the best.

 

[Cobalt]

Nice! Those old Mistresses are the bees knees!
Those hand shaped tips/bellies were the best.

True. But there was a huge variation in profile. I have SHBM's as thick as 0.3" and as thin as 0.245. Blade profiles from flat to a slight convex. You could not make a sheath that fits all of them because Jerry ground most of them himself and it all depended on how much scotch he had had.

 

[Jerry Busse]

True. But there was a huge variation in profile. I have SHBM's as thick as 0.3" and as thin as 0.245. Blade profiles from flat to a slight convex. You could not make a sheath that fits all of them because Jerry ground most of them himself and it all depended on how much scotch he had had.

Finally!

Someone who understands the process!!!

Let's Drink!

Jerry

 

[David Brown]

True. But there was a huge variation in profile. I have SHBM's as thick as 0.3" and as thin as 0.245. Blade profiles from flat to a slight convex. You could not make a sheath that fits all of them because Jerry ground most of them himself and it all depended on how much scotch he had had.

word

 

[Gravelface]

Those Satin Battle Rats also had a lot of variation

I’m still waiting for Eric to send me his black handled one…..

 

[Cobalt]

Those Satin Battle Rats also had a lot of variation

I’m still waiting for Eric to send me his black handled one…..

Those were a hair under 1/4 inch I think. And weren't they all diff tempered?

 

[MacLaren1]

Nice thread, Cobalt
& helluva nice job cleanin her up!!

 

[Cobalt]

Nice thread, Cobalt
& helluva nice job cleanin her up!!

Thanks
Definitely a work in progress

 

[MacLaren1]

Thanks
Definitely a work in progress

Lookin great so far!

 

[zombieassassin]

That is a killer refurbish job Cobalt!

 

[Cobalt]

That is a killer refurbish job Cobalt!

Thanks. Gonna try to put a convex edge on it.

 

[beachmaster]

Just for a more old school topic, like the old days.
Cliffs sent me his knife over 2-3 years ago. It took me a week just to get the stench off it. Smelled like a water buffaloes rectum. It also cut me, and I was sure I was going to get some disease as the cut was deep and it was dirty. Luckily, nothing happened. This knife started out life as an LE grade blade, sans LE number and smooth bolts. So the skin on this blade was originally smooth. Like this:

Then cliff got it new in 1998 and spent the next 2 decades using it to reshape Newfoundland.
It spent years looking like this:

I have started to clean this blade up and try a mild resto on it. I have done a bit of work on it and it is looking like this now, and not done yet. That's the 3 foot view

Once cleaned up, sanded and sharpened it will be time to start using her again.

LEGEND

 

[Nismo17]

Very cool to see a special knife like that get restored.

 

[Cobalt]

I knew he was trying to dig his way to China

 

[Ironic]

Top of someone’s head?

 

[resinguy]

I miss Cliff.

Geometry cuts. Geometry cuts. Geometry cuts. What I tell you three times is true.

 

[Cobalt]

I miss Cliff.

Geometry cuts. Geometry cuts. Geometry cuts. What I tell you three times is true.

And to complement that saying, here he is regrinding an edge on this knife after 13 years of hard use and sharpening the original bevel, which caused the edge to get really thick.