A couple months ago I stopped by at the yard sale to look around and saw some knives that were for sale. In the same pile with Walmart-style knives I noticed an old Wusthof Trident knife. Apparently the owners were torturing their knives in a dishwasher so diamondwood scales were in a bad shape, but the blade itself looked pretty good. They were asking $0.50 for it so I decided to buy it and find out later is it worth restoring.
Here are a couple of before pictures.
Top view:
When I came home I tried to identify what I got. It was 8" slicing knife by Wusthof made in Solingen from X50CrMoV15 steel. The steel itself is not great but very stain resistant and Wusthof sells similar knives for $90.
When I removed the scales I was a bit surprised by the low quality alluminum rivets they use in their "hight end" line of knives. There was a lot of rust under the scales. I forgot to take a picture before I cleaned it all. I did not have a good piece of stabilized wood on my hands so my choice was between micarta and diamondwood. I have chosen diamondwood for this project and decided to use 303SS Corby bolts I got from Tracy. I thought if 3 aluminum bolts held the scales then 2 stainless bolts should be enough. The funny thing was that priced at $2.28, each bolt costs over 4 times more than I paid for the blade
but they worth it. Here is a picture of the blade without scales and the materials:
I did my best to make a bolster side facing the scales even on both sides. Here is the result:
On the last picture there also 2 of my paring knives I recently finished (flat grind 1/16" ATS-34, stabilized padauk, 416ss pins). I do not have my maker's mark yet so they are unmarked.
The slicer and one of the paring knives went to my mother and another paring knife to my mother in law for some real life kitchen testing. These are the first knives I am showing here, so comments and suggestions are welcome.
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Sergiy
Here are a couple of before pictures.
Top view:
When I came home I tried to identify what I got. It was 8" slicing knife by Wusthof made in Solingen from X50CrMoV15 steel. The steel itself is not great but very stain resistant and Wusthof sells similar knives for $90.
When I removed the scales I was a bit surprised by the low quality alluminum rivets they use in their "hight end" line of knives. There was a lot of rust under the scales. I forgot to take a picture before I cleaned it all. I did not have a good piece of stabilized wood on my hands so my choice was between micarta and diamondwood. I have chosen diamondwood for this project and decided to use 303SS Corby bolts I got from Tracy. I thought if 3 aluminum bolts held the scales then 2 stainless bolts should be enough. The funny thing was that priced at $2.28, each bolt costs over 4 times more than I paid for the blade
but they worth it. Here is a picture of the blade without scales and the materials:
I did my best to make a bolster side facing the scales even on both sides. Here is the result:
On the last picture there also 2 of my paring knives I recently finished (flat grind 1/16" ATS-34, stabilized padauk, 416ss pins). I do not have my maker's mark yet so they are unmarked.
The slicer and one of the paring knives went to my mother and another paring knife to my mother in law for some real life kitchen testing. These are the first knives I am showing here, so comments and suggestions are welcome.
--
Sergiy
