Hey Jim! Knife restoration ?'s

[xjchad]

I have a few of my Grandfather's old knives I'd like to restore.
A couple folders and a couple fixed blades with leather disc handles.
Any tips or resources?
Thanks!

[spideyjg]

Put up some pics. Trouble with old potentiality collectible stuff is any alteration destroys the value. Dumb as a bag of hammers but see it in instruments, guns, knives and probably though all collectibles.

Take the rust, aka steel cancer, off a knife, value plummets, sharpen it value plummets. Take a guitar that cant stay in tune because the tuner is bad NOOOOOOOOOO it ruins the value.

Here are leather handle spacers from Jantz

https://knifemaking.com/products/kt200-leather-handle-spacers?_pos=1&_sid=43ddffcd2&_ss=r

[xjchad]

Thanks Jim!
I ended up just going over it with some wet sandpaper and oil and cleaned it up as best I could.
Still need to put an edge on it, but I'm happy with how it turned out.

Before:






After:

[spideyjg]

Sweet! Now keep that steel cancer from getting a grip again. Lots of pits up near the tip. Leather sheaths really aren't a good storage location. Take it out for storage, use it for carrying.