Restoring a knife
I gave my first knife I ever made (you can read my hole story at "My Story") to a friend as birthday present. One year later, I decided to restore this knife as another birthday gift. With this, I was able to bring in my accumulated experience skills to make it way better than it had been.
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How it looked like before restoring:
I first took off the handle scales:
Then I surface-ground the knife and polished the bevels with my Scotch-Brite belt:
I glued on the new handle scales:
And sanded the raw form of the handle on my belt grinder:
And after a while of hand sanding:
The knife was finished:
Now, to the knife sheath:
I cut the leather into the custom designed shape:
I dyed the inside and outside of the sheath:
I glued the sides together and stitched it tight with a saddlers stitch:
And punched the holes for stitching:
Then I glued up and riveted the belt loop:
After sanding and sealing up the edge, the sheath was finished:
The finished knife and sheath:
