Old Fish Knife Restoration - Complete Restoration

Today I am restoring this old fish knife. Knife itself is in terrible condition and I had a couple of surprises during recording of this old fish knife restoration. The knife’s shape indicates that this could be an old fisher's knife. I was not able to read any markings on the blade, but after removing the layer of rust I found a weasel stamp and some leathers. Unfortunately I could not read the letters clearly.

I tried to find out more about this old fish knife, but with no luck. It can be that this knife was produced in small quantities or it was just for locals. It would be nice to know more about knife’s history or for what was used for in the past.

I kicked of this old fish knife restoration with disassembling the knife and start grinding the surface rust with my hand cranked grinder. The first surprise was when I discovered that the metal edges on the handle were hollow. They were filled with rust and dirt.

I removed all dirt and rust from this fish knife and start sanding all parts, including the deer’s horn handle. That would be second surprise with this restoration. Sanding the deer’s horn produced awful smell. I could compare it with a smell when you go to the dentist and he is drilling / grinding your tooth. Ohhhh, terrible…

Because of big dents on metal edges on the handle I had to paint them. I first spray them with a primer and afterwards with a black paint. They came out alright. And the last step in this old fish knife restoration was to polish the knife’s blade. As usually I used mine hand cranked grinder with polishing wheel.

Then I started the assembling of this fish knife. I choose to glue it, in this way I will prevent the dirt to coming in in the handle cavities. After drying I cleaned the knife from glue, sharpened it and testet out with an onion. And as a last thing I compared fish knife before restoration and after the restoration.
You might be interested to see my other hand restored knives:
➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp8CK9_PA1w&list=PLBy2o9FjgnJWXdJdAhRutyV_OjMpi0Jih
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Timestamps:
00:00 Showing the old fish knife after and before restoration
01:18 Started disassembling the old fish knife
04:35 Removing rust from knife’s blade with hand cranked grinder
07:03 Sanding old fish knife’s blade by hand with 80, 120, 240, 400 and 1000 grit
06:03 Came back to knife’s wooden handle, started sanding by hand with 120 and 240 grit
08:15 Start sanding and repairing deer horn handles
09:06 Mixing glue and dust from deer’s horn
09:31 Start painting the handle’s metal parts
09:49 Start polishing fish knife’s blade
10:20 Gluing the handle back on the knife’s blade
10:55 Showing the old fish knife before restoration
11:01 Showing the old fish knife after restoration
11:11 Testing out a restored fish knife

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