All About Pocket Knives

If you mean the side(s) of the horn are not flush- they can be filed down, sanded, and polished. Your problem will be to keep from abrading the liner and backspring. After sanding to 400-600 grit, horn can be buffed with 0000 steel wool and then polished on a buffing wheel with white or green compou...

Stag or horn?
Both can be polished, but working them is different.

Made for a French retailer.

This knife is a later transitional type. They use a wire spring for the button. It's fitted alongside the mechanism.

Much better quality. Good enough that, for years we thought they were Italian.

Real pearl doesn't have bubbles in it.
Hot pins damage materials. It's a bad way to check stuff. Just ask.

The handle is acrylic, not pearl.

It CAN be fixed-it will just be expensive.

It's not really a good name for them, but yes.

The loose construction allows the horn to warp.
There is no economically viable repair. A return is in order.

Late 1960s.

It's not just the horn.
Off-spec parts and poor assembly cause most of this.

Your knife is Japanese. The folding guards are missing.
That model is a neat knife and it's well made.

The Eig knives were imported until 1958.

"Back spring"=the spring on the back of the knife. It's not supposed to stick up like that.

I do repairs like that, but am not accepting work for a month, at least.

It's the same knife as the Japanese bullfighter knives sold in Mexico-except with bone handles.

This type knife was not made in Japan before the late 1950s, so it wasn't Gramps'.
The backspring is bent.

Electrolysis can also damage surfaces. If used at all, it should be used very carefully. I prefer chemical rust removal and careful abrasion.

I only filled the tooth to see if I could, not to save money.
I superglue cuts. Stitches are old fashioned.

I did fill my own tooth once. I had a lower filling come out. There was no decay, the filling just came out and the hole had no exposed nerve. I had silver dental amalgam. I called a friend who was a dentist. His first question was, "How are you going to mix the amalgam without a treacherator? ...

Have fun!

It's not a real bayonet.
Chinese fantasy knife.

Latama didn't make anything. They were basically an importer.
Latama supposedly assisted in having the Ethan knives made in Italy.

First, it's doubtful you can make the knife look new.
Second, you don't have to remove the blade pivot pins to replace the backspring. Just the center pin.

Tonto's knife was made by Massaro in Maniago, Italy.

JW's knife was made by Falcon (Campolin) in Maniago for Klaas,