Kinfolks USA

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Kinfolks USA

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9 3/8” long junk store find. Woodcraft style. Fair old knife. 390 5 Though about oiling the handle. Maybe cleaning the blade some. I’m not a straight knife guy. I have owned some Marbles and older Westerns. Harold
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I have heard that oil on a stacked leather handle can soften and swell it to no good end result.
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tongueriver wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 10:20 pm I have heard that oil on a stacked leather handle can soften and swell it to no good end result.
Thanks for the information, I don’t want to goof it up.
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Is there a good product on the market to restore leather handle disks? ::shrug::
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I have used a wax type boot waterproofing with more success than oil on the leather handles. Your sheath is not original to the knife, it is a Western sheath. Not really a woodcraft style, the Kinfolks equivalent to a woodcraft is the K 380 model.
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Harold try bee's wax ,has always worked for me with stacked leather.
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Thanks guys for your comments. Harold
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