One of my favorite knives for restoration

muskrat man · Post by **muskrat man** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:27 am

I just loooove stacked leather handle knives. I came across this one at a flea market (it's that time of the year again!) this morning for $5. It's marked "premier lifetime" and on the opposite side is marked "H20 sheffield england". The leather washers were rough, but not really dented or scratched up, just swollen unevenly. The blade had been sharpened on a grinder and was pretty screwed up, luckily it was saber ground and I had plenty to work with. I like a flat grind for a working knife anyway, so flat gridning this blade would remove all the nasties and make for a thin cutting edge. I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story, she's fit for the field now. (that's the reflection of the texture in my light box on the blade just so ya know

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The crazy guy with the grinder messed the tang up and knocked the grindlines all out of whack so I had to true those up as best I could.

Diligence · Post by **Diligence** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:38 am

looks great...how are you enjoying your 4x36?

muskrat man · Post by **muskrat man** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:54 am

It's dandy, makes fitting handles alot simpler

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:33 pm

Looks good Kaleb.

I bought a stacked leather handled Schrade Walden 138L about a year ago. The leather was dried & shrunken. I put it in a zip-lock bag with a bunch of Neatsfoot oil and it is back to normal after a year of soaking.

Dale

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:11 pm

MM do you want to make some of my fixed blades look good like yours ??

muskrat man · Post by **muskrat man** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:12 am

bring'em on Ken, send some pics and I'll be able to come up with an estimate

Ulster · Post by **Ulster** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:10 pm

MM:
I have three stacked leather handle knives, two of which need some work on the handles. How do you smooth them out as you did?
Thanks

Sauconian · Post by **Sauconian** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:39 pm

Hey Ulster ! Another new recruit.

Fran

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:01 am

Welcome aboard Ulster.
Please tell me how you came up with Ulster as your name?
I am fond of Ulster knives and have a number of them in my collection.

Stick around and join the fun!
Dale

Ulster · Post by **Ulster** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:37 am

HI:
re: Ulster
I am from Ulster County NY, about 3 miles from the Schrade Factory, (both of them, the old and the new, now closed one. )
I have a small collection, mostly Schrade, Imperials, a few Bucks, a couple of Ulsters, couple of older Coleman/Western, a Kent, and some other imported knives bought simply because I like the way they look. EDC is a small two blade Imperial in the pocket, (it is sort of a barlow type, but has bolsters on both ends) and a Buck 110 on the belt. I would carry a fixed blade, as I like them better, but my job won't allow it.
Anyway, that is how I came up with the name. I no longer live there, have not for about 25 years.

Nice to meet ya'll, thanks for the nice welcome.

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:03 pm

Welcome again Ulster!

If you go into the Knife Lore Forum here at AAPK you will find that most of the forum is about knives & the companies from the Hudson River Valley. Rich Langston (lt632ret) lives there, in Wallkill I believe, and is working on a new knife museum up there. Rich is a writer (of knife articles & books) and has been collecting knives from the area for 50 years. We have several other members from that area. I sort of envy them all the knife history they have in the area.

If you have a scanner or digital camera you can post pics of your knives.
Stick around and you will learn a lot of cool stuff. I learn new stuff daily here.

Dale

muskrat man · Post by **muskrat man** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 2:34 am

welcome Ulster, I use progressivly finer grades of polishing until I get it to the pont to where I need to polish it with leather.

Ulster · Post by **Ulster** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:36 am

MM:
Thanks, I will give it a try. They are not in real bad shape, just need a little TLC.