Who needs ebay when you've got yardsales and flea markets? Last weekend I stopped at an estate sale, asked if they had any knives and the old guy replied "yeah, I think I got one over here in this tool box" he pulled it out and squinted at the tang "schrade and walden, purty rusty" He handed it, to me and I looked it over "what'd ya have to have for that?" He cocked his head sideways and said"awww, how 'bout a buck?" Needless to say I left with it. It needed some help, the pivot pin was shot, everything on it that was steel was pitted and the handles were caked in calcium deposits which I could have cleaned off, but I was gonna keep it anyway so I replaced them. The bone I used to replace them I found while canoeing down the local river, it was washed up on the bank in a pile of drift wood ,looked like a horse or cow legbone.
as it was from the yard sale:
water had layed on the blades for a while
Some sanding to show just how deep they were (the blade had been tipped and reshaped, I trued up the repair to make it presentable)
everything cleaned and ready to be reassembled
the leg bone after I had cut on it a bit
I ended up measuring wrong and cut each handle too short
so I improvised and did some brass spacers, worked like a charm
finished product
I love projects like this
