A few exciting new projects

[orvet]

Going to a knife show and meeting old friends is great fun. Buying and selling knives is also great but to me the most fun I have a knife show is buying old battered and broken knives that have the potential to be rebuilt and refurbished.

I know there are not many people even on AAPK that would appreciate these like I do, but the few of you that do appreciate them hang out in the Knife Repair & Restoration forum!

Here are some gems I picked up at the OKCA show last weekend to be completed at some future date.

The knife that excites me the most is this A.W. Wadsworth & Son fish knife.
It has a full sabre ground blade and beautiful shell bolsters. The only thing wrong with it was the off gassing celluloid.

I think it will be a fun restoration!

Here are a couple more from Germany.

The bartender's knife is stamped FK DE BARY/& Co and MADE IN GERMANY on the rear.
The bone handled mid lock is stamped J DIRLAM & SONS/SOLINGEN GERMANY (1910-1930, per John Goins)

I am sure looking forward to restoring them!

[cato]

nice. that wadsworth is sweet

[orvet]

Thanks cato, I thought so too.

Here are some other project knives I got at the show:

The upper left is a KEEN BLADE.
The stag equal end is stamped VEDERASCO.
The camp knife is a STANDARD KNIFE CO. and the bottom right is a WARDS.
Of course the upper right Cub Scout knife is a Camillus.

Does anyone know anything about the VEDERASCO? It isn't in Goins.

[wlf]

Dale,
I think I have a Dirlam,pretty sure it has a very similar or the same bolster,but it's wood handled My books and knives are not available to me now

[royal0014]

Some nice fixer-uppers there Dale.
Never heard or seen VEDERASCO but I like the looks of it
I'll be interested to what you do with it.

[muskrat man]

that fish knife is sweet, nice bolsters on that one.

[btrwtr]

Yep, That Wadsworth is one cool tool!

[glennbad]

I really like those first 3. The Wadsworth, what great bolsters!

And that bartenders knife, I love the lines on it, and how the NS runs up to the corkscrew, should be a great mod!

[MrBlister]

dale .. . . thats cool !!

[FRJ]

Nice stuff, Dale.
That Derlam looks like it has real possibilities.