I may have to finally put my fishing gear away for the year. The lake hasn't frozen yet but the temps outside are pretty chilly.
Started out by clearing a spot in the basement and putting a new workbench together (cant work in the garage, its too cold and I'm too old!):
Still got a little organizing to do yet but its functional and serves its purpose.
I started looking through my box of knife purchases from last year and found two nice Camco 551 Barlow knives that needed some cleanup. Both had decent blades and good snap. Decided to re-handle the one with Royal Blue American Standard jigged bone handles and the other one with smooth amber colored handles.
The first candidate had some pretty deep grinder marks in the small blade as you can see in these photos:
Disassembled and looking pretty grungy:
Parts with some preliminary cleaning done;
The finished knife;
I re-polished the handles after these photos were taken with some pink no-scratch compound and it really brought the shine to the forefront. I left the pivot pin slightly protruding (its a personal preference thing, I know they're supposed to be ground down flush). This one will be headed to E-Bay.
Candidate No. 2 is still in process. Disassembled and looking pretty tired;
After preliminary cleaning and a shot of the amber bone handles that will go on this knife;
I don't do a lot of work with smooth bone but I like the look of this particular color. It should make for a really nice looking EDC. I'll post the completed knife pics when I get it done.
Jeff
