All About Pocket Knives

Reverand wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 10:24 pm Herb, ya did great!
I have two of these waiting for me to repair them. I had been concerned about getting the correct length saw blade. I did not think about getting a longer blade and cutting it the correct length!

I also went back to Goldpan's mod and saw his approach. One of mine has broken handles, so I may try rehandling it after seeing that project.

You gentlemen are inspiring!

eveled wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2019 2:04 am Just as an FYI. I found that Beretta made a magazine pouch for their model 92fs pistol. The pouch is black leather and is made like a Buck 110 sheath. Anyway it fits the survival knife like it was made for it. Incase anyone wants to edc the Giant Jack.

Ridgegrass wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:17 am Helluva job Herb! By the way, next year's first show at the Winery is set for April 30th. Should be good weather and we're going to start early recruiting and publicizing. J.O'.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:42 am

Ridgegrass wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:17 am Helluva job Herb! By the way, next year's first show at the Winery is set for April 30th. Should be good weather and we're going to start early recruiting and publicizing. J.O'.

I hope to make it next year, along with Shenandoah and Mason/Dixon.

Ridgegrass wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:17 am Helluva job Herb! By the way, next year's first show at the Winery is set for April 30th. Should be good weather and we're going to start early recruiting and publicizing. J.O'.

herbva wrote: ↑Thu Dec 09, 2021 3:44 pm

Ridgegrass wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:17 am Helluva job Herb! By the way, next year's first show at the Winery is set for April 30th. Should be good weather and we're going to start early recruiting and publicizing. J.O'.

Thanks J.O. ! By the way, I took my wife back to the winery the next day and we had a great time outside. The brisket sandwiches from their food truck are terrific! Redrider is coming to the next one.

herbva wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:18 pm It seems like at least half of these pilot's survival knives that I see have a broken saw blade. Other than the saw, these are among the sturdiest, heaviest, folding knives that I have ever worked on and are truly "built like a tank". So I've never been able to understand why they put such a thin, fragile saw blade in them. Anyway, I'm sure that I'm not the first person who has contemplated replacing a broken saw blade in one of these. I think I may have even seen a post about doing this some time ago, but I haven't been able to find it. I've had a nicer one of these knives with a broken saw sitting in my collection for a long time and I've been itching to give it a try for quite a while. But, I was concerned about possibly messing up a WW2 artifact, so I bought a cheap, heavily used "beater" to work on as an experiment, and here it is. I went with a thicker, stronger saw blade as an improvement, but when I get around to replacing the saw on my good one, I've got an old keyhole saw with a nicely rusted, thinner blade in mind for a blade donor.

Sorry, as I frequently do, I forgot to take a picture before I got started, so the first picture is with the patient already disassembled and I had already removed the tang spacers from the broken saw blade. I found a 3-pack of Rigid D-692 keyhole saw blades that looked about right on the bay for $16 plus shipping. They are actually a bit thicker than I wanted, so I had to shave down the tang of the new blade before I transplanted the spacers from the old saw blade. Before I reassembled everything, I gave both blades an overnight "magic patina" treatment with white vinegar. The steel pivot pins in these things are massive (about .148" or close to 5/32). So I drilled out the center of the old pins as much as I could (I wound up eventually using a 7/64 bit) and then was able to cut the pins in the normal way. For replacement pivot pins I used 10d steel nails, that turned out to be perfect, and 8d for the rocker pin, which was also perfect.

I wish that I could find suitable black composite material to use to replace the black composite handle scales, which you can see have shrunk on the ends. (Maybe I'll just fill in the gaps until I find the right material.) Now that I'm looking at the pictures, maybe I'll darken up the blades a bit more. This was a fun project.