File Knife Refurb

My next door neighbors are pretty cool, the middle son (oldest in the house - I think 19-20) has done me a few favors since we moved in last August. He's plowed my (long and very steep) driveway a whole bunch of times (without me asking) as well as mowed my (2 acre) lawn when it looked like it needed mowing. He's just one of those work hard kind of guys that you don't see much of today. So when he showed me this knife of his (that he had bought about 6 yrs ago at an outdoors show) that's been made from a file - all rusty and one scale missing I knew I had the opportunity to repay his kindness.

The knife appears to have been made by someone who knew how to grind but not how to use pins in handles - LOL. I removed the remaining scale and set out to flatten the tang by removing the teeth (that sat under the scales) but this didn't work out so well for me and I converted it to a hidden tang.

I used a block of this crazy two toned amboyna burl that I scored a batch of to fashion the new handle from. This particular block was a little short for use on a full size kitchen knife and had a live end on it which I decided to leave. The original handle was pretty straight where I went with a curve and then blended into the finger notch.

On the blade I removed what rust I could from the file teeth and then blued then over. I then smoothed over the teeth to make them less grabby. The bevels were then re-ground. I still have to put an edge on it (which will bring the tip to pointy-ness but otherwise it's done.

Oh, and the lucky bastid has a sheath (from another knife) that fits this knife like it was made for it.

Just thought I'd share with you folks.....

 

Great stuff Dave -- that knife looks very cool. Nice way to pay him back for his help.

 

Way cool, Dave!!! Very nice gesture.

 

Dang! That is wicked!

You'll have to come tell his how he freaks out when you give it back to him.

 

That's awesome! Every part of it

 

I just gave him the knife. He was pretty dang happy! :cool1

 

Awesome!

 

Nice work Dave! I bet he was really happy/

 

Beautiful!

 

That looks amazing!

 

Really like what you did Dave. First class. Maybe opens up a new avenue for with this.

 

Thanks guys! :cool1

 

That looks great!! love the handle and the file blade has come up beautifully as well, nice work Dave:cool1

 

Beautiful work as usual, sir!

 

Wow! Very nice knife. What a great thank you to the neighbor.