Oh man, this knife is absolutely beautiful! Very well done. It amazes me how you take this rusty knife and turn it into such an amazing restoration! Two thumbs way up!
This is a fake video. Not only the comments are filled with paid bot comments. The rust is fake or intentional lets say. You can see this as the metal is way too perfect after the electro bath and the blobs are intentional. The damaged edge can be fake as well as the weathered handle. But otherwise the knife is in way too good of a condition to be really rust or even old.
It 'INFURIATES!' me... Someone will put their blades in a vat of vinegar for a few days or in mud for weeks for the rust and splash it with mig-weld like rust was the cause. It's obvious mig-Weld Splash to the untrained eye?
Exactly rust makes pits in the knife not mounds of metal on it,all he had to do was sand that down and it would have been as good as it was a couple of weeks ago.
I agree with the Handel remake for it Tobe useful it has to have a weight balance and a full grip. It's a long thick knife and well a short Handel just doesn't cover it.
Genuine curiosity here, not intended as criticism in any way. I'm cyriius as to why almost every RU-vid restorer sees fit to do (minimum) 12 hours of electrolysis (often sand blasting as well) if they're going to spend many, many more hours grinding, sanding, scraping, wire brushing and polishing every millimeter of the blade anyway. To me it just seems excessive, but then what do I know. Anyway, it was a beautiful knife and you did a good job.
As soon as you ground your own curves and recesses into the blade it stopped being a restoration and became your own interpretation. I would also remark on the MIG welding spots that tends to indicate that the blade has been rusted by choice to make a restoration post which is not a restoration. Why not be honest? Just seems to be unnecessary to fabricate a falsehood.
The origin of the knife is irrelevant,it is still a restoration of a knife to usefulness and the fellow doing it added his own touches. Get over yourselfs. Whether you are right or wrong you still sound quite douchy.
