00:00In today's video I'm going to restore this pocket knife on the bottom. I was
00:03going to do both of them originally but then decided to scrap that idea as I ran
00:07into a couple of hiccups on the one that I did restore. So this thing was pretty
00:14rusty and not much was able to move freely. Even the key ring here was pretty
00:22tight.
00:25I'm just looking at this thing. It's probably a good idea for me to update my
00:30tetanus shot.
00:39I'm opening the wrong way there, Jim.
00:43So there was a good bit of pitting on the can opener but the other pieces did
00:56not have too much of a problem. Actually, I take that back. The key ring was kind of
01:02bad. So the first step here was taking it to the wire wheel to get off the big
01:09pieces of rust. Definitely get careful on the wire wheel. If you're not
01:15paying attention you can have it where the wire wheel will kick the blade onto
01:18your fingers. So certainly wear gloves. Here I ran out of my normal rust
01:25remover so I tried a new type. This is Rust-Oleum. It worked pretty
01:30well but it smells. I didn't care for the smell of it at all.
01:40I didn't really read the directions. I'm not sure how long they recommend you
01:43leave it in there but I left it in overnight so we'll call it a good 24
01:47hours. After letting it sit it did a very similar process as most of the rust
01:56removers where a lot of the rust turns black like this. Just give you an idea.
02:03You can see it kind of looks like tar but
02:09they're freed it upwards a little bit more easy. The parts open a little more
02:14easily and here this is a really bad way to do it. It's kind of a boneheaded move.
02:18You can kind of see that that blade could easily kick back if you're not
02:23paying attention.
02:27Once I got the big pieces on the outside I just took a really light brass wheel
02:33and got the inside and then when it's kind of picks to get down inside even
02:37further. It cleaned up pretty nicely and you can see that the brass is
02:46actually shiny gold now versus the kind of silver. The downside is once I got it
02:51all clean I realized that some of the rust had been holding together the
02:55broken spring here. That was a bummer. After doing all that work I realized
03:00that the spring was broken so I went online and ordered a replacement.
03:13So in order to get the other half of it you get my hand out of the way but you
03:18can see you have to grind off the pin that's holding it and then what I did
03:23was took a piece of scrap wood drilled a small hole so the pin when I knock it
03:27out will have somewhere to go.
03:48I'm not gonna lie I did have to stop the footage because it took me forever to
03:52pull this pin out. I made it look like it was a quick easy process but I should
03:57have driven it through a little bit further than I did.
04:11So once the pin was out I went ahead and took out the good spring too and then
04:15gave it a good cleaning which I did that off-camera. And while I was waiting on
04:22the Postal Service to deliver the replacement spring I tried out this
04:27chisel sharpener for the knife blade and it worked out okay. I didn't realize
04:33that I'd scrapped all the footage till later. So once the replacement spring
04:38came in just put the old pieces together on top of it and kind of outlined the
04:44shape. I couldn't find a spring that matched exactly so I bought one that was
04:48larger and then just ended up sanding it down.
05:00So here you can see I started with a chisel, excuse me not a chisel, but a file and
05:05mine are not exactly the best file so I scrapped that idea and switched it over
05:09to a an actual sand sander.
05:15So then I just got some scrap wood that I liked and it's going to use that for
05:22the blank. And I got some really aggressive sandpaper to make quick work
05:29of the excess wood and have it fit in there more nicely.
05:35And since I don't have a sander anymore I decided to put this sander in the vise
05:46and work on it that way. It works.
05:58So again this is really aggressive sandpaper so it's a quick trial and
06:02error where I would start and stop it and see how much it fit because it would
06:06take big chunks off if you're not paying attention.
06:14So once I got it to size I mixed up a little bit of epoxy and then attached
06:21the blank to the knife using that.
06:33And you do only want to do one side at a time and the reason is you won't know
06:39where the pin location is if you do both of them at the same time. So just do one
06:44side of the blank and then once it dries then drill a hole through.
06:51And here I just used finishing nails. I didn't have any brass rods or anything
07:06more sophisticated but this certainly serves its purpose.
07:15And I will say where I messed up along the way here is you should definitely if
07:20you've sharpened your blade cover it up with something. I didn't pay attention
07:24and left it open like that and ended up slicing my hand later and that was just
07:29a bonehead move on my part.
07:36Once I've got both sides on there went back to the sander and used it to get
07:42rid of the bulk of most of the material here.
07:50And this was a bad a bad effort here. So on the nail that I used I left too much
07:58exposed on both sides rather than get a little more fine-tuned and when I did
08:04having that much made it so the piece just split the wood. So then I had to go
08:13and get some other wood and try it again. So that was kind of a bummer so off
08:18camera I had to get rid of all the resin that had dried from the last block.
08:31So I repeated the same process with just a different type of wood.
08:39And then I'm hammering the nail so that way it'll make a rounded edge and it
08:44won't slip out.
08:48And then here after screwing up the first piece of wood that you saw on
09:07camera I did mess up another one so this is my third one and by this time I was
09:12being a little more cautious and taking my sweet time with the chisel but that's
09:17where I ended up cutting my finger. So anyway don't watch my videos for safety
09:25I think I've said it a couple of times now. Certainly do as I say not as I do.
09:35So here I ended up taking too much of a chunk with the chisel and then just took
09:41some of the shavings from when I was sanding earlier and some super glue it
09:45just patched it up a little bit. Then once that was finished I got the dremel
09:52and kind of fine-tuned it and now I've got the blade covered up.
10:02Once I got it all sanded down then took some acetone to get rid of all the
10:09residue but when you do you're gonna soak up all the oil out of the wood so
10:13it's not the best approach but what I did after that was just use some three
10:17in one oil to get through all the joints and then went ahead and lathered up the
10:22wood while I was at it. I've never done that before I don't know if it's a good
10:28idea or not but it worked for this piece. So after letting that sit for a little
10:33bit I covered up the wood pieces and then went over to the buffing wheel so
10:39that way I could make it shiny. Then came back and took some Murphy's wax for
10:47the wood portions and here's what it looks like. So again it's pretty shiny on
10:53the ends if I'd removed the key ring I probably could have made this other end
10:56a little more shiny but again this was a quick project since I hadn't done a
11:00video in a while due to work and painting my office and some other things
11:04that got me sidetracked. Here are some before and after photos. Thanks for
11:09watching.
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