Couple vintage pocket knives Ebay pickups, both cleaned up really nicely.

What are you using to polish these up? I have several knives that I need to give some TLC.
 
Ferrisfan said:
What are you using to polish these up? I have several knives that I need to give some TLC.
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I use Never Dull and then Flitz to clean and polish the knives after I do a cleanup/rust removal. I have a 1x30 belt sander, small jewelry bench grinder/polisher, but often I use different girt sanding paper and steel wool to remove surface rust by hand.

If I find a really rusted up knife I sometimes will soak the knife in Evaporust for a few hours to loosen up and remove heavy rust. I am typically more concerned with making these vintage knives usable and fully functional again more than making them look like a "new" knife. I like the blades with some patina and if you get too aggressive trying to remove rust pitting on the blades you can easily remove too much material and damage the blades.

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This guys (Knife Doctor) has a You Tube channel and is very good at restoring vintage pocket knives. You can learn a lot from watching his videos.
 
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Latest find........Case Fish knife. Tang Stamp Manuf. Date: 1950-1964. It cleanup really nicely.
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great work.
a similar fish-knife is what i carried to school,
back when boys were encouraged to have
a knife in their pockets at all times.
 
pirate said:
I use Never Dull and then Flitz to clean and polish the knives after I do a cleanup/rust removal. I have a 1x30 belt sander, small jewelry bench grinder/polisher, but often I use different girt sanding paper and steel wool to remove surface rust by hand.

If I find a really rusted up knife I sometimes will soak the knife in Evaporust for a few hours to loosen up and remove heavy rust. I am typically more concerned with making these vintage knives usable and fully functional again more than making them look like a "new" knife. I like the blades with some patina and if you get too aggressive trying to remove rust pitting on the blades you can easily remove too much material and damage the blades.

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This guys (Knife Doctor) has a You Tube channel and is very good at restoring vintage pocket knives. You can learn a lot from watching his videos.
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I watch a lot of that Knife Doctor fella's videos. He really knows what he is doing. I think it is great that there are folks out there saving these old knives.
 
Studentofthegun said:
I watch a lot of that Knife Doctor fella's videos. He really knows what he is doing. I think it is great that there are folks out there saving these old knives.
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He is an certainly an inspiration and we use some very similar methods. I will be cleaning up and making a bone handle material repair to a vintage Queen Congress soon.

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Completed the cleanup/renovation of the vintage Queen Steel large congress pocket knife I found last week and made the repair to the missing section of winterbone handle. I used putty epoxy to fill in the section of the winterbone handle that was missing and then mixed some white, yellow and brown acrylic paint to touch up over the sanded and smoothed epoxy. Turn out pretty well I think.

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Overall the old queen cleanup nicely and is looking good now. Queen knives are know for good blade "walk and talk" and strong blade snap and this one is no exception.
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