Trash To Cash! Knifemaking / Restoration Of The UGLIEST Flea Market Knife Ever

Install Raid for Free ✅ Mobile: ✅ PC: Start with💰50K silver and get a Free Epic Champion 💥 on day 7 of “New Player Rewards” program Yes! Another knife restoration. I love making this kind of projects! This rusty old knife came from a recent visit to my town sunday flea market, needless to say I paid pretty much nothing for this. I guess it’s no surprise, not many would buy something in this condition right?! But I knew it had potential. Under rust, dust and bad welds the steel is nice and hard! (between 50 and 55 Rhc) We can even see a hint of a makers mark, unfortunatly incomplete, so I am not able to discover when and where it was made and for what specific use. Still cool! For the handle I used: stainless steel, ebony wood, white felt liners, stabilized cork and stabilized curly maple (I think it’s maple, not sure). I just started to list some of the stuff I use for my projects in this amazon storefront: It’s affiliate marketing, so if you order something from here you’ll help the channel for free! Thank you! Here are some of the videos where I go in more details about tecniques and tools used in this video: Stabilizing wood: Vacuum pump and chamber used to stabilize: Felt liners: Stabilized cork: My lovely drill press: My lovely buffer: Ind ex of operation and materials: 0:30 Weak welds, easy to break loose 0:54 Electrolysis: water and sodium carbonate solution, parts connected to negative side and steel sacrificial anodes to positive sice of a DC power supply (car battery charger). 2-3 hrs at 5amp. 1:17 Remove patina with steel wire brush in water 3:16 Cut off disk on angle grinder to remove ugly welded tang extension 5:05 Remove rust and patina with steel wire wheel on bench grinder 5:17 Fill old pin holes with stick weld 6:12 Transfer design with paper template, small magnets and random spray paint 6:31 Re-shape on 2x72 belt grinder, edge kept cool with water bucket 7:18 Round cornes with die grinder and stone bits 7:40 Grind new bevels on 2x72 belt grinder, edge kept cool with water bucket 8:00 Hand sand to 600grit sandpaper 8:20 Etch in ferric chloride 8:30 Satin finish with fine steel whool 9:06 Notch onthe tang for glue to grab later on 9:50 Cut materials for handle stack 10:16 Grind faces flat 10:46 Glueing the handle stack with 5 min epoxy resin 11:19 Grind square 11:38 Drill tang hole, 10mm in diameter 12:17 Mark and center puch guard holes 12:40 Drilling with 3 mm bit 13:06 Grinding back side with dremel to save some file work 13:38 Filing to size 14:05 Tang dowel took to the exact diameter by spinning on a plate with hole drilled with same bit as the tang hole 14:20 Splitting the dowel 14:32 Enlarge the slot to match the tang thickness on slack of 2x72 belt grinder 15:00 Final glue up with slow setting epoxy glue 16:00 Squeezout cleaned with nitro solvent 16:18 Grinding handle to shape on 2x72 belt grinder 17:00 Hand sanding up to 600 grit 17:34 Boiled linseed oil as finish 17:54 Sharpen with MadEdge sharpener 18:23 Strop on leather with fine polishing coumpound Thanks a lot for watching, I hope you liked the video! Suggestions and comments are welcome. Leave a like and share to anyone who might be interested! ★Patreon★ ★Website★ ★Follow me★ Facebook ► Twitter ► Instagram ►