Posted 8 years ago
bobbee
(105 items)
Vintage 1960's (I think) MIKOV lock knife with a 3 1/2 inch blade.
Not sure if the scales are bone or stag, they look great though and it needs a bit of cleaning.
Got this last week on an epic car boot fair holiday by the coast, one fair every day! I paid £7 for it, and got a couple of smaller pen knives too.
Update-just added two new pics post-cleaning.
Hope you think it looks better.
Thanks everyone, Bob.
Thanks for the loves!
Great find, Bob! With some refurb work, it ought to look super! [;>)
Thanks my man!
How would you go about the work on this one? I really don't know what to do with it apart from some general cleaning with flitz metal polish, and some oiling.
I like my knives to look as clean as possible, no patina at all, so I usually start off with a heavy grade kitchen pot scrubber. You know, those usually dark green colored, thin, rectangular scouring pads to clean your pots and pans. I buy industrial-strength scrubbers in large sheets at hardware stores, not the small, weaker-strength pads sold in the kitchen supplies aisle at grocery stores. I cut the sheets into small pieces.
After the heavy-duty, I use a medium-grade, then a light-duty, and finally use ultra fine, grade 0000, steel wool to buff and polish the metal. I do have both a bench-mounted electric grinder/polisher and a portable, hand-held electric buffer/polisher, but prefer doing things old school, even filing a broken blade into a new tip manually by hand, if possible. I know, some people will raise their eyebrows, but I use WD-40 to do all of my oiling. Old school. [;>)
Sweet, I have kitchen scourers, copper and steel wool, Flitz metal polish, Brasso and several grades of Micro-Mesh which is waaay better than wet and dry paper. It's flexible and washable and lasts forever.
Should gleam if I do it right!
Thanks so much for the tips, and thanks to all for the lurves!
Using two grades (1500 then 6000) of Micro-Mesh, then good old Brasso, I removed most of the dirt and rust, leaving just some tiny pockmarks in the blade.
Nice and shiny but not too overdone. All done by my fair hand with no machinery!
Thanks guys, especially you KJ!