Showed this video to my grandpa, career Marine during WWII and Korea, he said thay pilot's knives were originally brushed or blued so that they weren't so reflective, because it's a survival knife - not supposed to be shiny. They wound up polished after being drawn from and inserted to the scabbard a million times.
Thank you for pointing out the obvious I was very disappointed with this restoration like don't get me wrong it looks nice but it's not even that same knife it has not history behind it or sentimental value anymore
Still have mine from the late 60’s and early 70’s; they were in my survival vest. Went through two vests thus the two knives in my possession and they are in great condition and both are dated 1968. Flew A6 INTRUDERS.
@@randystanley3910 Good day to you Mr. Stanley. Yes, I flew A6’s out of Whidbey, early 70’s on through 1977; off active duty then but stayed in the Reserves and retired after 28 yrs in 1996. Lived on Whidbey until 2009 when we closed down our business and retired; moving back East where we grew up and where the kids and grandkids now live. Oh, by the way, yes the A6 was loud especially low, high speed and coming at you.
@@kenmarsh2668 Retired Marine and my first deployment was to Japan with an A-6 Squadron, VMA-332 Moonlighters out of MCAS Cherry Point N.C They were redesignated to an F/A18 SQDRN in MCAS Beaufort S.C. and deactivated in 2007. I hated them, not the A-6 but the squadron. I was an Ordie and they would order up a whole frag so we would be building up MK 82's & maybe some 83's for a whole day and the next morning they would cancel the frag order. Wouldn't have been bad but we couldn't leave anything built up longer than over night on the ordnance pad so we had to tear everything back down and pack it up just to do it all over again in a day or two. Semper Fi, Sailor!
I started being disappointed the moment he bevelled the contour of the blade. Then I even become more disappointed when the handle was colored with a freaking sharpie. The outcome was far different from what it was intended. That doesn't look like it was restored at all...
Over sixty years ago, my father taught me a family secret passed down through many generations of German metal-workers and blacksmiths. When we purchased a new high carbon steel knife, the first thing we did was to submerge the blade(s) into a cup or other appropriate container filled with a mild salt solution to cause the blade to rust until it was mildly pitted after which it was cleaned of the rust in a mild acid bath. Then the blade was polished on a buffing wheel with a stick abrasive applied and the edge was re-honed to a razor sharpness. The reason for doing all this was that the rusting process drove the surface carbon deeper into the blade improving its ability to take and hold a razor sharp edge. The technique seemed to work, especially on the three blade "stockman" style knives every farmer who also raised livestock like cattle, pigs, and sheep carried. The shorter curved edge blade was necessarily kept razor sharp, sharp enough to shave hair on the back of our arms, for use in castrating the young male animals born into the farmer's herd.
@@mhaaddict2630 Stockmans have a spey blade for a reason. They don’t have a sharp tip so you can cut the nuts off your animals without accidentally stabbing them. You tie a rubber band around those bad boys until they die and turn black, then go at them with the spey blade.
@ AAL demon’s world Of course you can burn leather, you have heard about branding cattle? A hot nail, or an electric soldering iron would do. But this guy should not restore valuable items.
I own one of those knives, and I can say with the utmost certainty that he indeed just screwed up that knife. In fact, I would say that it was probably worth more money when it was still rusty.
@@moviemaker2011z he didn't redo the serrations on the back properly, and he colored in the handle with a sharpie... Plus the leather stacked handles should have been soaked and coated in oil, usually linseed oil. The blued fuller with blade in the white is a stylistic choice but in no way a "restoration". He also didn't put a proper edge on the blade. At most he stopped before finishing it and just colored in the handle with a sharpie and said eff it.
@@jasonjulian1 okay, those are legitimate concerns yes, but that doesnt mean he's incompetent. There are many channels that do restorations and they all vary in skill or talent. This guy will probably get better over time.
Got one of those things here somewhere. I first thought it was a one off, home made, it's so heavy with that hex pommel and steel spacers. It was when I tried to sharpen it I realised how hard the steel was. I've learnt something today!
That was a great restoration!! I have a Camillas pilot knife that I got in 1961. It went on many camping trips and to Cambodia in 1971. It is a beautiful knife and I still use it!! Mine still has the sheath and sharpening stone. Great job!!!
I have one of those knives. Like brand new, looks like I bought it yesterday. My dad gave it to me when I was 7 years old, I'm in my 40s now. So the knife is at least that old. Couldn't give you an exact age though. And it's razor sharp too.
@@cindahaddock6376 Is there a date stamped on it? I never bothered to look to be honest. I don't think mine is from the Vietnam War era. If I were to guess, I would say mine is late 70s. But I honestly don't know
I have one of these knives that was my dad’s in Vietnam. Th only thing you didn’t do that mine has is that all the metal was originally blued on mine, not just the indentations. Whole blade, guard, and pommel, all are blued on mine.
Absolutely. I still have my k-bar with blued metal and black leather handle. The sheath is black leather too. We were supposed to leave knives and such with the armory. I didn't get the memo.
That's not bluing, those knives were what's called parkerized, about like electroplating, supposed to make them last a lifetime, and help prevent rust.
Okay you messed up. A Pilots Knife, that old, should be either powder coated Brown, or use a solution like Plum Brown, to brown the blade and hard ware. Looks much better. You could also have gotten a washer rebuild kit easy enough. A fishing buddy of mine, who was in Vietnam, as a Pilot, brought his home. I've sharpened it for him a few times and oiled the handle and sheath. The steel is pretty hard. And the serrations are there to help cut your way out of a aircraft, since it just skinned in aluminum.
I was looking for the comment before I commented myself, he should really take notes from other Channels, he could learn a lot. Subpar is the perfect word for this restoration.
It’s all about the piece tho, if there’s not too much to restore then that’s how it is, if it’s corroded to hell and back and fused together then it’ll take longer, quicker restoration often just means a more intact piece, I don’t see an issue with it.
@@oldmanmorgan5088 The problem is that he reground most of the surface with a file, you would usually use the belt sander for the surface if not just the edge of the blade.
@@MegaRotors makes sense I guess, I don’t know too much about all this but I do tinker around with a few things myself, I’m trying to get into knife making and re edging older blades and all that, so thanks for the tip
Hilariously enough, we still have some of these at my unit. There's one that my buddy has where the crossguard is being held on with paracord. Other than that, it's in surprisingly great condition for a knife that's seen probably 3 wars and 50 years of use. Sad to see one left in a sad state, "restored" and left in an arguably worse state.
A very good friend of mine who served in veiatnam found this knife in a wash and gave it to me as a gift. I also repaired it and carry it to this day its very reliable and durable. However I did not remove the piting because I felt it gave it character all thanks to my friend nam tom.
What a come back on that Pilots knife. I have my uncle's knife from when he was in the navy during WW2. I also have his carvings, signal book and his pocket bible.
For your future sanity's sake, get a couple of punch knives. They work VERY well for cutting through the leather to make square holes like that without having to play with a carpet knife.
We've used a handmade annealed copper washer between the blade & guard to help absorb impacts & melted beeswax between each leather washer to help seal & waterproof the handle
I had a knife like this when I was a kid. It was a plastic toy. That was many years ago and I'm now 60 years old. SHORT NOTE: my uncle had a real one and the case was leather and had a sewing on pouch that held a small wet stone for sharping.
@@The1stKelvin it really depends on how long you let the blade rust, in this video, the rust is only on the outermost layer, meaning it didn't damage the metal
@@The1stKelvin machinist/metallurgist here, iron oxides comes in mannny forms, not just the nasty broken up red stuff. The red stuff is commonly known as simply rust (Fe2O3). As an oxide there's another form Fe3O4 which is magnetite or bluing, it's the blackened steel that exists on guns and knives and wrought iron work it's forms a protective layer. Rust however mildly does the same things in the right conditions however it's horrible at it, when Fe2O3 hydrates it expands and flakes of in nasty chunks. Dry rust like this would do no damage to the hardened steel underneath, even flaking rust would only weaken the blade where it oxidizes, the clean steel underneath would bear the exact same hardness as before.
thats the Air Force survival knife originally from Ontario Knife Company but a lot of people made copies. I have one. Its not bad, but theres better modern designs. One of the best features is that heavy end cap is useful as a hammer.
Had one of these knives back in 1975-77, was stationed at Howard AFB, Panama. The night time thieves came, took my knife, a Craftsman drill, other tools. Got some compensation for the missing items, but, never enough to replace the originals. Great recovery, use stain on the sanded leather rounds, not authentic, but, improves the looks, did mine, thanks for posting and sharing.
Don’t forget, with the birchwood and casey super blue it only needs to be on there for about 30 seconds, but then needs to be neutralized by rinsing with cold water. Then you can add your oil. If not, you are leaving the chemicals in place which could cause problems farther down the line, especially if any vets trapped under the oil.
I have one also. Was my dads from Vietnam. Mine is in good condition. I still use it on a regular basis. The sheath is starting to have a few problems though.
I have one too but the later version with like rubber grip and guard and metal and kydex like sheath with the sharpening stone of course. the American friend of my grand father gave it to him and now I use it to the farm every day
Yes. People who don’t know any better will tell you great job. Professional blade smiths will tell you that it was quick and dirty “restoration” but you already know that. You didn’t even bother to profile the tip to a point. You can do better.
Hey Matty B, I noticed you don’t have any expert knife restorations on your TH-cam site. Instead of being nasty, why not compliment this fella and then suggest profiling the point. I thought he did a pretty good job.
I found one of these in a burn barrel in Afghanistan. Due to lack of proper tools I was only able to do some crude repairs and throw a 550 cord handle on it. Years later back in the US I put a mahogany handle on it.
Still have mine from my Navy days flying ‘Market Time’ patrols in ‘66 & ‘67. Used the sharping stone (in a pocket on the leather case) the other day to fix a dull pocket knife. I think mine looks better than his! VP-40 SP-5B NFO
this is a 2000s replica of a vietnam pilot knife, it looks nothing like the originals and are made differently. seems like you buried in your yard for a couple months more than it looks like natural aging and rust. also with rust caked on the blade there wold have been pitting on it after, but there was not. this is why i say it was bought new and buried for a couple month in wet dirt.
Layne McGuire, its pretty evident in the first 4 seconds of the video. look at how shiny the tip got after he pulled the knife out of the table. Do you really think an old rusty blade will clean up that quick just from contact with wood?
The blade was actually shiny chrome with like super glue and crushed up Cheetos for rust because that rust was definitely man made. Anything for views nowadays.
Un remarquable travail. Remplacer chaque lamelle de cuir pour le manche super beau résultat mais le travail sur le métal est tout simplement excellent.
He did the right thing though, he took off the handle pieces one by one and kept track of where each one goes in line. I had a similar knife I "restored" and never got the hadle pieces back on exactly right
Lost the patina. Don't color leather you burnish it. The serrations are to cut through the canopy and skin of an aircraft, not sure that it ever worked like intended though. I wasn't aircrew. some combat crews still used this knife as of the late 90s. Spent 20 years on the flightline, just passing along what I was taught and through air crew stories.
you can get a glass bead blaster from harbor freight pretty cheap. strips that rust completely off, then get some parkerizing solution and refinish it.
I have a Camillus 1979 N. Y. air force knife just like that one, it still has the original matt black finish and stacked leather handle. And, by the way, there are grooves where you put the marker pen lines. Maybe you should have reused the original leather stacks that obviously were not epoxied together. My one loosens up in winter and tightens up in summer as relative humidity fluctuates. A wonderful utility knife but difficult to sharpen.
Ngl my heart kinda sank when you whipped out the sharpie man , I liked the knife overall and thought it’s came out looking good but that just kinda ruined it 😭😭
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People in the future will find this exact knife and say restoring a knife from the 20's
"Restoring a restored knife"
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But in the future this restored knife will be like a mini light saber in knife form.
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Showed this video to my grandpa, career Marine during WWII and Korea, he said thay pilot's knives were originally brushed or blued so that they weren't so reflective, because it's a survival knife - not supposed to be shiny. They wound up polished after being drawn from and inserted to the scabbard a million times.
Looks like you and I have something in common: neither one of us knows how to properly restore an antique knife
ruined the serrations and didn't restore the og leather tut tut tut
How’s a going on your channel
Yes you're right
Thank you for pointing out the obvious I was very disappointed with this restoration like don't get me wrong it looks nice but it's not even that same knife it has not history behind it or sentimental value anymore
how? he literally restored it in the video, that clearly proves he does know how to LOL
Still have mine from the late 60’s and early 70’s; they were in my survival vest. Went through two vests thus the two knives in my possession and they are in great condition and both are dated 1968. Flew A6 INTRUDERS.
Have you spent any time in Whidbey island NAS! I went to C school there. When I was stationed in Bremerton Wa, those A6 intruders were loud!
@@randystanley3910 Good day to you Mr. Stanley. Yes, I flew A6’s out of Whidbey, early 70’s on through 1977; off active duty then but stayed in the Reserves and retired after 28 yrs in 1996. Lived on Whidbey until 2009 when we closed down our business and retired; moving back East where we grew up and where the kids and grandkids now live. Oh, by the way, yes the A6 was loud especially low, high speed and coming at you.
@@kenmarsh2668 Retired Marine and my first deployment was to Japan with an A-6 Squadron, VMA-332 Moonlighters out of MCAS Cherry Point N.C They were redesignated to an F/A18 SQDRN in MCAS Beaufort S.C. and deactivated in 2007. I hated them, not the A-6 but the squadron. I was an Ordie and they would order up a whole frag so we would be building up MK 82's & maybe some 83's for a whole day and the next morning they would cancel the frag order. Wouldn't have been bad but we couldn't leave anything built up longer than over night on the ordnance pad so we had to tear everything back down and pack it up just to do it all over again in a day or two. Semper Fi, Sailor!
I started being disappointed the moment he bevelled the contour of the blade. Then I even become more disappointed when the handle was colored with a freaking sharpie. The outcome was far different from what it was intended. That doesn't look like it was restored at all...
I got disappointed when the first thing did to knife was stabbing table.
Knife could snap in half right there.
Yeah, I thought the sharpie was to mark where he was gonna cut out the leather.
Yeah this guy doesn’t not know to restore . That’s for sure
I'm pretty sure it wasn't an anctual Vietnam Knife. If it was, he wouldve sold it
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Over sixty years ago, my father taught me a family secret passed down through many generations of German metal-workers and blacksmiths. When we purchased a new high carbon steel knife, the first thing we did was to submerge the blade(s) into a cup or other appropriate container filled with a mild salt solution to cause the blade to rust until it was mildly pitted after which it was cleaned of the rust in a mild acid bath. Then the blade was polished on a buffing wheel with a stick abrasive applied and the edge was re-honed to a razor sharpness. The reason for doing all this was that the rusting process drove the surface carbon deeper into the blade improving its ability to take and hold a razor sharp edge. The technique seemed to work, especially on the three blade "stockman" style knives every farmer who also raised livestock like cattle, pigs, and sheep carried. The shorter curved edge blade was necessarily kept razor sharp, sharp enough to shave hair on the back of our arms, for use in castrating the young male animals born into the farmer's herd.
im sorry used for what now-
@@mhaaddict2630 Stockmans have a spey blade for a reason. They don’t have a sharp tip so you can cut the nuts off your animals without accidentally stabbing them. You tie a rubber band around those bad boys until they die and turn black, then go at them with the spey blade.
Vietnam War my a**. The rust came right off the tip when you jabbed it in the table at the very beginning
I don't know how the previous owner kept the knife. But now I have it and it won't look like that again.
Finishing off your hard work with a sharpie?!
if i'm correct he's used leather and you can't burn leather to make a mark like with wood, but he could have used paint
Or any type of dye or stain, besides a sharpie. On a knife like this
@ AAL demon’s world Of course you can burn leather, you have heard about branding cattle? A hot nail, or an electric soldering iron would do. But this guy should not restore valuable items.
@@williamkaylor1191 oh ya, but if he dose restore anything, it should be a rusted hammer, just remove the rust and give it to someone else,
I own one of those knives, and I can say with the utmost certainty that he indeed just screwed up that knife. In fact, I would say that it was probably worth more money when it was still rusty.
If it was a 6" blade version they were only in production from 1959-61 so very rare and this muppet screwed it up so badly its hard to watch.
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@@biilybutt9016 how so? Looks perfectly fine to me.
@@moviemaker2011z he didn't redo the serrations on the back properly, and he colored in the handle with a sharpie... Plus the leather stacked handles should have been soaked and coated in oil, usually linseed oil.
The blued fuller with blade in the white is a stylistic choice but in no way a "restoration". He also didn't put a proper edge on the blade.
At most he stopped before finishing it and just colored in the handle with a sharpie and said eff it.
@@jasonjulian1 okay, those are legitimate concerns yes, but that doesnt mean he's incompetent. There are many channels that do restorations and they all vary in skill or talent. This guy will probably get better over time.
Got one of those things here somewhere. I first thought it was a one off, home made, it's so heavy with that hex pommel and steel spacers. It was when I tried to sharpen it I realised how hard the steel was. I've learnt something today!
That was a great restoration!! I have a Camillas pilot knife that I got in 1961. It went on many camping trips and to Cambodia in 1971. It is a beautiful knife and I still use it!! Mine still has the sheath and sharpening stone. Great job!!!
had the same knife for over 35 years , hardened to 61 rockwell , hard to sharpen but holds an edge forever.
I have one of those knives. Like brand new, looks like I bought it yesterday. My dad gave it to me when I was 7 years old, I'm in my 40s now. So the knife is at least that old. Couldn't give you an exact age though. And it's razor sharp too.
I also have mine I carried while on board aircraft carrier in Vietnam we used them to cut lanyards on the bridals on Catuplts mine is dated 1967
@@cindahaddock6376 Is there a date stamped on it? I never bothered to look to be honest. I don't think mine is from the Vietnam War era. If I were to guess, I would say mine is late 70s. But I honestly don't know
@@righty-o3585 , Date is stamped on the end butt cap
@@jimthomas777 oh awesome, thank you 😁🤘
I have one of these knives that was my dad’s in Vietnam. Th only thing you didn’t do that mine has is that all the metal was originally blued on mine, not just the indentations. Whole blade, guard, and pommel, all are blued on mine.
Absolutely. I still have my k-bar with blued metal and black leather handle. The sheath is black leather too. We were supposed to leave knives and such with the armory. I didn't get the memo.
These knives were originally phosphated. It's a lot harder than a standard blueing process and a lot of people wouldn't want to deal with it.
Indentations … do you mean the fuller on each side of the blade?
That's not bluing, those knives were what's called parkerized, about like electroplating, supposed to make them last a lifetime, and help prevent rust.
@@michaelblair6955 Good to know.
looks nothing like the 2 originals I have. But that rounded “point” is spot on!
Okay you messed up. A Pilots Knife, that old, should be either powder coated Brown, or use a solution like Plum Brown, to brown the blade and hard ware. Looks much better. You could also have gotten a washer rebuild kit easy enough. A fishing buddy of mine, who was in Vietnam, as a Pilot, brought his home. I've sharpened it for him a few times and oiled the handle and sheath. The steel is pretty hard. And the serrations are there to help cut your way out of a aircraft, since it just skinned in aluminum.
For a TH-cam channel named Lost and Restored, this was a pretty subpar restoration honestly.
I was looking for the comment before I commented myself, he should really take notes from other Channels, he could learn a lot. Subpar is the perfect word for this restoration.
Do a better restoration yourself then I’ll believe you
It’s all about the piece tho, if there’s not too much to restore then that’s how it is, if it’s corroded to hell and back and fused together then it’ll take longer, quicker restoration often just means a more intact piece, I don’t see an issue with it.
@@oldmanmorgan5088 The problem is that he reground most of the surface with a file, you would usually use the belt sander for the surface if not just the edge of the blade.
@@MegaRotors makes sense I guess, I don’t know too much about all this but I do tinker around with a few things myself, I’m trying to get into knife making and re edging older blades and all that, so thanks for the tip
I have one of those exact knives...got it for $7 from a yard sale along with a machete from WW2 Pacific theater. Best $20 I've spent at a yard sale.
I have the exact same knife. Got it from an antique store. Mines a Camillus that was made back in 71.
That's the only knife that pilots used
Damn I didn't know camille's was a real knife company, I thought they only ever made dog shit Walmart knives
So do I, @sephyrdephyr3005! Mine's an Ontario 1-1973.
This man single handedly keeps WD-40 business alive.
Now that's cool !!!!you are top notch!!!
Hilariously enough, we still have some of these at my unit. There's one that my buddy has where the crossguard is being held on with paracord. Other than that, it's in surprisingly great condition for a knife that's seen probably 3 wars and 50 years of use.
Sad to see one left in a sad state, "restored" and left in an arguably worse state.
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It's called a Bowie knife right?
@@solisortus6241 bowie is a style of knife judging by the looks its the usmc kabar
@@FranciscoLopez-uf9gz it’s a pilot survival knife, nothing close to a kabar
Thanks for serving are country if you are.
Great job until you pulled out the Sharpie,... personally I wouldve used a soldering iron to scorch the leather.
Or at the very least oiled it..lol
Yea or wrapped those sections in copper wire..
Yeah that's cheap crappy lazy and temporary.
A very good friend of mine who served in veiatnam found this knife in a wash and gave it to me as a gift. I also repaired it and carry it to this day its very reliable and durable. However I did not remove the piting because I felt it gave it character all thanks to my friend nam tom.
What a come back on that Pilots knife. I have my uncle's knife from when he was in the navy during WW2. I also have his carvings, signal book and his pocket bible.
Jet pilot knife, the previous edition had 6 in. blade then changed to a 5 inch blade. I happened to have both made by Camillus.
Camillus Jet Pilot Survival knife. Sturdy and dependable. Great find!
Yeah, I really like and I'm definitely going to keep this knife.
Fantastic work, love it 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻✊🏻
this guy put so much work in it to just finish with sharpie
Looks like the next restoration project could be that awesome looking bench grinder
I'm not sure what I just watched here, but it made me sad.....
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Great job!
For your future sanity's sake, get a couple of punch knives. They work VERY well for cutting through the leather to make square holes like that without having to play with a carpet knife.
We've used a handmade annealed copper washer between the blade & guard to help absorb impacts & melted beeswax between each leather washer to help seal & waterproof the handle
I just love restoration videos.
I had a knife like this when I was a kid. It was a plastic toy. That was many years ago and I'm now 60 years old.
SHORT NOTE: my uncle had a real one and the case was leather and had a sewing on pouch that held a small wet stone for sharping.
The fact that the knife was still hardened blows my mind
Not really, iron oxide and moisture don't make something fragile, all it does is cover the item in a hard to remove layer of rust
@@JuniperofTheWolves doesn't iron oxide kind of eat at the blade
@@The1stKelvin it really depends on how long you let the blade rust, in this video, the rust is only on the outermost layer, meaning it didn't damage the metal
@@JuniperofTheWolves big brain
@@The1stKelvin machinist/metallurgist here, iron oxides comes in mannny forms, not just the nasty broken up red stuff. The red stuff is commonly known as simply rust (Fe2O3). As an oxide there's another form Fe3O4 which is magnetite or bluing, it's the blackened steel that exists on guns and knives and wrought iron work it's forms a protective layer. Rust however mildly does the same things in the right conditions however it's horrible at it, when Fe2O3 hydrates it expands and flakes of in nasty chunks. Dry rust like this would do no damage to the hardened steel underneath, even flaking rust would only weaken the blade where it oxidizes, the clean steel underneath would bear the exact same hardness as before.
this guy is getting flamed in here and dude this looks sick!
I carried one for 3 years in RVN as my sheath knife. (I was Army.) They were always flat black so they didn't reflect light.
thats the Air Force survival knife originally from Ontario Knife Company but a lot of people made copies. I have one. Its not bad, but theres better modern designs. One of the best features is that heavy end cap is useful as a hammer.
Dope AF results overall, @lostandrestored!
It is perfect. You are the best. Greetings from Brazil.
Had one of these knives back in 1975-77, was stationed at Howard AFB, Panama. The night time thieves came, took my knife, a Craftsman drill, other tools. Got some compensation for the missing items, but, never enough to replace the originals. Great recovery, use stain on the sanded leather rounds, not authentic, but, improves the looks, did mine, thanks for posting and sharing.
Well done 👍👍Great restoration 👍👍🎯
not really
Don’t forget, with the birchwood and casey super blue it only needs to be on there for about 30 seconds, but then needs to be neutralized by rinsing with cold water. Then you can add your oil. If not, you are leaving the chemicals in place which could cause problems farther down the line, especially if any vets trapped under the oil.
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I have this exact same knife since I was a kid. Still have it in its original sheath with sharpening stone.
I have 2 but sadly I have no sheaths for any of them
I have one also. Was my dads from Vietnam. Mine is in good condition. I still use it on a regular basis. The sheath is starting to have a few problems though.
I have one too but the later version with like rubber grip and guard and metal and kydex like sheath with the sharpening stone of course. the American friend of my grand father gave it to him and now I use it to the farm every day
They're actually still in production. The model is the Ontario 499
I’ll use this video as a reference to things done wrong.
Was like a train wreck….. Couldn’t help myself but to watch it till the end with a disturbing look on my face lol.
Kind of missing the point of using the leather if you just soak it in epoxy…
This is the preferred method for making a stacked leather knife handle. All knifemakers do this.
Yo Adrian great video
You did such a good job until the end with the sharpie dang.
I had an old knife that I was gonna restore and came across this video and I happen to have the same knife
Yes. People who don’t know any better will tell you great job. Professional blade smiths will tell you that it was quick and dirty “restoration” but you already know that. You didn’t even bother to profile the tip to a point. You can do better.
Agreed
Oh yes yes, " profile the tip to a point" agreed
As I got the same knife
Hey Matty B, I noticed you don’t have any expert knife restorations on your TH-cam site. Instead of being nasty, why not compliment this fella and then suggest profiling the point. I thought he did a pretty good job.
@@cajunpipesmoker1519 that’s cause you have a mediocre idea of what a “pretty good job” restoration is bud.
This knife looks very good and unique
Good job.... congratulation
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just awsome
litterally every restoration youtubers : BLUING EVERYTHING ! I hate that
Nice bro
look really cool
This is a very cool result! Would love to see this knife tested!
What type of test would you like to see?
@@lostandrestored Cut or pierce something! Usually, many people like these tests at the end of the knife video!
I found one of these in a burn barrel in Afghanistan. Due to lack of proper tools I was only able to do some crude repairs and throw a 550 cord handle on it. Years later back in the US I put a mahogany handle on it.
ur rly underratet u must grow
I have one of those knives ty for showing me how to restore it
this is definitely not how to restore it, he pretty much messed it up
Still have mine from my Navy days flying ‘Market Time’ patrols in ‘66 & ‘67. Used the sharping stone (in a pocket on the leather case) the other day to fix a dull pocket knife. I think mine looks better than his!
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Nice. Hard to find anything like this to restore in the UK 🇬🇧 so I stick to tools mainly
I wouldn't have guessed that with all the wonderful history there.
hell of a job brother
hurt me when he used a sharpie at the end
this is a 2000s replica of a vietnam pilot knife, it looks nothing like the originals and are made differently. seems like you buried in your yard for a couple months more than it looks like natural aging and rust. also with rust caked on the blade there wold have been pitting on it after, but there was not. this is why i say it was bought new and buried for a couple month in wet dirt.
Its a Ontario knife company one
The rust was powdery and just on the surface. You just buried it in your back yard for a week.
My money's on this being the OKC's pilot knife reproduction.
Layne McGuire, its pretty evident in the first 4 seconds of the video. look at how shiny the tip got after he pulled the knife out of the table. Do you really think an old rusty blade will clean up that quick just from contact with wood?
My first thought exactly. No pitting from rust, came out of the wood shiny, instantly suspect.
The blade was actually shiny chrome with like super glue and crushed up Cheetos for rust because that rust was definitely man made. Anything for views nowadays.
I agree. I knew the second he pulled it out of the wood. Very disappointing.
Nice work buddy, I love the end result! Well done!
idk, it irks me how he messed it up in more then a few ways
Un remarquable travail. Remplacer chaque lamelle de cuir pour le manche super beau résultat mais le travail sur le métal est tout simplement excellent.
Sweet 👍🏻 👍🏻
amazing
He did the right thing though, he took off the handle pieces one by one and kept track of where each one goes in line. I had a similar knife I "restored" and never got the hadle pieces back on exactly right
but he just threw the original leather out the window and used new ones
His left arm's glove has a hole in the thumb
Thank you 🙂
3:47 why is there no pitting on the steel if it was that rusted
Its Probbaly a Ontario knife that he destroyed on purpose and then restore it
Good job. Congratulation 😊.
Good job!
Porfect 👍👍👍👍
Great job 👍
The sharpie really added that final screw you to this "restoration"
That is one of the biggest fullers I have ever seen in a combat knife. You could almost fit another knife inside of it.
congratulations friend great job 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Absolutely beautiful. Well done sir. True craftsmanship.
Satisfarory 😔👌
Nice video! Just 1 question, what was the solution you used in the beginning to get the rust off?
Excellent Job !
Lost the patina. Don't color leather you burnish it. The serrations are to cut through the canopy and skin of an aircraft, not sure that it ever worked like intended though. I wasn't aircrew. some combat crews still used this knife as of the late 90s. Spent 20 years on the flightline, just passing along what I was taught and through air crew stories.
I'm no expert but it looks pretty nice to me. I have a hunting knife made out of a deer antler for a handle. I love it.
you can get a glass bead blaster from harbor freight pretty cheap. strips that rust completely off, then get some parkerizing solution and refinish it.
I have a Camillus 1979 N. Y. air force knife just like that one, it still has the original matt black finish and stacked leather handle. And, by the way, there are grooves where you put the marker pen lines. Maybe you should have reused the original leather stacks that obviously were not epoxied together. My one loosens up in winter and tightens up in summer as relative humidity fluctuates. A wonderful utility knife but difficult to sharpen.
I take it this was your first knife restoration ?
Had one my first tour in Vietnam and carried it thru my second tour as well. Had it for years then it disappeared while I was stationed in GTMO.
Klasse ! Danke !
Great Video!
Make dark links master sword but as A small blade that would be sick
yo your videos are so cool I love them carry on making these awesome videos
That a U.S. Air Force aviator Survial knife. You can still buy them at the PX clothing and sales.
Ngl my heart kinda sank when you whipped out the sharpie man , I liked the knife overall and thought it’s came out looking good but that just kinda ruined it 😭😭
very nice