Yet another Camillus re-handle

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Yet another Camillus re-handle

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I decided to go with something a little more subdued this time--this material (not sure what it is, but it's not an acrylic) is harder to work, and so this one took a lot of elbow grease (I'm using only hand tools to do this work). The knife came to me without handles, but everything else was OK (good snap, no wobble) so I just added the handles, sharpened the blades, and here it is! There was a ding in the sheepsfoot blade, so I had to take about a mm of of it to get that out; otherwise the blades were in pretty good shape.

I'm not sure what model this is; there is only the four-line maker stamp on the main blade.
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Nice work!

That is some interesting looking cover material.

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Nice work.
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Cool looking handle material and a nice job on the re-work!
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Nice job!

Looks pretty correct to the celluloid of the era, but without all the problems.

I'm planning on rehandling two small knives later on, and I will be using Antique Pearl Kirinite. One is a Standard Knife Co. that was waterfall celluloid that went bad, the other is a Utica Camillus 14-alike that has some awful imitation stag handles, but I figure I'll do it in Antique Pearl Kirinite as it's period correct for a '50s knife.
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Beresman, you've gone and really messed up now!
You have the "knife mechanic fever", and there ain't no cure!
(Great job, by the way!)
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