Robeson Pocket-Eze Jack Restoration
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:31 pm
Here is another practice knife. I call them practice knives because I am still fine-tuning my hands after the surgery last year. IMO, my hands are still not back to 100%, but the practice knives are helping me develop alternative ways to work on the knives without stressing my hands as bad as I did with the old techniques I used.
Here is an old Robeson Pocket-Eze Jack that I reworked. Of course I forgot to take any pictures. Even hand sanding didn't remove all of the grinding marks on the blade, especially on the backside. The tang stamp on the front side of this knife is not a very visible except in good light with magnification. The rear tang stamp is much more visible showing the Robeson model number 882724. This also was a knife that had been rode hard and put away wet. The bolsters were dinged, the blade was ground on a grinder, the handles were shrinking and the secondary blade was pretty much used up. I would have put the shield back on the new handles, but the shield was worn so thin on one edge that it was almost fragile and part of the name was worn off.
I put ruby bone on this knife and remove the secondary blade and center liner. I took a lot of dings out of the bolsters but couldn't get all of the grinding marks off the blade without thinning it too much. The profile of the Pocket Eze design, especially with the secondary blade gone, makes for a very easy to carry, slim in the pocket user-friendly pattern. I also enlarged the cut out for the secondary blade to make a full easy open out of it. It makes the knife much easier to open.
Here is an old Robeson Pocket-Eze Jack that I reworked. Of course I forgot to take any pictures. Even hand sanding didn't remove all of the grinding marks on the blade, especially on the backside. The tang stamp on the front side of this knife is not a very visible except in good light with magnification. The rear tang stamp is much more visible showing the Robeson model number 882724. This also was a knife that had been rode hard and put away wet. The bolsters were dinged, the blade was ground on a grinder, the handles were shrinking and the secondary blade was pretty much used up. I would have put the shield back on the new handles, but the shield was worn so thin on one edge that it was almost fragile and part of the name was worn off.
I put ruby bone on this knife and remove the secondary blade and center liner. I took a lot of dings out of the bolsters but couldn't get all of the grinding marks off the blade without thinning it too much. The profile of the Pocket Eze design, especially with the secondary blade gone, makes for a very easy to carry, slim in the pocket user-friendly pattern. I also enlarged the cut out for the secondary blade to make a full easy open out of it. It makes the knife much easier to open.
