Wusthof pocket knife dating

[desert.snake]

Hi, yesterday I picked up a very cute knife with mother of pearl. So far I have only found that Ed. Wüsthof stopped making folding knives in the 70s. Has anyone found a timeline of their stamps?

It is the size of a regular Victorinox, the blades are curved to fit on 1 spring. The central thickening of the spring has a bevel so that the main blade does not become blunt on the handle. Everything is still very well adjusted despite the wear. The axle pins are made of steel. I got it for $30, I think it's fair. I would like to know the approximate production time

https://youtu.be/mExgWJTGXss

When I got it, the first thing I did was drop it on the asphalt and got a pretty big burr on the end of the bolster, the small blade wouldn't open because of it, I had to cut that piece off with a Wenger can opener
Someone dropped it or picked it up with something before me, so the main blade can rest against the closing small blade. I'm thinking about how to straighten the handle so that the main blade moves to the side, as it should. I suppose that I just need to hit it with a hammer in the right place, but I don't know where and I'm afraid of ruining the scales

[Suredan]

Nice knife. I would advise against hitting it with a hammer. Unless the goal is to destroy it.

[FRJ]

If you hit the knife with a hammer I hope you remove it from that white hard Arkansas stone so you don't break both of them.

[1967redrider]

Nice knife! Leave the monkeying around to the professionals.

[desert.snake]

Thank you all

I'm not going to ruin it. I lubricated it with some good flashlight grease and now it works great!

This is not quite Arkansas, it is a two-layer glued stone, with a Washita on the underside

[dsutton24]

Flashlight grease?

[desert.snake]

Nano-oil from StClaire. My bottle was delivered with a flashlight Prometheus Alpha. The weight is 10, but I don't quite understand what that is. For flashlights, it turned out to be worse than my favorite Tribolube 71. After all, it is liquid and gradually flows out of the flashlight when heated, but it works quite well in a knife, as well as in my wife's sewing machine. While the bottle is not finished yet, to be honest I don’t see any difference compared to regular household oil, except that this one dries a little slower. My friend recommends me to buy EWL oil, has anyone tried it?

[desert.snake]

Okay, I didn't hit it with a hammer like Tony Bose did in his video, just used pliers through a strong cardboard spacer. I bent and bent the bolsters, and eventually the tip of the large blade moved away from the base of the small blade and it developed a snap. It looks like someone had deformed the knife earlier and something was preventing the spring from working properly. I didn't move on because the best is the enemy of the good + I was worried about the integrity of the MOP scales

That's how it was
https://youtu.be/l4nmEZ1CuOM

And so it became after crimping and turning the bolsters
https://youtu.be/npe4ncwwuzE

In all fairness, this is only half the job; we still need to rivet the axle to secure this position