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Hi there Every1!

I'd be very grateful if you'd help me to identify the knife I've inherited.

The knife is working perfectly, it needs some restoration though.

Thank you in advance.

Originally had plastic handles, someone put stag on it.

I'd be very surprised if you found a professional switchblade restorer willing to work on a Rizzuto.

The Rizzuto was/is one of the cheapest switchblades ever made, both in construction and materials. Basically, they were novelties. They were made just to be sold, they weren't made to actually be used as knives. And they weren't made to last.

Two of the most reputable, professional switchblade repairmen/restorers I know of, Bill DeShivs and Muskrat Man (Kal Rey), both say that they won't work on Rizzutos.

I know of one guy who has restored/repaired Rizzutos for others and does a great job. His name is Jeremy Kreis. I don't know if he is a member here but he is/was a member at Talkblade (user name JimBrown257), but I don't think he's been there for awhile and he's difficult to impossible to get in touch with. So I guess that really isn't much help.

And to complicate things even more, it looks like those stag handle scales were glued/epoxied on. And that would make disassembly and repair a lot more difficult.

And just so you know, despite it's name and marking, the knife isn't Italian. The Rizzutos were made in Japan and Korea.

nexgen77 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2025 4:15 pm Hi there Every1!

I'd be very grateful if you'd help me to identify the knife I've inherited.

The knife is working perfectly, it needs some restoration though.

Thank you in advance.

What Kilgar is saying is right. Rizzutos don't have a very sturdy construction and not many repair craftsman work on them. That is however a desirable rizzy if brought back to health. It's a batwing and looks to be a single pin. Can you shoot a picture of the back of the knife? It will of course never be original again as those stag scales are there now and the factory ones are long gone but IMO worth saving. To start I'd try use paint thinner to wear down that epoxy.

They did a fine job with putting a new stag scale on that one. Like Killgar and QGofLake said, there aren’t too many repairmen out there willing to work on Rizzutos. Aside from a slight bit of peaking, the knife looks pretty nice as is. Whoever re-scaled it did some good work.

I'm sorry, but the stag rescaling on this knife is NOT done well at all.

Bill DeShivs wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:36 pm I'm sorry, but the stag rescaling on this knife is NOT done well at all.

Couldn't agree more. Size is wrong making the button low relative to the surface and surprised it works. Scales are blocky and stag is not right for a rizzy anyway. And the epoxy. I hope that is the only one they did.