Finishing a New Old Stock Mora 311

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with something liance outfitters in the pathfinder school I thought I would do a little project this morning with you before you started out here in the blacksmith shop I've got a Maura frost more in number 311 here and this is a knife from the 70s that came from the basement at the Moore factory that's in an unfinished State the blade and the knife have been assembled in the sheath is in its raw state right now unstained and unfinished and the handle has not been final saying that our finishing it's pretty rough right now so we're going to go ahead and finish this up make it fit the sheath well put a coat of boiled linseed oil on the handle and get it all nice and ready to go and then we're going to stain the sheath a dark brown and bring this knife back to life and if you saw the beginning segment as I showed the knife up close it's about a 10 inch overall knife with about a 5 inch blade it's got a very butcher knife type profile to it I like that really well

Scandinavian grinding this blade is laminated steel which means it is a stainless over carbon it's got a carbon center in it that gives you a carbon blade here at the bottom on your cutting edge and then it's covered in stainless or sandwiched between stainless the carbon is so that you have that robustness of stainless steel for corrosion resistance on the outside it's a very very nice knife it looks really nice it doesn't quite fit down the sheath properly right now because it hasn't been final sanded yet but we're going to take care of all of that on video today stay with me okay so the first thing we're going to do is we're just going to make a quick cardboard mask for the blade itself here so that we can't work with it without cutting ourselves and this is just a piece of cardboard box doesn't have to be anything spectacular that's for sure that we're going to fold over the top of this thing just enough to give us a bleed cover so that we can manipulate this around the grinder and not have to worry about it and we'll just cover that with tape just fold all that over really good will this you some is blue masking type tape here to make a really quick blade cover just take a couple seconds but it's a whole lot safer when you're manipulating this thing around the grinder to get that blade for tuck it doesn't have to be anything fancy at all just needs to be something that will hold that blade just like that now we can manipulate that all we want to have to worry about cutting ourselves all right so we've got 120 grit J belt here on our belt sander and this is a grizzly 2 by 72 belt sander works really really well but these J belts allow you to be able to kind of manipulate things and push them into the belt and the belt will flex not like a really hard heavy grit belt so it's really good for shaping work

we use the backside of this thing as a black belt with no platen it will allow us to be able to manipulate a little easier even

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now we'll get some fire threat hands sandpaper know what's on it from there now we're going to do is we're going to set our knife aside for a minute we're going to go ahead and stain our leather sheath and we're just going to use some fiebing's here on that this is a dark brown comes with an applicator and we're going to stain the sheath and then we will coat the sheath after that with thick sand wax again the sheath is all raw leather so it's going to it should take this dye pretty well it may take a couple of coats to get this where you want it

make sure we get everything covered really well and we'll put probably at least two coats on here of this stuff and then we will let it dry and then we'll go ahead and get our fix and wax on here just to coat everything up really really well all right so while our sheet is drying now we're going to apply some boiled linseed oil to our handle it's just as easy to use tissue paper as a rag and tissue paper a lazier to burn when you're done and you want to apply this boiled linseed a little basically until it quits soaking in so put a coat on let it sit put a coat on let it sit pretty much until it quits taking oil then we'll go and we'll buff the brass on a buffing wheel get everything wiped down on that so we'll let that dry and then we'll come back and put another coat up below on the handle as well okay so one thing you want to make sure of is when you get done with using linseed oil you take care of the rags properly burn them or put them in water so that they don't spontaneously combust as they dry now that we've got our sheet dyed we're just going to come back in here and coat it really really well with fixing wax and I'm just going to put it on there heavy it's a little chilly out here this morning it's probably only in early low sixties probably so it's not real warm yet but I'll warm it up with my hands just like this and work it into the sheets really really well and that's going to give us number one it will give us that vintage look to the sheet but it will also very much protect this leather keep it nice and supple and usable for years to come and I like fixing wax for this it works really really well I make sure that I get the belt loop on the inside on the outside make sure I get the lip of the sheath on the inside and I just smear it in there and then working up my hand the heat from your hands will work that into the leather really really

that's generally what I do I do this with all my leather goods my AK sheets everything even my boots for the most part I use this fix and wax on and it just makes that leather really nice and soft and protects it really really well from the weather and for moisture and things like that there we go that's a beautiful dark brown coated and waxed sheath now okay now we just need to we tell our boy linseed oil dries under handle good and we can polish up the brass a little bit with a buffer we got a knife that is ready to use like it was brand new in the 70s okay well we got her finished up now and there's our finished knife we went ahead and sand the handle down and make it fit well on the sheath finished up everything he got even nice and close to the brass there like it's supposed to be coated it with boiled linseed oil and then went ahead buff the brass a little bit coating it with a light coat of oil as well we've taken our raw sheet completely stained in a dark brown now and covered it with a fixing wax and now we have an ambidextrous sheet and all actuality because it will go in there for a left-handed person or right-handed person and it fits solidly down to the bottom of the sheet like it's supposed to and it could be used for belt or net carry it's not a real heavy knife so I appreciate you guys joining me today for this video I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for school for our family and for business both of our sponsors instructors affiliates and friends and I'll be back with another video as soon as I can thanks guys