Reconditioned.

[SamHuntVic]

I'm not a knifemaker but I admire those who have the skills to do this work.

I'm more of a knife hoarder, I can't bear to throw a knife away but this one should have gone into the big bin.

It's an old Taiwan made kitchen knife which was really hard to keep an edge on, was badly stained and had some pitting.

As I said I just couldn't chuck it without some attempt at reconditioning, so here it is.

The wooden handle was stained and had residual dirt or grease on it so I rubbed it down back to some proper colour.

Secured the blade in a vice and took to it with a chainsaw file to attempt to make a serrated carving blade. Polished the blade and gave the wood the good old Tru Oil treatment.

The filing of course was without any guide and the variations can easily be seen. As I got to half way I discovered what I had done by accident. I was creating a right handers carving knife, so from halfway, filing towards the handle I put a little angle on the serration to give it a type of chainsaw action on the forward stroke. It's now a razor sharp 350mm carver.

Not a beautiful work of art, but I saved this blade from the bin and I'll test it on the roasts at the Gatta.

Grant.

[Duncs]

That's the biggest mongrel of a bread knife I've ever seen!!

[gafloss]

You are obviously expecting the roasts to be tough this year.

[optic]

Good effort Grant. That thing looks like it will cut through bone.