This knife was lost for months outside (in the street I believe) and when found it had suffered from some pretty deep rust pitting, a broken tip, and the handle was crunched - looked like it was run over.
I don't normally work on other US knifemaker's knives (FYI - there's an unwritten code about this) I was hesitant to accept it but I owed the owner some bartering and he was already here at my place with the knife when he showed it to me so I figured I'd do what I could so long as I did not alter Devin's work in any way, shape, or form. The idea was to bring the knife back to as close to possible to original condition while preserving what Devin put into the knife to begin with. For this reason some pitting was left alone as I felt to remove it would have meant to violate the above listed principles. I think in the end it came out nice and simply looks like a used knife that has been cleaned up.
I don't normally work on other US knifemaker's knives (FYI - there's an unwritten code about this) I was hesitant to accept it but I owed the owner some bartering and he was already here at my place with the knife when he showed it to me so I figured I'd do what I could so long as I did not alter Devin's work in any way, shape, or form. The idea was to bring the knife back to as close to possible to original condition while preserving what Devin put into the knife to begin with. For this reason some pitting was left alone as I felt to remove it would have meant to violate the above listed principles. I think in the end it came out nice and simply looks like a used knife that has been cleaned up.