Extremely Rusty WW1 Pocket Knife Restoration (Haunted House Find)
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- Опубликовано: 24 фев 2021
- Restoration of a very old, rusty Okapi / Navaja style Pocket Knife from a Haunted house in Sheffield England.
I do my best to create a beautiful finish on this old tool and add an elegant Yew wood handle. See the fresh outcome!
Some of the Processes in this restoration include Electrolysis, Sanding, Sharpening, Buffing, Polishing, grinding, cutting, sawing, slicing.
THE KNIFE
The style seems to be similar to that of the traditional Navaja type Spanish Knives but I cant tell for sure as markings were rusted away. I've been told that The French and germans made these 'Ring pull' knives, inspired by the Navaja after the French Troops returned from the Peninsula Campaign around the time of Napoleon. It was found in a dilapidated, rotting old house, lived in by a man who was purported to be insane. He boarded up all of the windows of his own home at least 30 years ago and lived like a squatter on the wooden floor of one of the rooms in the house.
The knife lay beside a cut throat razor and a 1907 pattern WW1 British Bayonette in a similar state of disrepair.
The blade and spine are extremely pitted but there's still live in it yet!
What do you think?
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Amazing grit work good job man
That handle took a lot of patience. Great job on that.
Beautiful knife
Fantastic job!
Thank you very much!
woahhhh, gobsmacked!
Thank you so much
Ooh, a whetstone, and a nagura! You know your stuff. Very nice restoration!
Muy buen trabajo 👌👍🇪🇸
I have got its twin . Great work man!
Thanks mate
Very nice!
Thanks
Very kool
Nice work
Excellent! Subscribed!
Thanks Hugh, hope I can provide you with some great value
Hello mister beautiful knife beautiful restoration good job
Thanks Vince!
Amazing Wes, love it
Gee thanks :)
Excelente 👌🏼
Thank you
Wow ,that haunted knife looks good 🤣🤣.
A range of skills shown here and a high quality outcome. Well done mate. Keep em coming!
Cheers matt, not quite the outcome I'd have liked but about as good as I could make it.
A beautiful old French folding knife. I have several similar in my collection....
French you say? Any idea of the name/ style? I'd only seen the Spaish style and thought it looked similar.
@@wjlacey yep, French for sure. The story goes that French troops returning from the penninsula campaign brought the Spanish navaja home with them in significant quantities and that’s what inspired this type of ring-pull knife. The French maker Mongin specializes in this type. You can find them for sale on Maison Berthier’s web site.
It’s German made discontinued about 1982 in Germany and the factory moved to South Africa it’s very very famous in the Middle East countries have a lot of names khoga, karn ghazal but the factory name is okabi
It's an Okapi knife, German/South African, not French.
german knife *
I suspect the new handle is better than the original ever was. Bravo. Great woodworking.
Thanks Ian
عمل ممتاز good job .bon travail
Y love job !
I have the same knife in egypt we call it deer horn penknife it’s very popular here but the original ones are very rare and expensive
Excellent work by the way 👌
I think the original knife was made by the brand OKAPI.
???????
Thanks very much!
@@user-wu2nk7ey3p yeah and it's garmin knife
but he didn't say it's egyptian knife he say he had one and it's really very popular knife in egypt. we know it's okapi but we call it deer horn!!
good job sir
Best of South African knife
Fantastic work and fantastic skill - congrats
As a blacksmith and knife maker I would have pulled patterns from that before the excellent restoration job.
Your work in this knife si osm
YEW made a beautiful knife handle.😄
Super Punny :)
Good job! :)
So rusted, worn and abused, it couldn’t possibly be salvaged, let alone restored. And yet, every time, you work some kind of magic! 🤟👌
Wow, that's high praise indeed. Thank you very much. I have quite the Perfectionist mindset and wasn't happy at all with the outcome. I'll continue to strive for that image I have. Thanks again!!
c'est la navaja Espagnole, avec sa palenquilla de sécurité! belle vidéo! great job!
Merci beaucoup.
Parece una navaja española de anilla. La de palanquilla es distinta :)
@@mov2005 سكين إفريقي
Great work. Quality steel in knives back then.
I found a straight razor in an abandoned house 45 years ago. It was probably 60 years old before I found it. I have other similar razors but can never seem to get them shaving sharp ,unfortunately.
Thanks man. If you haven't already subscribe! Next video is a straight razor antique.
@@wjlacey ,I was on the look out for it but didn't manage to see it.
Can you give me the episode number so I can really check it out.
Cheers mate.👍👍
@@christopherorourke2168 it's not up yet. Will be up in next couple of weeks.
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Have you tried using a strop?
Good job. The Yew wood is beautiful, but i think some antler, (stag, elk, buck,) would make that old knife look really good. Just a thought.
Cut Throat is next Video and it does have antler! :)
Www.. amazing 👍👍👍
Thanks!
Respect
Looks amazing 😊
Ah, thank you :)
من السعودية KSA👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼💖
NileRed did a video about making transparent wood. He explains the chemistry and the process very well and shows his failed attempts, if you still are curious about the transparent wood :)
I also did some research on this interesting locking mechanism the knife uses. If you google french trench folding knife, you'll find many similar knives, which may indicate where this one came from. Also a more recent example of this mechanism is the Lierenaar knife by Robert Herder
Thanks very much for the info and your input. I'll check em out.
Great save. I would have liked to have seen the original handle impregnated with wood stabiliser and kept but your replacement Yew handle sure is beautiful. Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺
Love the restoration job. Great !
Thanks
okapi knife, used to be made in germany and stopped in 1988 i think. good knifes.
GOOd
Is an excelent job, this type of folder pocket knife need a shackle in the spring, in order to help the action of folding the blade.
yes i wasn't aware at the time of making this. thank you.
You need to place knife back original spot where you find it after restorations , the dead "owner" will come haunt you down if you don't.
But it will thank her an the other hand
I inherited a similar knife, which my late father bought in Europe in 1975... Okapi .. Made in Germany. Still in good condition.
Great to hear, I wouldn't mind a new one of these.
are you intrested in selling?
nice job
Thank you! Cheers!
Keep on keeping on. Nice video. I'm a bit of a collector of old folding knives. Its interesting to watch these restorations. 👍
Thanks a lot mate.
I'd be happy to restore any for you free of course (just for filming) and pass back to you.
@@wjlacey cheers i'll bear that in mind as soon as I can get to the boot fairs again lol. Seriously, thanks for the offer.
قرن غزال 😍
That is an Okapi knife. I have in my posession the same model. Excellent condition.
Yeah! I have same navaha tipe
This is okapi the best German knifes ever
Search again this is South African 🇿🇦
Молодчага👍👍👍
Thanks for sharing... I think if you managed to restore and keep the original handles then it will be even more beautiful.
That's a good idea! Thanks for watching
Dude awesome Wesley! I didn't know you had such a killer youtube world going on. Great to follow you here!
Hey man thanks a lot. You too. Hope you're well mate.
Found a folding knife on Big Brown (Brown's lower pond) not really that old - but an eerie gift from the Adirondacks
Ghost is in this knife man😂
أحسنت عمل متقن
شكرا لك
What’s the solution you put on the cutting stone
Excelente, congratulations
good job
Thanks
Okapi knife❤️
Great and interesting video Wesley..that was unreal work to get that knife to look like that..the wood you used, is that native wood around where you live? Was the haunted house near you?
Yew, its a real special/ rare wood. Technically its a soft wood but its harder than many hardwoods. All parts of the tree are deadly poisoness. Its bad luck to chop one down and they're usually found on graveyards. I do love a bit of Yew. The Haunted house was about 20 minutes away. Really, really creepy inside! Thanks for everything!
So how did you establish the knife is WW1?
very nice work 👍👍👍
Thank you! Cheers!
أنا مشترك جديد من العراق واحب اعمالك الرائعة
شكرا لك. جميل أن أسمع وأرحب على قناتي
you are welcome
هلو
An Okapi? Or an Okapi Kopy? I found one for 10$ in a flea market. After a little cleaning up I oiled the wood and sharpened the blade. Thin carbon steel...you can shave with the thing in a pinch. They still make 'em though they come from South Africa now, not Germany. You made a great vid here!
Thanks so much
Nice Job, I think that particular knife is called an okapi based on the shape and mechanism
Yes it is. And it was from WW1. What a history thise knives have.
Looks like an Okapi knife. The hole in the lock is for a key ring so you can easily release the mechanism. They come from South Africa.
Correction. They were made in Germany up u til early '80's when tgey sold the brand to a SA company. Quality now is shocking.
I like,the locking mechanism I'm going to copy it on my own knife I'm making. 👍
Simple but effective and decorative.
Nice, I'd wonder how they make it into spring steel i.e. materials and heat etc Good luck
@@wjlacey I have some locking internals I can use.
Wow good
Thank you
@@wjlacey 🥰❤️
tolle arbeit
Danke
I want to buy it !
عمل رائع
Jammin out to Air Supply, respect my man!
Stopped watching ... Can't get passed the blue finger nail polish!!!💥
Was my daughters doing. Do what feels right ey. Thanks for the view. Sorry to hear of your inflexible mindset.
اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه اجمعين
no thanks mate
It’s Okabi a German made folding knife
Moved to South Africa after 1982
You aren't the only one to say that. Thanks so much for the input. I'll definitely bear it in mind. Shame we will never know completely
Sorry but its not Okapi.
Okapi knife has a few "teeth" on tang round end of the blade.
I have 10
@@sergeiokatieff1060 He ground it off with the belt sander.
Nice work! You have yourself a new subscriber :)
That's great to hear thanks.
@UCDeAfZAkVkoJtxUblU5OjzA باستخدام مترجم جوجل. فقط أقول شكرا لك.
biastikhdam mutarjim jujlun. faqat 'aqul shukraan lika.
Okapi - cheap South African knife. Very often used by skinners (hunters) because of the soft metal blade and easy to sharpen. Unfortunately also the most popular stabbing instrument in this country, causing trauma-hospitals to overflow. These days the handle is made of a sort of plastic. I had my first one in the early 1960's. Kind regards.
That's interesting Hennie thanks. Sad about it being used as a weapon. I've looked and looked at this handle. I still think it's wood but I've had a couple saying it's horn.
@@wjlacey - The older models were wood. The later (not so well made) ones used plastic. Regards
@@henniebasson515 not all of them are plastic. Okapi makes both wood and plastic options. Check out their website (admittedly a terrible website lol). Ordered one delivered to PE just a few weeks ago. Great, inexpensive knife
I was in the South African police in the early 90's. Very true that these knifes were used as weapons. Most probably 99% of all the stabbings I investigated involved the Okapi, sadly most of them turned out to be murder investigations. I have a couple of them in different sizes. Awesome very cheap knife.
@@wjlacey The Okapi was created in Germany in 1901 for their colonies. Brand sold to an SA company in the early 80's.
Poor quality now.
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Oh My God ... No Fliping Way .... I'm Jamaican and that knife you restored is a cultural icon known as a rachet or in patios " a Rachick" ......... reach out to a Jamaican and they can tell you all about it
Fr mi g, Jamaica National knife dat😂
On Wikipedia it mentions Germany, South Africa and Jamaica. Is it something you saw often in Jamaica then? I'm interested, have any stories to share?
Very cool.Good Video.👌👏👌
Thank you 👍
I used to have this type of knife but i lost it somewhere
Класс👍👍👍👍
Do you think the spirits from the Haunted House is attached to that knife?
@11:10 can you please tell me the polish you used for the wood here, I was cleaning an old knife of mine and over did it with a sanding paper that the polish layer went off, would appreciate it if you told me what you used here, thanks
Birchwood casey tru oil. Prick the top, apply to fingertip and then use finger to wipe on wood, tiny amounts at a time.
Appreciate it man
Fabulous video !! Congratulations! A query with what liquid do you revive natural wood, did that liquid give the wood a surprising color 11:13? what substance is it? Thanks!!
Professional, I just want to buy a knife or a ring. Greetings
Nice and neat work, but if you leave the original wood
I love everything you did to bring that knife back to life, the process and the outcome. It's all beautiful! I absolutely love that Yew handle. Awesome work, good job!
Thanks very much for such a nice comment.
It's a good knife
Thanks
What a great design, not seen that before, I suppose there is no knowing where it comes from🤔
Yeah I've heard, Germany, France, Spain and South Africa so who knows!
Search for okapi knives
@@ahmadhm1303 that’s great, many thanks👍👍
Wonderful job!!!
I like the oatina
Cool
Just two questions
Why nobody took care of that old man?
And why is your saw so rusty, restoration man?:)
Thank you
Also, the saw is rusty as I usually keep it outside in the shed. Don't normally have much use for it. It's not really part of my workshop. As for the man. No idea. I don't know enough to be able to tell you.
That knife we still made it on Algeria 🇩🇿 bro
Egypt too
@@abdosheriff0928 and greece too👍✌👌🇬🇷(called:sougias σουγιας)
Boseb3a 🇩🇿🔥
Where I could buy it?
مسمهاش ناايف دي الخوجه قرن الغزال يخلق🙂😂
👍👍👍
Btw this is a deer horn not wood and you need to add a ring on the hole to make it easy for open and close
Looked and acted a lot like wood to me. I'll have another look
Tender love and care
Thanks
This knife was made in algerai bro . The 3 star
قرن غزال اطوح بيها يمين وشمال 🤣
👍