- Hey everybody, it's me, Jen.
And I love knives.
Kristin why are you staring at me?
- 'Cause you started talking to yourself.
Also, you're pretty.
- Shut up, you stop it.
Welcome back, it's me, Jen.
Lately, I've noticed that a lot of people are doing
like, "get ready with me"
or make-up routine tutorial videos.
I think that's really cool.
I don't have much to say about my make-up routine.
It's pretty basic, but I actually am trying
to get into the hobby of collecting old knives.
And a lot of these knives come in pretty crappy conditions.
So, my goal over the next few days is to
get a knife and then try
and make it go from shitty to pretty.
When it comes to restoring pocket knives I am an amateur.
I don't know that much,
but I am pretty excited to get down to business
and give it a try.
In particular, this tiny little pocket knife
that I found at an antique store in Joshua Tree.
It's really small, it's like, maybe 2 inches.
The blade is, like, barely an inch.
Based on the markings on the blade
I know that it's made of some kind of stainless steel,
but there's too much dirt and grime on there
for me to be able to read that much into it.
I will lay out my tools for you right now.
In front of me, I have metal polish cream,
an all purpose gun and metal cleaner.
Penetrating oil.
I also have a sharpening stone with some sharpening fluid,
and I have a brass brush.
The final piece to all of this
is, of course, some sandpaper.
I did look up a couple of tutorials online.
You can find this information, basically, on Reddit
or if you Google "how to restore an old pocket knives"
there's tons of sites that let you know how to do it.
Most of them suggest cleaning the blade
with just a little bit of water.
And the idea behind this is just to get rid of
any mud that's easy to remove.
The next step, after we've wiped the blade down,
is I'm going to spray it with some penetrating oil.
The point of this is to just make sure
that we can get out any rust or dirt
from the joints of the blade.
So, now that we've added the penetrating oil to the blade,
we're going to use some of this metal gun cleaner
and some sandpaper and we're gonna go to town on the blade.
It makes a horrible sound, you really just gotta keep at it.
Oof, didn't cut myself.
Be careful, also, that's an important step to all of this.
Please be careful.
The blade, believe it or not, as dirty as it still is,
is actually much cleaner than it was
when I first started.
So, slowly but surely we are making a difference.
After about fifteen minutes of sanding down this thing
there are still a fair amount of stains on here,
but that's kinda to be expected
and at this point the knife is just
so much better than what it was, I'm gonna call it a day.
The next thing, is to just see
if I can sharpen it up a little bit.
It is pretty dull.
When I bought it, it couldn't really cut through cardboard.
Now, if you push a little bit it will,
but I think we can probably get it a little bit sharper.
I've never used a sharpening stone before.
So, we are going to go through this together.
Apparently, I'm suppose to apply
a thin layer of honing solution.
So, this apparently is a little guide so that
I can properly find an angle at which to sharpen the blade.
I lay the blade flat along the guide.
I push it along the edge of the stone.
Obviously, you can't tell just by looking at it,
but this one side of the blade is a lot sharper
than it was when we started.
So I'm gonna switch this around and sharpen the other side.
The knife is sharpened.
It's a lot sharper than it was when I started.
Obviously, the blade is still a little bit dirty,
but I'm gonna apply just a little bit of polish to it
and hopefully it'll start looking a little bit more glam.
One last final thing,
actually, it's pretty useful to have a knife,
'cause I can't get this bag open.
And, yeah, there you have it.
A much better than once we started pocket knife.
Alright, cool.
It makes a good birthday gift.
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