Reconditioning this cheap Winchester Bowie

If the handle is still solid, just stain it and rub eezox on it. You can refurnish it if it's wrecked.

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If the wood isn't sealed by lacquer, you can simply dip that handle in linseed oil and let it soak for a while. This will draw into the wood and lift the grains on the surface that aren't solid. Remove them by using sand paper (fine medium coarseness). Repeat that a few times until there's no grains left protruding when soaking. Then use fine sand paper and make it smooth. You'll have a grip that is good to grip on, doesn't slip and is less likely to give you blisters.

As for the metal, use something to remove the rust and keep that blade oiled with almost anything. A thin layer of oil prevents rust for the most part. Also wipe or clean the blade after using it on wet and corrosive things, such as food.

As for the grind, I'd not fumble around too much with that unless you know what you are doing. There's simple knife grinders that have this V shape that you can use. Just draw the blade through that a couple dozen of times and you should get a very decent grind. Having a somewhat flat point on a knife is something I'd prefer, since you are a lot less likely to injure yourself, yet can practically still do all the work with it.

>>34776912
>The very tip is broke but I think I can put a new edge on it with my wetstone.
No, wrong. I don't know anything about restoring any of that, getting rid of rust or your handle. Cheap knives are fucking great though, you're wasting your time if you want to fix that with a wet stone, that's for honing the edge. File off the shit in front of the chip so it's uniform to whatever is behind it. Then take the stone to it to touch it up. It's a fuck ton of material use a file if you want to spend hours at it, otherwise get a friend with a belt grinder or figure out how to set up a grind wheel. I've gone full retard/autistic trying to make knives with hand tools a job like that it's not insane to use a file but if it's a spinning wheel that can grind down material at all you can do it in minutes what is going to take for fucking ever by hand. Stones just for making it look nice, if it's a cheap knife just file it down it's uniform metal in consistency and not a wedge of cutting edge type steel for the blade and softer stuff everywhere else that it doesn't matter if you grind it down. Cheap knives are great for learning about what to take off because anything is a shiv if you grind it enough. Once you grind it then take stones to it you start to notice between when it's getting dull a lot easier. There are times I take a file to my dull knives before I even bother with a stone just to get the right angle. I don't even like doing it to nice knives. You already got the rest of the cut set up that going at it aggressively you're not going to ruin the entire blades angle even if you tried.

>>34776912
Use grape jelly and some sandpaper. The jelly help trust me