If you have an access to a flat bead scanner, scan the knife in the need of repairs / refurbishing in JPG or GIF or PNG  format, and have it ready to attach it to your reply. Keep the size of each picture under 200k if possible      I start all the service work as soon as possible, usually the same night as the item arrives, and try to finish the repair within a day or two.     The bulk of my repair work mostly consists of extensive handle repairs, including pins/spacers/scale replacement, and occasionally a total change of a handle design, folder springs and repairs, and some stainless welding where possible. Total refurbishing consists of stripping the knife to it's individual components, total blade regrind, sand and polish all parts, replace what is needed, and after all is put together, final buffing and sharpening to a razor edge. Common, or special editions of Kitchen and Chef's knives refurbishing - sand away and polish most sharpening scratches, stains and rust. Reshape broken off blade tips, replace old delaminated or damaged wood handles with top quality hardwoods, replace cheap Aluminum rivets with Nickel Silver ones. I glue down all new scales so no water can get to the tang and destroy the handle with rust from inside. Replace leather washer type WW-2, marine and Kabar handles with new leather washers, all glued together this time and on cleaned metal. There are around 32 leather washers on the handle, roughly one quality leather belt. You can supply your own to save $10. Used your pommel as a hammer? Will sand away all dents and polish to a mirror finish. Flat or hollow grinding for getting the used up fat edge to a new, working thickness. If the blade is supper rusty, or have very deep rust pits, it will require considerably more time and resources to make it look presentable again. 90% of all repairs required the total regrind. There is no guarantee that I will be able to remove all the rust pits, since some can go right through the blade, or be too deep to sand away. Sorry, can't repair molded plastic, or molded rubber handles A large portion of old cutlery was manufactured out of plain hard carbon steel, then chrome plated. Any re shaping, like broken off tips, requires that the blade be correctly tapered /thinned and polished. The chrome plating will be polished off, there is no way around it. The blade will stain. The only option is to have it re-chromed after, at the Chrome plating shop near you, or just put up with cleaning it with Comet/Ajax after use. Folder repairs To refurbish the folder, it has to be taken down, pried and broken apart, hopefully without damaging liners or bolsters beyond repair. Even if you knife is in brand new, or mint condition without a blemish, and you would like only a scale replaced, the folder has to be taken totally apart. The new scales has to be glued on, and then riveted to liners - riveting means forming heads on both ends of the pins with the hammer - one head visible on the outside of the scale, the other is ground flush in a countersunk hole on the inside. Refurbishing consist of total disassembly - cleaning, polishing the liners, back spring/lock bars, sanding, polishing and sharpening all blades, sanding flat inside of old scales for the perfect fit. Scales get glued on this time, and are secured with new pin rivets. All main new pins are machined to fit and riveted to smooth blade action without slop. I can make you a new blade if you are unable to get the replacement from the manufacturer. The shape will be close to the original, but no markings on it and without the nail slot. I can cut a rectangular, straight slot if absolutely necessary. I use 440-C, hardened and tempered to about 59 RC, for blades and springs, but will use other materials, if requested, available, or supplied by you. Another option is to find another knife - at garage sales or auctions, same model with needed parts intact or in better shape than yours, than use it for the replacement parts. The basic cost of scales includes only any of the exotic woods I have on hand. Speciality scales like MOP, Abalone, Turtle, Fossil or mammoth Ivory etc will cost you extra. No real Elephant Ivory, legal or preban can be transported to foreign country, choose from many alternatives. You can save quite a few dollars by getting your special scales yourself, than mailing them with the knife.    Customer comments on my repair

NOTICE!! Switchblades or Automatic knives, Gravity knives in Canada are classed as a prohibited weapons. Possession, manufacture, sales, repairs, handling and transfer are subject to a Canadian Criminal Code (Bill C68) Switchblade knives in most states in the USA are against the law to carry or repair since 1957. So most companies that could repair such knives do not. The law treats switchblades as contraband, and made it illegal to transport automatic knives across state lines. You may be able to find an individual in the USA that can and will repair your knife, but do not count on it. Any such prohibited knives can, and will be confiscated by Customs if shipped cross borders, and the shipper can be fined and prosecuted to the boot. Knife laws in the USA - - Canadian Act respecting firearms and other weapons - Bill C68

Do not store your knives in their sheath, condensation leaches out remnants of tanning acids from leather, and causes much rust..

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