Knife restoration - Vintage Pontus Holmberg survival knife

[kwakster]

Restoring older knives is one of my hobbies, and i think this one came out rather well.
No Tormek involved, all regrinding/sharpening was done by hand on a bench stone and refining on wet & dry paper.
The knife is a made in Sweden Pontus Holmberg first model survival knife for the Swedish Air Force, made between 1948 and 1952.

This is how the knife looked when i bought it:





And this is how the knife looks now.
Blade has been hand reground/reshaped to it's original full convex shape, and in the handle the rotted leather midsection was replaced with new leather.
Sheath was also hand restitched and waxed.

[Stovepipe]

That's an amazing restoration. You should put some of that energy toward autos where your rewards would be off the chart. Again - well done!!!