Thread: Old bayonet knife...ID, value, restoration?

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

the discs that go on angle grinder that look like polypad/plastic string,will derust that without taking metal off.....please give it a good clean up and have decent look at it before getting all drastic.would be a very good kitchen carving knife that would be sure to start conversation.... if you want a filleting knife,go buy a new one,cheap as chips .

Yeah...nah. No powertools going near this.
I actually already have filetting knives, that was said tongue-in-cheek.

I have got the handles/scales and the rust off, unearthed a couple of (serial?) numbers, filed back a bit of shape into the spine/blade.

Metal is very soft, but the hilt and pommel are brazed/sweated on, so I'm going to have to be particular about heat treating it... I will grab and post some photos of the numbers if that will help with Age/ID.
One of the stamps looks like an impossibly poorly struck 2, or something greek (a reversed lower-case delta), but not in their alphabet nor on any proof-house chart I've seen