A while ago I acquired a numbered Gerber boot knife dagger someone butchered up . See pics. Anyone in OKC metro area recommended that can spiff it up ? Thanks
You might also talk to Gerber about it.
Looks like somebody in the military carried and used it and miraculously without breaking the tip. Finishing a knife is the expensive part. It will never appear as factory, and for a user you might just work out edge nicks, and if bound and determined to improve looks, draw file/flat sand/elbow grease polish. That's an older armorhide(sp?) model is it not? It's worth more in current shape than if you improve it.
IDK about collectible part. I guess I can get on a Gerber forum, and research by the number on it.. interesting comment that polishing it may decrease value.
On any out of print item, the more that is original and which survives, the more folk want it and pay for it....when something is refinished, everything is suspect because nobody knows what it was trying to hide, or even suspect maker...think of either a blotchy old original gun with everything as it left the factory past the wear, versus one polished over, marks blurred or erased and with shiny new blue....which one would you want? If you prefer the second choice then have at it, as plenty of nicer ones survive, and you make even worn unmolested ones worth a tiny bit more by taking another out of circulation. I have no idea of current older Gerber values but do know the older ones with aluminum handles with plastic coating have gotten a lot more desired and valued as older folk remember them, wish they'd kept theirs, and try to find another, and some of those folk can't afford the higher condition numbers.
PS- personally I'd rather have that one than NIB, because I'd not dare risk scratching/devaluing the collector grade, while with yours I could work out edge nicks and have a sound blade that I could play with and stab cardboard all day long and not devalue it at all while reliving youth.
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