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Restore a Swiza D03 Pocket Knife

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I recently bought a second hand Swiza D03 pocket knife to clean it and repair it. The knife was in a shameful state, dirty and with the blade badly deformed because of very bad sharpening. I paid 7 euros for it and I wanted to restore it with simple tools. All I have used is a small file and sand paper 600, 1500 and at the end 2000 grit, along with four hours of work. The Swiza D03 to restore The blade was in a poor state. As you can see in the picture the tip of the reamer was also broken. The first thing I did was to take the scales apart. To do so, I used my Victorinox pocket knife Camper can opening tool, so here you have a Victorinox repairing a Swiza pocket knife. I washed it with a brush in hot water and soap and then disinfected the thing with bleach. Then I rinsed it throughly very well. The Swiza D03 with the scales off and tweezers. I had to reshape the reamer with a file to give it the minimum operation state, which I did. Then I reshaped the tip of the blade with the file