I inherited a Marbles knife from my Grandfather some 40 years ago. I is in about the same shape as yours was. Your video showed how to get the end cap off, which has kept me from restoring the knife. Thank you so much for the informative video. Thanks Bob

Looks great love how you made a tool to do the job, nice job my friend 👍

Great job my friend. I've come to the conclusion that where you live, the north east, you have access to the old tools, knives and just the old stuff we like to collect. That's because many years ago that's where it was made. I go to all the places where one would find these kind of things. But I hardly ever see the good stuff here in South Carolina. I watch your video where you go to tool swaps flee market's and the like. I'm drooling the whole time. About the only place I can see these great thangs is in your videos. And that is why I never miss one. And the fact that you are so entertaining and knowledgeable about these things. Thanks for sharing your talents my friend.

Love the tip using the bolt through the wood block in the vise.

For a good number of years I have been the happy owner of a 'New Era' make Marbles Woodcraft knife, produced in Gladstone, using original Marbles machinery. I was very interested in viewing and learning about what you were doing to refurbish an original knife. The remake does not have the 'gimping' filed into the top of the blade. This is the knife that Horace Kephart writes about, saying that he no longer needed to have a custom knife made to his preferred pattern. He (and I) like a 4.5-inch blade for doing almost all that needs to be done on a whitetail hunt and around the camp.

Just rediscovered my father's old Marbles knife; have not seen it for over 50 years but there it was in a vintage tool box; stacked leather with a badly chipped stag pommel - Your excellent advice will help restore it

👍 Nice job. I love these old Marbles knives.

Morning to you... even if it’s in the night... I’m an old Eagle Scout without a knife, going to start the search to find one like yours to refurbish, it will be a great winter project.. Thanks for the inspiration..... James

👍 Nice job. I love those vintage Marbles Woodcraft knives.

That's one of the most desirable Marbles Gladstone collector's knives ever made. All the good ole boys love this model. These were made in a variety of stag or leather handles with alluminum, bakelite and stag pommels. These knives fetch for some pretty high bids on eBay too. Great upload!

THANK YOU...for sharing.Watched and very much enjoyed.

Night shift guy here also... you are not alone, totally why I look forward to your videos great comprehensive clean up

Nice job on a really nice simple but good quality knife.

Made one of those tools before myself! 7:52 Vice grips?! Nope - Eifel plierench with a rubber band holding the handles together LOL! Actually works! After the 5 minutes of reading the brochure I got and learning the simple trick of how to adjust the jaws simply, I cannot tell you how much I use that plierench for! I know I have thanked uyou for introducing me to it before, but I have now had 4 different people see me using them and go on ebay to buy them! My mind is hardwired to the plierenches now! BTW - knife reminds me of one my grandfather once made out of a file. Great video John! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Beautifully done ScoutCrafter! It looks so much better now. Thanks for sharing this.

Hi, the old Marbles Woodcraft blade shape is one of my favorites, and I'm not alone in that I'm sure! I've never pulled any of mine apart and eas always curious how thick the actual tang was, and your video showed me all I need to know. (small kindling only; NO heavy batoning! ) 🙂 But my main point in commenting is that I believe what's happening is the leather wafers have dried out, along with the "compression" you menion over the years. Both create slop in the handle layup length. If I ever need to tighten one of mine up, I'll pull mine apart as you have done, but ONLY after putting a black magic maker line along the bottom of the handle, to help me from accidentally flipping each washer in at least one plane. Feeding them onto a 12" to 15" bamboo "Skewer" might be a good idea too, (taping off the skewer ends to keep them from falling off), and leave lots of room to work between the washers, while you do the following! Lay them out in a trough (akin to a Casino "Craps" table chips holder, and a water bottle icemaking tray might work?), to keep them from moving around while I treat each leather washer with a good coating of "Obenauf's Heavy Duty LP Leather Preservative" on BOTH sides and centers of each washer. Let the leather spacers absorb all they can over a few hours where they should swell as they absorb the treatment. Then begin to carefully feed all the spacers and leather washers back on in the same order as removed. (Black line at battom for them all) When you add the cap, it should now be tighter overall, and some squeezeout of the beeswax and other conditioners should be expected also. I'd give the outside of the handle another coating also, and it should last a very long time more. One added bonus of this treatmernt is this will also avoid any perseived shortening on the handle length by adding extra threads,... not always a worry but some of the Marbles knives can be a little skimpy in hand spacing already for my medium sized hand. 🙂

I can't believe what i actually said to myself this morning,i just finished cooking my breakfast,sausage,fried onions and mushrooms,some toast and egg,it sat for a second on the plate and i burst out with "i'm calling this project done", thanks Scout i'm officially an addict!!!

WOW beautiful job 👍 God bless you family and friends.

Good job John Very enjoyable restoration . I had to make a simular tool to take down some large old mirrors upstairs. Because I thought I would use them in decorating my bar downstairs .I made it by slotting a cheap old stubby screw driver . Then my girlfriend found out our neighbor was selling some old Miller and Budweiser wall mirrors pretty cheap in thier yard sale . I was going to put my old mirrors on Craigs list and make a couple hundred bucks from them, because you just can't find mirrors that size any more . But my Girlfriend stepped in again , saying an underprivilegde facebook friend was looking for mirrors like that . So I gave them. to them . They are poor and were very appreciative . It warmed my heart seeing how happy it made them . Made me feel more Happy than that $200. Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it LOL .

Sweet knife! I like the shape of that blade!

Nice looking knife Scout.I always learn something new when I watch your channel,you are the man!

Marbles such a great knife .. I had the Marbles axe as a scout that was presented to me by my grand father.. something he had picked up in the 1970s at a flea market. Great Job my friend..

Knife turned out very nice. I too am a knife collector. You can never have enough!

What a cool looking knife....i love the brass layers. Cheers

Good video. That knife cleaned up real decent. I think I might have been tempted to soak those leather parts in a leather preservative or leather oil and swell them up before reassembly. Might have made a little bit of difference in the snug factor and spacing on the tang protrusion and how much you had to file off. Way I hear it, the old leather washer shrink can be corrected to some degree with regular oil treatment. I'm getting a bad case of Marbles knife fever this week. Hope a Woodcraft comes my way.

Hi Scout , you did a great job on that knife, it's now ready for another lifetime of use lol, by the way that's the marbles knife Horace Kephart carried , and is illustrated in his book Camping and Woodcraft, if you haven't read it already it's well worth reading. This is a guy who lived by bushcraft before the word was even invented. If I remember corectely he said the woodcraft pattern knife was ideal for camp use ,and past his criteria for being able to slice bacon from a slab he carried, over here in the UK ,Sheffield used to produce lots of knives whith that type of build, cutlers like ,Nowel, Rodgers,George Wolstenholme IXL brand, to name a few, mostly all gone now I'm afraid, buy them while you can , and enjoy them. Best wishes ,Stuart.uk.

Great job. Your finger pointer cracks me up

Great job John on a piece of history you never cease to amaze me. That knife needs a good sheath to protect it.I too am a night owl. Can’t wait for Friday’s video have a good night or in our case a good morning.

Nice job! I love his match safes!!

Awesome job Scout! That turned out beautiful! I might have to dabble with some of my old knives now. Thanks for sharing.

Sold one just like it on eBay a couple of years ago. Great knife! I miss it. You did a nice fix and clean up 👍

Great channel 👍🇺🇸

Over here I call them Scout knives, nicely cleaned 👍

Awesome job!! See you using that screw wrench also! Super cool man!!

Scoutcrafter, that was a great project. I got excited when you got that cap off because at that point we could all see where you were going. A really cool knife that would be great in the woods... Super comfortable handle and usable blade... Anyway, thanks, as always, for sharing. Fun episode!

fantastic knife, great cleanup

Another nice job and informative....

Hi Scout. I live in Michigan. ...never heard of Marbles before. Would like to find one one day. What you made for tool is fine but just an idea you could make one out of an old poopey screw driver. Another thought to tighten things up and not have screw come through end of the handle would be to make/add another brass spacer at the end of the existing spacers. Probably would never notice it. Very nice job. Also glad you took handle apart so we can see the anatomy. As always, have a happy day!

Great project and it turned out awesome! I would of never have thought it was that old.

Great fix. Thanks!

...great resto, love the old working knives..good vid..

Thanks for fixing the grip the correct way (the way I would do it, lol). I've seen others do it in a questionable manner. I wish you had shown the cleaning up of the blade.

Thats a Beautiful knife. Great job on the clean up.

Great clean up, looks completely different. Just cleaned up one of my grandparent's vintage foot pumps on my channel, so satisfying when you put it together and see the end result

Very interesting and enjoyable. Thanks

Absolutely love that style of knife! What a job you did, especially on that back cap!

You inspired me to refresh my Grandfathers Marbles knife. Let you know how it turns out.

Great looking knife, turned out really nice. I recently found one for 2 bucks.

Scoutcrafter I pickup these old German-style knives whenever I can and go through the recondition steps you show here. It's uncanny how often you cover an issue I've bumped into - my latest knife has the same issue with the loose pommel cap and soon it won't. Love these knives - thanks for your great channel.

Great job, I always laugh when I see that pointer.

Back in 1976 my 8th grade metal shop teacher gave us students an assignment, build a knife like that from a file. I'm sure that type of class work is illegal now.

That came out beautifully!! Nice Work!

Awesome knife. Nice tear down and clean up.

My father-in-law had one of these knives stuffed in a drawer in his garage. It has seen better days! He passed away several years ago so every time I see it, I want to take it and give it a new life. Next time I go to his house, I’m going to grab it. You showed how beautiful that knife can look.

Great video. Enjoyed it!

Great job on the knife ScoutCrafter!!

Cool knife! Looks great. 👍🗡👍

Marbles? I think I had a knife or dad had one in the same, even with the loose cap! Great little tool you fabricated for it. Reminds me to do that with the switches in my truck!! Great video and great restore!

What a great restoration.It was very satisfying to watch the video. Merry Christmas

You have now inspired me to do mine. Thanks!

Just a quick one ha ha it’s always the famous last words and we All have been down that road for me every day ha ha .the knife Came up great John I gotta get me one they look real handy Fantastic video always learning from you god bless take care 🇺🇸👍🔧

Awesome job

Hi John , Nice Job on the Knife . It Reminds Me Of That K-Bar I Had . Nice Job on the Steps Too .

"There is a special tool for that, unfortunately I don't have it" I had never thought I would hear that one day ! If Santa is a subscriber...

I feel your pain, I worked on swing shift 1430-2300, most of my life. Now I am retired and my body keeps me on swing shift sleeping pattern. That knife turned out really nice.

Every time something really interesting, thanks sc

Very nice job😊

Very Nice Job!

This was one of my favorite restorations you've done, John. So many different little skills and techniques. Awesome job, buddy.

Great project.

That knife is cool, so are those axes, love to have one like it! Fun to see I'm not the only one whose projects always spirals out of control. Sorry to hear about your rhythm, I do like the mornings myself but I hate getting out of bed bout as much as I hate getting in it...

I really like your videos.

Nice work 👍🇺🇸

yes, subbed at 3:06, "i'm gonna put a little 50/50 acetone/atf..."great offhand tip for anyone facing stuck fasteners.

Marbles made good stuff in the old days. I have one of their nickel over brass match cases and a brass one that just says Boy Scouts of America that must be from the 30's or 40's. Their symplex tang peep site is just as famous. Glad you stripped it down and cleaned the tang. Most don't and it can be really rusty. Sometimes it takes a while to get the right mood to do a job. I have a Remington Pal RH - 36 from around WWII that I have to completely replace the stacked leather and spacers that I am putting off til after the first of the year. I put stuff on top of it so I don't see it. These have a pinned pommel that needs to be drilled out first. On the Marbles I have used a good quality snap ring pliers with replacement tips. A set of tips can be fitted. Making the tool is probably better because I misplace the tips. It's not like you use them often.

"Buggered up". Watch out SC, you'll be made an honourary Aussie if you keep that up. 😁👍🇦🇺

Great video thank you

i remember seeing those types of knifes, back in the 60's...great video, txs for sharing from Seattle the mecca for a bunch of non-union philanthropists

Yes! The pointy finger returns! Nice restoration job. Don't peen the end! just round it off or file it flush with the new "tight spot". Looks great.

My Grandfather was born in 1916, I have his Marble's compass.....Not sure how old it is but wouldn't surprise me if it was from the 40s.

Great looking blade

Nearly 40 years on nightshift so I know what you are dealing with, Excellent job on the knife

I have seen that style of knife before but was never in a position to buy one. I will have to keep an eye out for one

so beautiful

Night work is a killer. I used to drive and stockpile 12 hour nights. There were just 2 of us and we'd start when the day crew quit and quit when they started. Then came the weekends when we were either killed or bug eyed. Glad that's over but shifts were even worse what I can see and understand. Either you can sleep anytime or not at all. Ugg! Nice knife and cleanup. I have one of the safety hatchets and actually did a little cleaning on it. Marbles did good work. Thanks, CS and shine Smiley for me!

That's nice old knife like how you tightened up the handle

Nice job. I will get my Marble's out for you to see.

GROWING UP IN MICHIGAN I AM THE PROUD OWNER OF ONE OF THERE AXES

Kewl video sweet knife

You’d make a good Aussie mate. You’ve already got some of the lingo, “Buggered up”! You cracked me up. Only issue with becoming an Aussie is we have to wait a day for your videos because it’s Tuesday here when you release “Mish Mosh Monday “. You’d confuse all your mates in the states. Thanks for the knife video. I had one of those as a kid but it’s been lost somewhere in the last 60 years. Always had trouble with the handle coming loose. 🇳🇿👍🏻

Good video brother

Nice custom tool. I might have made one out of a sacrificial cheap (Harbor Freight) needle nose pliers.

Beautiful restore job. As for that knife I've seen them at gun abd knife shows with some pretty salty price tags on them

That knife really came out super. - Kathie

Very nice. I'll have to reexamine the old knives in my mom's kitchen. That looks like one my dad wouldn't let me touch. He used it for cutting meat to make home ground hamburger. Thanks for the interesting video content!

I just inherited one of these in pretty good condition, needs cleaned up a bit

very cool way ti fit the handle on

Scout Crafter Just adding your not alone with your nights are screwed up --I also worked swing shifted .

Different subject - wedges. I was in Harbor Freight today and noticed their hammers, axes, etc - use round wedges. Wider handles used two round 'wedges'. Never noticed that before.

well done Scout.