Old Swedish Knife Restoration

I found and restored an old Swedish knife. When I received it, knife was in terrible condition, very rusty and wooden surface was damaged and cracked. At that moment I was not able to read the markings on the Swedish knife’s blade, but after removing the surface rust I red markings: KJ Mora Sweden. Krång-Johan Eriksson was a founder of this brand in 1912 in Sweden and all knives produced by his brand have markings KJ Mora Sweden. Knife manufacturing was basic and in small quantities. Original name for this knife is Morakniv (Mora kniv), ‘Mora’ is a place in Sweden where all knives are produced and ‘kniv’ means a knife. I was not sure that this Swedish knife was that close to 100 years old, but after short researching, sure is. That was a nice surprise! Anyway, I started by disassembling the Swedish knife and removing rust from the knife’s blade. Then I used a Swedish file to remove outer layer from knife’s handle, pure coincidence! Sanding I left for later and jumped straight on hand crank grinder to gri