A neighbor dropped a knife blank off the other day. It was in pretty bad shape from being in a house fire, but it took some beating. All he wanted me to do was remove the surface rust and the shallow pits. The handle is Ironwood.
The temper was pretty much shot, and I'm not sure how great of one it had to begin with. He didn't want to spend much on it so I cleaned it up for him and put on some new handles. Its more so a conversation piece than a user.