You know , if you part out a dag to make a profit, not a good story...if you replace a dag with replacement parts to upgrade its look, its not original and not worth much so they are dead dags either way in my eyes. Bottom line, who is going to be the collector of all the beaters??? You wouldnt want them in your collection, theres really no appeal to a beat up dagger. Nothing lasts forever.Anyway there is plenty of "History" still foating around,some find offensive some not. What if all the , you know who's, bought all the dags and destroyed them? Its that persons right in this country. Anyway a beater is a beater is a beater.....nothing you can do to make it new, or original.