Thread: First full restore

So I have a friend who had a straight that was his great grandfathers and hr recently asked me to restore it but leave it looking antique but usable. Like a dummy I didn't take pictures until I had unpinned it and cleaned up the blade. The whole thing was toast and had it been a eBay buy I would've required payment from the seller to even take it. But most damage was surface crusties. And some light rust. However the frown was bad. Look at this.

So I then went about shaping the blade by scribing the curve of the spine using the highest point in the frown as my baseline. Once that was straightened I reshaped the heel to try and get the shoulder out of the way. And ended up with this.