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Wade,,, just Wade,, in Mammoth
Seems I'm on an Ivory roll lately. Except this is in Mammoth Ivory. I happened to grab two 4 X 6 slabs that were bookmatched. I cut one scale from each slab to try and have a matching set. It still boggles my mind thinking about this and then seeing it on my bench. Very cool.
These slabs don't have the typical fissures and cracks but instead look like petrified slabs of wood. Some who know better than me said they are quite rare and are typical of pieces found in Russia. I certainly have no clue about such things.
The blade had some of the typical issues but came up nicely.
Never saw one simply stamped Wade. Hopefully someone here can chime in and add some history.
We decided to follow the design of the original Ivory scales. But instead of using the original wedge , and keeping it all "natural" I used a black horn piece. Triple and double stacks complete the pinning. The blade apparently had a high polish so I followed this as well.
I had to be especially careful ( and couldn't do much) with the etch across the spine which reads in a very shallow etch, Magnum Bonum