Thread: Red horned Greaves .

Originally Posted by Ernie1980

That's more of a smile than I see on most of the Victorian blades, it looks nice! The color is those scales is great, a lot different than the usual Browns and blacks

Preeeeetty sure that's not a Victorian-era blade. Looks early 1830's tops to me.

And also a lovely restore! But Pups is good at that.

I had to take some off the toe and the hook out of the heel and what's in the pics is a result of all that blended back to the middle. I got the geometry right now. I am going through the gymnastics of getting it honed up. It's was coming out even and the middle was still not meeting. I finally got a test shave out of it but I am not feeling the soul yet. Doing it during smoke breaks when I am not drooling over my new toy.

Zak , you should remember this blade. It's the 1 I was going to leave the red patina on and just hone it up :<0)

Originally Posted by 10Pups

I had to take some off the toe and the hook out of the heel and what's in the pics is a result of all that blended back to the middle. I got the geometry right now. I am going through the gymnastics of getting it honed up. It's was coming out even and the middle was still not meeting. I finally got a test shave out of it but I am not feeling the soul yet. Doing it during smoke breaks when I am not drooling over my new toy.

Zak , you should remember this blade. It's the 1 I was going to leave the red patina on and just hone it up :<0)

Oh yeah! That one!

I really like how you left it as-is for your restore!

I like the red horn that baby really pops