First Restoration--W&B Celebrated!

[jseitz]

It took me several months, but I finally completed my first restoration (along with a couple others that I'll post in the workshop). I started out asking questions about how to tackle the blade, and then boned up on scale making (pretty much followed Karlej's tutorial on the subject) and then learned how to pin the thing all together. Blade was hand sanded down to 600 and then back up to 3000 finished with Mothers. Scales are black horn and a faux ivory wedge (still need to work on getting the wedge shape). Finished in double stacked washers. Constructive feedback welcome! I thought that learning how to hone (which I'm still practicing) was satisfying, but this was immensely satisfying on a whole other level. I would encourage others to try their hand--I'm a lawyer by day and don't necessarily consider myself a craftsman by any means--that's just HOW GOOD the information here is!