Thread: First Restoration - Wade & Butcher 5/8 with Honduran Rosewood

Here's the (almost) finished product of my first attempt at restoring a blade (it still needs it's final hone). I picked it up at a local antique shop with busted scales and a rusty blade. Polished it up and made the new scales with a (hand powered) coping saw and some sandpaper. Finished with epoxy resin.

I'm pretty happy with the way it came out and am looking forward to getting on with another project. Any constuctive feedback welcome.

PS - Excuse the low quality pics. My camera sucks.

That looks fantastic! Take a bow kid, you done good!!!

What did you use to drill out your holes? I had a few problems in that area.

Very nice!

Careful---re-scaling can become an obsession!

Originally Posted by mrbhagwan

That looks fantastic! Take a bow kid, you done good!!!

What did you use to drill out your holes? I had a few problems in that area.

I pre-drilled when I had the blanks cut out. Then I used the holes to elevate the blanks for the epoxy coat after wich I twisted the pins out with a pair of pliers and then re-drilled.

Does that help?

Rossco...that looks wonderful. Not too awful bad for a 1st job.

The wedge looks like the rose wood. How did you make it wedge shaped.
Al

Originally Posted by albertpotash

The wedge looks like the rose wood. How did you make it wedge shaped.
Al

I glued the wedge to one side of the scales before applying the epoxy. After that I used the scale as a handle and sanded it on a slight angle with some sandpaper taped to a work bench (it didn't need to have much taken off). After that I re-sealed with epoxy.

PS- it's also rosewood.

Scales look great man. You did a fantastic job!

Killer work guy! Ill be getting in to scales soon .Just setting up the equiptment right now,GOOD work,your a natural!!

Looks awesome man! A cracking job all round.