Thread: Wade & Butcher medium hollow rehandled in Olive

I used a checkering file that I got from MidwayUSA. The files are designed to give evenly spaced lines in steel. I seem to recall reading that jimps are supposed to be 40 lines per inch, but the only checkering file I have has 20 lines per inch, so that's what I used. I was surprised to find how soft the steel was where I put the checkering. That made the job pretty easy. To make the jimping wider than the file, you just overlap a few rows and cut some more. As for the depth, I just eyeballed it, but I don't think you can really cut deeper that the teeth on the file. Once I was done, I sanded the jimps lightly so they weren't quite so sharp.

Thank you.I'd never seen one before.My questions sound sorta dopey now!

I too had no idea that's how you could do it. Thank you.

How did you manage to keep the file straight while you did it? It looks like it was made that way, so great job! The scales are beautiful too!

Thanks! I just clamped it in a vise and eyeballed it. I also worked from both sides of the tang, to hopefully minimize any out of perpendicular lines. It seemed to help. I suppose could hold a parallel against the razor is you really wanted to square things up.

Nice razor, Sir!

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that's awesome!! I love the way you did the jimps. one gripe I really have on some of the customs I've seen is that they are doing it obviously one row at a time you can tell because the spacing isn't perfect and the depth isn't consistent. this looks great. I'm thinking about ordering one of these tonight. I think the 20lpi worked out great, would you say you should have gone higher or that feels/looks good?

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