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06-04-2009, 02:22 PM #1< Banned User >
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Freaky Freddie Faux Frameback
Traditionalists avert thine eyes!
Found a nice humpbacked faux frameback that was in rough shape (but the price was right....know what I'm sayin'?)
So I took her back to the shop and had at it with my implements of destruction, and came up with this abomination:
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06-04-2009, 02:30 PM #2
Please spare us the before photos
Kidding of course
That's pretty cool! What a fine blade. Let me guess, gunstock scales coming up?Find me on SRP's official chat in ##srp on Freenode. Link is at top of SRP's homepage
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06-04-2009, 02:30 PM #3Senior Member
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cool! what did it look like before you attacked it?
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06-04-2009, 02:35 PM #4< Banned User >
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Hmmm.....seems as if I neglected to take any "before" shots...
Suffice it to say it did not have a thumbnotch, and it did have some rather severe corrosion and pitting....
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06-04-2009, 03:58 PM #5Now if I could just find a midget..
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Wow, not sure what it looked like before but looks really nice now!
Joe
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06-04-2009, 05:21 PM #6Beard growth challenged
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Love it! Great tang!
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06-05-2009, 10:09 AM #7The Great & Powerful Oz
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I think it looks like a Seraphim Custom Razor... not an abomination
“The white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.”
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06-05-2009, 11:51 AM #8< Banned User >
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Is that a Wade and Butcher humpback faux frameback? Tres cool. Tres cool.
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06-05-2009, 12:29 PM #9Senior Member
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Seraphim what stops you clean back of the blade. i can see spots toward to tip and heel in the back of the blade?
This is learning question.
is that anyway somehow you can take whole back down a little bit until that spots gone on both sides?
or it will not work?
i don't know just want to know your opinion on this
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06-05-2009, 01:00 PM #10< Banned User >
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That is some very deep pitting, and I did not feel like removing that much steel from the honing bevel area.
Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl
I'm not a perfectionist when it comes to restoring (one of the reasons I like working with the DAs-they come shiny and new...). On a 150 year old blade like this one, leaving some pitting to go alongside the shiny steel keeps it "real" (OK, maybe I'm just lazy like that....)
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