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This blade was all rusty and the scales broken. Using Bill's CD and lots of information from the forums, I made scales out of Corian and cleaned up the blade.
It says: Gilbert Saville Works LP
Sheffield-England
on the tang, I know nothing about the company, I just liked the engraving on the blade.
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Nice job! That is a cool looking blade. Nice photos to. :)
Looks great, I like those scales. What exactly is Corian?
Great work on the blade, and thoe are some cool looking scales!
Corian is a plastic material used for countertops and it comes in a thickness just right for scales once you cut it in half with a thin kerf carbide saw blade (held in a jig for safety). The different colors of material in it goes through and through (not just on the top of it) so when you sand it down with finer and finer grades of wet/dry sandpaper and then polish it on a buffing wheel with tripoli, it really shines.
You can buy samples through Coriansamples.com, You should buy the 10 inch X 10 inch pieces which they do not advertise but will show up as a size option when you click on the color material you want to buy and then click on the sizes available for purchase. Here in the States you should just try to talk to a local countertop installer and see if they will give you some scrap pieces from one of their jobs because you do not need much for scales. For example, they might cut out a hole in a Corian countertop for a sink and that waste would be a ton of Corian for scales.