Thread: Hepburn & Prince in Black Walnut

I just finished this one. It's a Hepburn & Prince blade buffed out and dressed in black walnut with brass hardware.

I had a lot of fun working on this one. The pivot hole was way oversized, so I ended up double sleeving it. It was my first attempt at sleeving a pivot and I think it turned out well. The blade fits really tight.
It also took some sizing to get the width of the wedge just right. As you can tell the scales are narrow in relation to the blade, so I ended up sanding the wedge a bit at a time to get the blade to stop where I wanted it to, and not have the edge sticking out the bottom of the scales.

I finished the black walnut with tung oil, and as the pics show, I ended up with some scratches in them after they were finished.