Thread: "The Real" with Real Gold Scales

This little Cattaraugs Cutlery, is etched "The Real" on the blade.

Gold Scales from real Gold flakes, mixed as slurry with System3 MirrorCoat on thin brass liners. Shapped and sanded to 12000, then polished some more.

Brass pins, no washers. The stars, that appear to be washers, are spacer beads to establish a solid footing to the brass liners. Bone wedge.

The blade being so small and light, with the heavy scale material it was some kind of crazy to get the balance, but came together fine.

I realized after taking the pics, I didn't take a completed shot next to something to show its scale. It's a cute, small blade. Suppose made for travel? I was honored to be asked to rescale this along with some others. I included a photo that I did take of pre-scaled image lined up next to those to get a feel for its tiny size.

If wanted, further images here