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My First Semi-Restoration!
Here I present to you, my Wade and Butcher that I restored about a week ago. I just shipped it out for honing last Friday, so I am hoping it returns to me soon so I can test it out!
Anyways, this was an Ebay purchase for about $25 I believe, and my first W&B. Ever since I learned of the prodigus culter, I've been itching to get my hands on one. While it isn't a biggin' (4/8), I love the fat spine and shoulderless design, it is now one of my favourites!
It was in fairly good condition when I recieved it, just a bit dirty. The scales were in good shape so I didnt remove them, (which is something I have not done before, I thought I'd save that for another time) I just ended up sanding and polishing the blade and then sanding the scales. I had just been hand sanding up to this point and only used my dremel for the polishing. A Joseph Elliot met an early end to a Dremel sanding drum at my hands a few weeks ago:banghead:, and as a result has made me very hesitant about busting out the power tools!
It went ok; it definitely looks better than it did but I'm far from satisfied. As one is able to see minute striations from the lower grit papers that I wasn't able to remove. I went from like 220-1500, then polishing. Although I ran into some problems such as not being able to locate all the grade of SP, and when I did end up ordering a pack of 800 grit paper it turned out to be coarser than my 600 grit of another brand (3M and Gator respectively).
All in all I had alot of fun and am pretty happy with the result! I would love to here any advice, especially what folks use for their own restorations: sanding progression, brand of sand paper, tools, polishing compounds etc...
Here are the before and after shots:
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