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My humble start to restorations.
Well after some time reading on here and some amazing articles and video's I decided to move into SR restoration from DE's. I have no woodworking or metal working experience prior to starting. I started out with just restoring blades. that led to unpinning and repinning scales. then came acrylic scales and then into wood. It has been a good journey so far but I have so much to learn. I will post the restores I have done from oldest to newest. Please do keep in mind that I really had no idea what I was doing. I just read lots and watched many video's and sort of worked at it from them. Please be gentle but honest!!
My first restore was an old Oxford Germania cutlery Comp. That had a crack at the shoulder and chip at the toe and TONS of rust. It offered me TONS to start learn with!! Started by doing a progressive sanding from 220 up to 3000g and then a polish with Flitz. I ground down the heel and toe (keepin cool). I had at first kept the scales on it. I however wanted to learn more so unpinned and made my first set of scales (this came much later after I had done a couple other blade restores). The blade turned out great but my first set of scales and pin's left much to be desired. As it was my very first blade, pin and scale set I will keep it how it is forever more.
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Nice, you should be proud! There's something nice about taking something that was in really bad unusable shape and making something functional and beautiful out of it. Congrats!
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Zerandise
Thanks much for all the great comments gents. I had feared that I would post my work and that everyone would see all of the flaws that I see. I am a very harsh judge of my own work. Just my own work tho not others. Any advice on what I could do to improve my work? Anything jump out at anyone? as I am just starting I am hoping not to get to many bad habits. I do thank you all kindly for the great remarks.
Hi there,
Your work is excellent, hard to believe you are new at it. I can only suggest that you make your wedges more "wedge" and less "spacer".
Looking forward to seeing more of your work!
Eric.