Thread: 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.