Timor

This too was part of the trade along with the Cleveland Cutlery so I wanted to see what I could do with it. As you can see it's a classic case of scales gassing off creating rust on the blade. The scales had to go.
I poured new acrylic ( in the photos the color looks off but in person it's very close) and made new scales. I removed the Timor inlay and put it on the new scales.
The blade being so very thin to start with was sanded the best I could without compromising the blade. She came back together with the original wedge and it's now in my rotation.

A lovely save, good work.

Jonathan

Nicely done, the new scales look great.

Stu

Wow, you did a fantastic job restoring that!

Holy Smoke.....what a miracle!!! Beautiful job on this. Looks brand new!

I could have picked much easier ways to go but it was fun trying to recreate it.

Looks like factory specs, excellent reproduction carver.

Looks realy great! How did you remove the Timor inlay from the old scales??

Thank you guys!
I used the old scales as a pattern and duplicated them in thickness as well.
To remove the Timor inlay I used some heat. That's why the old scales look a bit toasted.
I tried using heat as well to get an actual inlay using some of my scrap scale material for practice. I used a flat blade on a wood burner I have and tried pressing the brass into the scales using the heat.. Sorta worked but there was some distortion on the surrounding material so i just laid it on top.
Close. doesn't really stick out and you only feel a slight rise where it sits.