Thread: The Butcher Shop

Outstanding thread.

I'm just working on my first ever restore at the moment and it's a wade and butcher I bought on ebay a couple months ago. I made some sweet custom scales out of a mix of maple and walnut, sanded down the blade and got it pretty shiny (especially considering the shape it was in when I got it) and then rounded up a brass rod and washers....

That's when things started to go wrong. I realized I'd not cut the scales to 1/8 of an inch but rather to a 1/4 of an inch. So here I had some sweet scales that were way to thick. I sanded them down on a belt sander but I really screwed up one side and made it too thin. When I tried to put it all together I split the thin scale. I then removed the razor, made a shim from some maple and attached it to the cracked scale (it made sense because I was having to use several washers to get a clean close). I re drilled. it didn't look too bad and the razor was closing straight so i figured what the heck. I'll pin it and after some TLC it will still look good and be a memory of good times. So I went ahead. This time the other scale cracked!! Sadly, it was on the last hammer tap!

It's all together and would definitely be functional. i'm in the process of making a new set of scales that will not suffer from the same mistakes as this first set.

Check out the before and after pics. should look good down the road I think.




Stultsy