Thread: Wedge pic and scales

Here is a pic of the wedge I just got and the scales I am going to put on it. I made the scales for something else but I decided to use them for this. The only markings on the blade tang are R. Hibbard Sheffield and it seems to be flat.

Beautiful! What kind of wood is that -- is it snakewood? Great pattern.

That is curly maple. It came from some maple floring that just happened to have some area of curl in it.

I will love to see the after pictures. Beautiful scales.

I found that those scales are too short to use for the wedge. Too bad. I pre drilled the holes in those. I won't do that again. I am going to use black walnut instead. It won't be quite a nice but it will have to do.
It would be a shame to use the curly maple on the wedge anyway. I have found that the rust pits are very deep so it is not going to polish up as well as I hoped. I will jewel the blade to disguise the pits. Mack

What do you mean by "jewel the blade"?

The tang of a Wonderedge is "jeweled" or about as close to it as razors come..

Many bolts on rifles were "Jeweled" with conjoined swirls

Here is one I did. I do it with a small end brush dremel tool. I put it in a drill press and put polishing compound and oil on the blade. I then lower the brush and make a circle. Then overlap by about half and make another and on and on. A slow process. It is also called high speed engine turning. It is used on rifle bolts on high end rifles.

That's interesting. I guess I've never seen that on a blade, and I can see how that would help hide pitting

That's neat...in other areas we call that 'engine turned' I like the effect...you can get a engine turning drill bit at Eastwood for your drill press but I like your dremel idea..
very nice! OOPS okay re-read that and see you mention engine turning..