I just got this blade off ebizzle, and I want to know a few things first, there is a lot of rust as you can see in the pictures but I know i can remove it all from the blade however the tang is another animal (with the scales on it anyway.) so my question here is should I unpin it to get to the tang with some muscle or just worry about the blade? Second can anyone tell me what the handles are made of? Feels like horn and looks like horn. Any guess to the age? and manufacturer? all I could come up with through wiki was a few references to a link between it and George Wostenholm & Sons.
P.S. is there anyone out here that can re-pin if I feel uncomfortable with it when the time comes?
P.S.S. on a side note is there anyway to fix a piece of bone that broke off of some scales? I.E. Super glue?