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Ive been meaning to update this thread for awhile. Thanks for all the feedback. I will heed the advice about hand sanding - I guess next time. I personally like the look of the minor scratches. It...

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Im not sure if I should replace the wedge or not. It appears to be made out of metal.

Also, I have to get them pinned and honed... Ill have to send them off to get honed as Im not...

Thanks for the recommendations Max, I think they came out really nice. I had to sand the scales down a bit more than I hoped, as there was an X cut in the back of one. So that took awhile to sand...

Last night I began to restore the scales from the W&B Barbers Notch. They are the first set of scales in the above post. After soaking in the neetsfoot oil for most of the day I dried them off then...

I was a little low on neetsfoot oil this morning, so I figured I would share what I did to conserve...

I put all the scales into a ziploc baggie and poured a small amount of neetsfoot oil into the...

Ok, I have the scales completely depinned now. When I depinned them originally I just removed the pivot pin. For whatever reason, the bottom pins were acomplete PITA to remove. I had to grind them...

Going to start work on the scale repair for the W&B tomorrow... Didnt mess with the tortoise shell yet.

Thank you, they do look very much alike. Ill check them out this morning, and report back.

Thanks, for the kind words everyone, your posts inspire me.

I will try and restore one of the sets of scales from the W&B. The other is cracked at the pivot pin. I may however attempt to fix...

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I then went out to the depot and to the auto parts store and picked up some more sand paper... 120/150/220/320/400/600/1000/1500/2000

Now I must confess / warn you I didn't take...

Here is my first restore. Admittedly I have never done this before. Nor was I ever planning to do one. But this weekend I stumbled upon a few Sheffield straights [2] from Wade & Butcher & [1] from...