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I ended up getting some little hard rubber wedges designed specifically for hand-sanding different shapes of wood. I didn't eliminate the pits on the surface -- partly because I was paranoid about...

I'm not quite ready to put this in the Restorations gallery. I'd like to get opinions on it.

First up, the razor-porn spread:

BEFORE

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After

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Now I just need to hone it. :)

I made the washers with some wide #00 brass and my doming block. In a last ditch effort to make the blade look less cruddy I taped the spine and stabilizer...

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A close up of the detail work I've done restoring these scales.

(the difference in color is due to different cameras and different times of day -- my main light source is the window of my...

Thanks! I wish I'd gotten better 'before' pictures, because it's hard to see some of the work I did (as in I know I did more fill-ins than I can currently find while looking at it up close with good...

I've been continuing to dink around with getting the blade to close without hitting the wedge. I really didn't want to have to cut it down.

So I took out the bearing washers I'd added (it didn't...

Here's how it looked before I started work.


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Here it is after a sizable chunk of hole-filling and sanding.

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Getting it taken apart caused a bit more damage to the scales than...