Thread: Wade and Btcher junk store steal

Made a stroll thru the local junk store and stole this one for $18.00.

Nice find. Those scales look like they may clean up well too.

Originally Posted by BeJay

Nice find. Those scales look like they may clean up well too.

Unfortunately they are badly cracked but I have another set from the same period that should do nicely.

For old scales like that, I often prefer to rub them down with Neatsfoot oil and then do nothing else with them. As long as they remain functional sometimes its nice to leave them in their beat up state.

Originally Posted by Utopian

For old scales like that, I often prefer to rub them down with Neatsfoot oil and then do nothing else with them. As long as they remain functional sometimes its nice to leave them in their beat up state.

I think I will give them a little TLC first and see what they turn out like.

Take them off the pins, sand them down, save the dust, mix it with some slow cure epoxy seal the crack, build up the chips and re-sand. I've saved a lot of horn that way