Thread: 8/8 Anchor Tang Wade And Butcher

Originally Posted by kcb5150

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I think the one I have is similar to that but I don't think it says Fertile on it. I'll have to look for mine. Now with that added to it makes me think it is authentic but if it weren't, it would just be a way to throw people off. Yours & even mine appear to be of good quality. Is that another hole in the tail?

Yes. It was a stubtail and someone drilled a second pivot hole so it seated in mid 19thc scales and had more tail. Mine is an I though. The tang is really crisp. It takes an amazing edge

I dug it out of the pile to show something cool. The only thing I had to do with it was tweak the steel a bit around the shoulder so the heel would sit on the stone well. It has a wild modification to the blade. Whoever owned it hashed out exactly how much material needed to be scooped from each face to make it behave like a more hollow ground blade and give an incredibly neat bevel, yet it retains full wedginess. The channels are like very shallow comet tails. I purposely never cleaned up the surfaces because the whole compensated hollowing blows me away. Crazy thing was they got that so right and left a bit too much meat at the shoulder...

Finally got around to that magnum bonum butcher. Used a mix of chemicals, 1k and finer wet dry and a fiberglass pen. Saved the whole etch but the rot got the M long ago. 9/10 of a rare butcher etch trumps some stupid regrind all day any day so I am happy. Scales were just patched up as I think they are not original at all. Will source some big real ones from the era that have some patina to match.



My start point

More pre any work..