Thread: What are you working on?

After working on it late into the night I came back to it this morning and still scratches, I am most likely going to have to live with a couple scratches in the blade. Also I started on the back side using a cork to hold the sand paper and it looks really good minus like three deep scratches, I am hoping that the dark spots on the face will come out but I am more concerned with the scratches for some reason.

I feel the same way...hate random scratches.
Probably from honing, and letting the spine drop off the edge of the stone.
Have a few like that...oh well.[emoji17]

Yeah, what ^^^ Mike said is how it goes sometimes.


I guess I'm not the only one when summertime hits, gets to NOT getting to the things we really want to do done

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Well, A too-long project will come together soon.
It's French!

That says that Torrey was not the only manufacturer that had molded in scale clips to retain the blade....Thank you!
~Richard

Well got the Henckels, and Parker all finished up, the Parker still has some deep scraches on the the face but I didn't want to remove any more metal than I already have. Also waiting on the scale material but here are the blades.
Fridour 72 1/2
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Parker 510
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Nice work. Getting them cleaned up, and they will be finished and back to work soon.

Great work with both those blades.

Agreed. You can only go so far. You have learned that. Keep them functional!

Cleaned up the IXL FBU some tonight with nothing but 3m and was pretty surprised how well it performed on the black rust at the toe.


I really don't think I will do much else. Rust is gone, I can live with the surface blemishes.
For the sake of the pins as received I've decided not to separate it either.
Cheers gents..

Mike! Rub it gently with a folded-over strip of soft paper-towel, With WD40 dribbled on and a snurdle of powdered CroOx laid on the strip and pressed-in.
A bit messy, but it gives a bit of 'frost'. Looks older and less shiny. Blends a lot in..Go around the etch mostly.
A bit there once in a while.

Might take a while!