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    A Woooooo-Hooooo!

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    A woo-hoo indeed! Very well done. That looks fantastic! How was the rust at the heel? Inquiring minds want to know...
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    Quote Originally Posted by JellyJar View Post
    A woo-hoo indeed! Very well done. That looks fantastic! How was the rust at the heel? Inquiring minds want to know...
    Pretty bad on the back side, the show side wasn't too bad.
    Backside was full of pits real small, actually there still a few left, hard to see in the pictures.

    A clean band of metal appeared ahead of the pits, near the edge. As I kept sanding it became wider, so I sanded till I knew they would be hardly noticeable once I polished it. I got real lucky on this one....so far. I only lost a bevel width or two, still measures 6/8, heel to toe, and I had to reshape the heel a bit. Gonna have to swoop it pretty good, on the hones, she's a bit more curvy than she looks in the pics.

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    Nice work Mike!
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    My thumb thanks you. Shaun. That was a lot of sanding, and polishing by hand. Gives me a couple days to rest my hands before I get to honing it. Sunday shaver..if the edge holds, which I feel it will, from what I'm seeing.
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    Great work Mike. Saved a box? That's new to me.
    It's just Sharpening, right?
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    Just made it look a little better. Shoe polish was the only thing I could think of to spiff it up a little. Seems to of worked, I know water will bead, on it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by outback View Post
    Spruced up a box with some black shoe polish, figure contents within warrant that much.

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    Thanks for the shoe polish idea. Seems so obvious, but I would never have thought of that myself.

    Have a Wostie IXL box I’m gonna try that on.

    The ends of the top and bottom are gone. Any suggestions for how to patch that?

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    Shoe polish what an ingenious idea!
    You people are all way smarter than I. Dont get all big headed it isn't that great a compliment as the bar is set very low

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    Quote Originally Posted by DZEC View Post
    Thanks for the shoe polish idea. Seems so obvious, but I would never have thought of that myself.

    Have a Wostie IXL box I’m gonna try that on.

    The ends of the top and bottom are gone. Any suggestions for how to patch that?

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    Kinda have an idea...

    I'm thinking of a piece of fabric that can be placed from inside the box, then sealed with something from the outside. any thoughts.?!
    Mike

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