Thread: What are you working on?

First off...welcome, from Akron. Horn is the easiest material to work with, hands down. Though I've yet to make a set of scales from a blank, I've mainly repaired the vintage ones that were used originally

If you ever run out of semichrome, 3M Marine metal restorer/polish, is as good if not better. I've been told the chemical makeup is semichrome, on steroids.

You might even think about removing the FON logo from the original scales, and implement them to your new ones.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Rocks are a lot of fun Paul. Just wait until you start looking for them in the wilderness.

There already Shuan. I was sitting in the drive through waiting for food to come out and I said, "Now those are some big hones!"

Here is the original post, with a bit more information and photos.

The Library version has been truncated. (How to make a traditional set of horn scales ... the way I do it.)

Here also is an excellent by Charlie Lewis, in making scales with hand tools. ( scale making video, with hand tools)

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

There already Shuan. I was sitting in the drive through waiting for food to come out and I said, "Now those are some big hones!"

That is awesome, Paul-So I'm not the only one. I'm always looking at rocks going, "I wonder if you could make a hone out of that?" Go to Utah or the Appalachian mountains-both are a geologist's wet dream. I wade a lot of trout streams looking at potential hones in river rocks.

A piece of slate from a roof is the perfect size. They'd never miss just one.

Speaking of which...


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"No honey. I have no idea what happened to it...

A bit of sanding with 400, 600, removed quite a bit of pitting, but left a fair amount of character to this ol' blade.
Then came a long period of sanding with 800 crocus paper, finishing it off with a rag in hand, armed with emory, red rouge, cr/ox, 3M, and Flitz. Then got all my component's ready for assembly of MrZ's, Roberts. Scales were flattened, sanded, and dyed. Brass wear washers made, collars polished to a bright finish, with a dremmel in my pin vice.



Pinned up with original wedge, brass pins, and Austin's SS dome collars.

Beautiful as usual Mike!

That looks great Mike.

Originally Posted by outback

A bit of sanding with 400, 600, removed quite a bit of pitting, but left a fair amount of character to this ol' blade.
Then came a long period of sanding with 800 crocus paper, finishing it off with a rag in hand, armed with emory, red rouge, cr/ox, 3M, and Flitz. Then got all my component's ready for assembly of MrZ's, Roberts. Scales were flattened, sanded, and dyed. Brass wear washers made, collars polished to a bright finish, with a dremmel in my pin vice.



Pinned up with original wedge, brass pins, and Austin's SS dome collars.

This will be my oldest blade. Thank you for such a wonderful job. I cant wait to put her to use.