Thread: What are you working on?

I think that is a standard size so you can make them as you want from that point.

A FBU showed up in my mailbox, yesterday.!!

Yes, it belongs to one of our newest members...lazyMayzyK. Or Kyle, for short.

Unpinned it, saving the original collars n wedge.



Blade faces have had some kind mechanical sanding done to them, but I should be able to remove most, if not all, without damage to the etch. Thankfully, their not too deep, but its still gonna take some time to clean up.




The scales are in pretty good shape.
I've given them a sanding, then cleaned with denatured alcohol. A few spots, mainly at the wedge, have delamination that need a touch of CA.




For now...they reside in a solution of black, hair dye. Once done, and dry, I'll take care of the delamination, and get um soaking in Neatsfoot oil while I'm working on the blade.



I figure by the time I finish the blade, they should be well hydrated, and ready for flattening with the ol' clothes iron.

Originally Posted by outback

A FBU showed up in my mailbox, yesterday.!!

Yes, it belongs to one of our newest members...lazyMayzyK. Or Kyle, for short.

I'll be following this rebuild

It's got to be a kind of cool feeling taking something apart and seeing and working on something that hasn't had another set of eyes or hands on it for 100+ years.

Mike's your man. As I said before you won't believe the transformation that thing will undergo. I hope you have good before pics because it's easy to forget just how much different it looked before.

Go Mike!

Hey, is that thing over 8/8 Mike? It looks like 9/8 or at least 17/16.

17/16 at toe, 8/8 at heel., Paul.

Scales are out of dye. Rinsed, conditioned, and drying.
Pics on those, tomorrow.

On the other hand... I managed to get the scratches out, and the rest of the blade sanded with 600grt. W/D, and baby oil.





A bit of light character, should be all that's left, once done.
I'm assuming..

Looking good Mike. I've been meaning to ask you this resto question. How long do you usually let scales soak in the hair dye?

Several hrs. Say 3-4 hrs or more.
Can't hurt anything,
Were working with horn, instead of hair/ same thing. Just thicker, and only one strand. Gonna take a bit to penetrate it.

Note: always dye, before any CA repairs. Dye won't penetrate CA, and you'll end up with what looks like fisheye.

Yeah, had to learn that lesson the hard way. I have added dust to the patch but that is a bit like matching paint on a fender and it works better with epoxy. Mainly added it to epoxy to give it a grainy effect and so it didn't look translucent.
Baby oil huh Mike? Never tried that before; only water, sometimes with a drop of soap.

Oil always works better. I've had a bottle sitting on the honing bench, for Arks. I figured...why not.! It works great.! And my hands and fingers like it, too.