My first shot at a restoration ...

[MajorK]

Okay... barely a month after I got my first straight, I sniped this Wade and Butcher off of Ebay a week or so ago. I received it friday and removed the scales... the buffalo horn was in really bad shape. I put the blade in the ole brass vibrator with some new media and some polish and let her run til Sunday morning. Sunday morning I took the blade out, and it had cleaned it up a bunch but there were still some marks on the blade and spine. Hit it on the buffing wheels for about 2 hours ... started with emory, then diamond white, red jewelers rouge, and then just a finishing wheel. So far I am pretty impressed with how it looks. Really hard to take good pictures and get the light / focus right. So far I am please with my first try at this. It was paramount to me NOT to mess up the Masonic etching on the blade. Also, all I can find information wise about the age is that it is most likely pre-1891 since it does not say ENGLAND on the blade. Any help in that regards would be appreciated I plan on mounting this in a bone scale but am open to suggestion there as well. Many thanks to these forums because I wouldn't have known where to begin without you guys