Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by sharptonn

So.........I reckon I will have to do another save.........Is anyone restoring a clunker?
Prodigy, what's up on the Henckels?

I demand to see more progress pics out of you guys. Pages of yakking are fine, but we are supposed to be working here.
Don't be showing a completed set of scales or a finished blade. I (WE) want to see how it is done.
Reckon I will have to go to the pile.....sigh. And ALL the honing I have yet to do!

I know, I know! I gave up and am sending it to glen. He's going to use it as a learning oppertunity and show pictures for a thread. It's too nice for me to chance messing it up, and I'm so busy with school I could be spending what little time I have restoring and honing the pile of blades I'm trying to sell. This morris & forndran brush set me back a small fortune!

Originally Posted by prodigy

I know, I know! I gave up and am sending it to glen. He's going to use it as a learning oppertunity and show pictures for a thread. It's too nice for me to chance messing it up, and I'm so busy with school I could be spending what little time I have restoring and honing the pile of blades I'm trying to sell. This morris & forndran brush set me back a small fortune!

I saw Glen come in and like my post on the tang. I hope he may post/join us HERE so we can see how he tackles it.
Talk about a guy to learn from!

I always do spine and tang work by hand now. Necessary I think for sharp lines. The spine be done with the greaseless but I'm not a fan of greaseless/grinder anymore. Actually I've been doing all sanding by hand. Progressed from 100 grit up to 2000. I like to use a polish like mothers with sand paper to finish each high grit. The blade face, I think I finished with 220. Probably could have worked on it more after that.
A Dremel with soft wheels and polish is good for tight spots like the stabilizers..

Originally Posted by Matheus

I never worked baleen, so I can't guess how can it be done for sure. Density and micro structure can be distinct from turtle sheets.
With turtle sheets the temperature is of the boiling water (100oC), just about a minute to heat and moist the things up to allow pressing further. Oh, the press, or clamp, or something you use to apply pressure must be heated too. Not so hot as the water, just to avoid cooling down the pressed parts too fast. Turtle sheets also were sanded with steel whool prior to clamping.

Oh, just to clarify the things: I never hurt a turtle... I used to live at the beach (and I was at college - biology), and very often dead turtles and all sort of creatures were washed at storm season. I scavenge on that, and collected multiple good biological pieces as albatrosses, petrels, eventually whales, dolphins, sea lions. Assembled lots of good skeletons for the college. My car had a distinct stench by the time, booze and chum.
Boiling dead turtles to remove the shell scales was part of the processing procedure to get the skeleton, and the granddad of a fishing pal (japanese) told me to spare the scales and showed me how to weld together the leftover sheets using an eletric pan . He (the old guy) worked making frames for eyeglasses when young at Japan.

There was a thread on here about Tortoise shell & it was a very interesting read but I'm trying to find it now. I know I saved it but that's how it goes plus this crap I have has been plaguing me for a week now. My belly is churning away. I've had this crap before but not in a long time. Hungry one minute & churning the next....................I've had to force myself to do something that I would normally jump up & get after it. I can't wait for this crap to move on...........

Originally Posted by sharptonn

So.........I reckon I will have to do another save.........Is anyone restoring a clunker?
Prodigy, what's up on the Henckels?

I demand to see more progress pics out of you guys. Pages of yakking are fine, but we are supposed to be working here.
Don't be showing a completed set of scales or a finished blade. I (WE) want to see how it is done.
Reckon I will have to go to the pile.....sigh. And ALL the honing I have yet to do!

Demand??????
Tom, you're funny but when my stomach is feeling this way, it sucks bad & I can't even laugh!!!! At least I'm still doing things but not like I normally would do.
Weird crap goin' around.
I'll get better & speed up again but right now I am like a tortoise!
I better get over this crap!

Somebody has to crack the whip, Steve!

We all have a pile of stuff. We intend to do something with it. We need to learn how. Now's the time. Motivation. Let's get motivated!
Har?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Ya, I lovingly put 2 rounds of renwax on it. I have decided to put some felt feet under it, take it home, and set it on my end table where I sit to watch TV.
Anything in the rotation needs a snug, it'll be right there. This thing needs to be seen!

It's for when you pinn that beautiful work you do.

It should rest on something as beautiful as it self.

Just don't put it on the floor, and forget it. [emoji16] [emoji51] [emoji31]

On progressive workshop pics. Tough going as you have no photographer along. Simulate things and show the tools, etc as best you can. Do half of a scale and show where you are going. Lots of ways to show progress. JMO.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I saw Glen come in and like my post on the tang. I hope he may post/join us HERE so we can see how he tackles it.
Talk about a guy to learn from!

That would be nice, he's quite the resource.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Somebody has to crack the whip, Steve!

We all have a pile of stuff. We intend to do something with it. We need to learn how. Now's the time. Motivation. Let's get motivated!
Har?

I know! I have a pile of blades & a pile of scales. I have one W&B broken blade that needs surgery but I'm trying to think of exactly how I want it. It's at the heel & I would like to remove the stabilizer if I could. That part is going to be cut off anyway. I'll get over this crud but it's that crap that just keeps lingering & not going away yet.
Thanks for the motivation Tom.
This is a long thread & I can see it going on a lot longer.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Get it on, but we need to learn! Progress pics, techniques. Let's SEE, hear, and discuss about the steps, the trials and tribulations.

Especially the victories! This is a WORKSHOP thread! Get to work!

Can't take pics of honing.
Ok... Lets drag the blade this a way.
Turn the blade over. No!!! The other way .... DAMMIT!!! [emoji5] [emoji5]