Thanks, Mike and Steve! These are one-piece scales, folded, and double-pinned at the wedge-end. They are short. For a reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeB52
The blade is supposed to settle into the v-shaped end, right before the flat/rivets. Strange antique scales, for certain.
The blade may well get sent to some horn, bone, or ivory someday. For now, it has a home! :D
In retrospect, if I had drilled my pinhole at 7:30 instead of at 9:30 in this pic, it may have made a difference, putting the tang lower in the scales. The edge, however, is quite close to the bottom as it is. A little bit at the pivot means a LOT everywhere else! :eek:
I can see peening in a new slug of aluminum mandrel and redrilling the pinhole at a different location as an option as well.
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