Thread: The Butchered Blade

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Oh, I would do SOMETHING, Steve! Fortunately, I have learned when to stop and unpin one before it all goes South!

I heard that! I'm very careful when unpinning! If not, bad things can happen....................things you wished were just a bad dream!!!!!!
I'd offer ya a beer but I don't have any but after my dad passed away, I found his homemade wine recipe & I have 5 gallons fermenting for over 1 1/2 years now! I quit drinking but I'd sample a little of that wine when it's time & it's about time!!!

Originally Posted by engine46

I heard that! I'm very careful when unpinning! If not, bad things can happen....................things you wished were just a bad dream!!!!!!
I'd offer ya a beer but I don't have any but after my dad passed away, I found his homemade wine recipe & I have 5 gallons fermenting for over 1 1/2 years now! I quit drinking but I'd sample a little of that wine when it's time & it's about time!!!

Was not too careful as unpinning it, Steve! In fact, it took me an hour to correct hours of work!
sorta like drinking, I suppose? No need to continue mistakes, either way.

Lets see some more saves, Fellas! MikeT?

Fantastic job Tom!
Worth the effort on those old stag scales and the reward is a shave away..
Gave me some ideas for future pinning jobs so thanks for posting the efforts.
Been working on a travel strop for a fellow member but almost completed it and my earlier posted old WB is on deck.
Maybe by the weekend I'll have er apart and started.
Building this strop case from photocopies of the intended blades so a bit of a new challenge.
Nothing the all might paint stir stick can't handle though..

Oh yea, and I had a 200 HP air compressor calve at work so there's a 20 k bill coming down the pipe.
fun fun.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Was not too careful as unpinning it, Steve! In fact, it took me an hour to correct hours of work!
sorta like drinking, I suppose? No need to continue mistakes, either way.

Lets see some more saves, Fellas! MikeT?

Oh man! Where to start??? Get busy with stressful life stuff for a couple days and return to see so 4 pages of excitement!
Okay lets see here.. very strange, while driving today 3hrs each way I was thinking about the exact thing with the tubing larger pin holes. Yesterday stumbled upon a hardware store with amazing selection of brass tubing.
From my understanding the tubing is not always used to fix "too large" holes but to protect the scales from pins expanding during peening. Scale material with low tensile strength (stag, MOP, and such). The tubing arrests expansion while allowing the pin to pull scales together.
I was imagining how to do this, but i had bought the tubing for fixing oversized tang holes.
Just bought a better bandsaw today because I couldn't wait any longer (ryobi broke), got home and my boy cut himself really bad on arm.. so put him on the kitchen table, got out my emergency response med kit, and 2 hrs and 26 stitches later, he is in bed and I'm tired as hell!
Got the bandsaw running, cut my bog oak, and sanded a bit to cool down from a crazy day.
Beer, cigar, bed.
I'll take pics tomorrow. Thanks for the exciting read though! Seriously a page turner Tom!
Dang good work! Very informative. You guys rock!
Goodnight.

Sorry about your boy, Mike.

Dang! Where are you guys tonight? Usually its me coming in late and missing all the excitement..
Well today I got a fair amount of work in but not as much as id like.
Got a basic shape down and sanded to a bit over 1/16", will take it further after I make some adjustments. Drilled the holes, and put some time in on the blade. The blade has some deep pitting, not many but its taking a while as Im not going too low grit.
3750 year old bog oak. Ill be putting two smaller original collars with double pins at wedge end and a bigger collar that I had in scrap bin at pivot. I think it will look good.. you never know until..

The bog oak is great. You may want to rethink the double pins at the bottom and trim the scales out to original size, JMO.
So perhaps smoothing all that jagged edge on a DMT, or my favorite, making a groove in the side of an old knife hone? Time to begin sanding top to bottom to emulate the factory grinding striations.
I have a couple of original FBU collars left. They may match the top ones pictured?

Thats gunna look good together, Mike. [emoji106]

I would make it more original but the bog oak slabs I bought is too short by half an inch. Wanted to make it work, and I dont like the wedge end coming out really far, and prefer the pivot end of the scales to not cover the tail as much.. Its definitely not original if I go with this design but Ive always liked scales with double wedge pins. Ive got aftermarket stacked washer collars, same ones you used on that other one (I think).. you had suggested the guy on the bay to buy them from if Im not mistaken. If I go ahead and use those ones then I could save these original collars for an original restore job... ? hmmm now Im second guessing my decision... dang it Tom! lol
Ive seen other custom jobs similar to this that I thought were so cool..

Edit:
Did you offer original collars? Now that is quite a gesture! I know how much you prize those. Let me figure out what to do with this and I may take you up on the offer.. Could also trade. Ive got cool stuff too hehehe
The scales are not done, a whole lot of fine tuning, so the will look better... ^_^

Whatever, MikeT. If I am gonna send you the collars, I will also send you some of Babur's collars to go underneath them. With wood, is a good idea. You kids..........Double wedge end pins are so 'yesterday'! NoBueno!

Keep it real?