Thread: The Butchered Blade

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Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

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LMAO nice! Gonna have to dig in that cereal box, dang it I got jipped on my ring too!
Frederick Reynolds, gotta love those freddys!
I would drop down in grit, there's some pitting there that will take some work to remove. But it is also up to you on the style. It's so much easier to just remove active rust and keep that vintage patina, and its a cool look too!
It's good you're doing it by hand, I've fallen back to that after trying out the grinder/greaseless for a while, I like the control and quality of hand sanding. But that's my preference. Still use the greaseless, just not as much.
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[QUOTE=Leatherstockiings;15 wedge.[/QUOTE]

You should be able to sand the hell out of it. If the pitts are real deep, you may have to live with some of them.
As long as you know you can get a clean bevel , is al you need to make it shave.

Here's one i did similar looking to yours.

You can see how bad the pitting is in the third pic, at 80 grt.
From there i progressed all the way to 2500 grt. Then buff with Cr/Ox, then with metal polish.

Some are never perfect.
But that sumbitch shaves like a dream. [emoji6]

Those scales are of my own design and propriety to me "ONLY"!!!
No copying. [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]

I've cut and shaped the scales for our new born.
I have chosen the African padauk.

Im going to make my first attempt
at a brass wedge, wich will be small.

Wedge is done and seems to be a good fit.

Baby's first tooth

Originally Posted by outback

I've cut and shaped the scales for our new born.
I have chosen the African padauk.

Im going to make my first attempt
at a brass wedge, wich will be small.

I read the other post while I was out, didn't have a chance reply.. glad you chose African padauk, the burl deserves more size show its beauty. This is to go on the shorty right?
Looking good! Man you are like quick silver! We are gonna have to start calling you mercury! You're fast..

Yeah mike, its for shorty.
Had a piece of padauk left over from the fredricks, that was just big enough to cut them from, so i went with it.
Not sure what size brass you get a hold on, but i found this.

If you want any, i can get it fer ya.

And badger knots. 11.00 $ .
Like the one i put in the VDH handle.
I posted it in brushes and SOD a while back. Think last week.

Quit being so cheap on the knots, outback and go thin those scales out!

Sez right here!

Ya boss....
I was thinkin...?
When i get this done and have had a shave with it, that it gets passed around the guys here to see what they think of it.
Watcha think...?