Evening gents.
Won this 7/8th and knew I was getting a chewed up blade from the pics.
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The scales are chunked up some, but I'm going to try and save them as well using some epoxy and shaved up bakelite (tip from Tom) or maybe shaved up old horn from another scale. What kind of epoxy to use, clear I presume and fully hardening. No flex?
Anyway, I notice that the arrow is ground completely away on this blade, under the wording, as is all the definition at the rear stabilizer, both sides. A drag that someone mistreated this bad boy so much but time to try and make lemonade.
So I started and finished with hand sanding, but did end up going to my wheel and compounds to finally get this blade back into some semblance of razor shaped again.
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I'm now to this point and think a heel reshaping is in order? Try to get the heel curved back to what's left of the original rear stab line? Don't know if it's a good idea to try and get the smile back and just thought I'd post these up and get some ideas from seasoned restorers. How much farther to go etc.
Happy I was able to keep so much of the stamps intact thus far.
Thanks for any feedback or suggestions.
:chapeau