Thread: My 1st re-scaling Wade and Butcher "Celebrated Hollow Ground"

Forgive my ropey photography. I bought this Wade and Butcher on EBay as a project, it arrived with a dreadful set of square edged blonde scales but the blade was in great shape, other than being polished to within an inch of its life. I found a set of horn scales that I thought would suit the blade from EBay and purchased shortly after.
I must admit I made many mistakes along the way, 1st I tried to drill the holes in the scales free hand and although one hole was perfect but the other was a little off and caused me some problems when polishing the wedge and I think has caused the blade to shut off centre. The second was I lost one of the small brass washers in my old work bench so had to revert to using 2 larger on at the pivot.
But nonetheless, I'm very happy with my results and despite all the mistakes it still looks better than when I received it. I'm open to criticism and advice, just be gentle