I finally got the time and reshaped my first set of scales as they were not the same exactly. Drilled the holes at 5/32" as I was told and this helped out a lot. Put a few more coats of CA on last night and sanded. This morning I tried my hand at pinning for the first time. The pivot pin I think I made just a smidgen to short but was able to peen it enough. Might have to re-do that pin but for now its together and don't look too bad for my first attempt. The blade, when I got it was rusted and the rust had gone into the metal so I sanded it down as much as I could going from 200 up to 2500 grits and then polished with some kind of metal polish the wife had laying around.

Things that don't make me happy about the way it came out is I didn't clean up the insides of the scales when I had stain them originally as there are streak's of dark stain on the inside so I left that out of the pics. ha. And it is not quite centered as well as I wanted but that is something I think I can correct as I read about this. Its not off by much but...My wedge could have been a little thinner as the spacing of the scales seams a bit much but the blade don't fall thru so that's what counts the most.

So here you go. Flame me as much as you can so I'll know what to do better the next time!

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This last pic is with my new Rock. Jnat, and I still haven't figured out how to use it properly I guess. I got four hours in just touching up an edge and it still wont do an HHT. I'll get it. As you can tell if you know anything about me by now that I don't give up and jump in with both feet. Only at SR shaving 3+ weeks and own 5 now.