Thread: First restoration on a vintage straight

I found a Wade & Butcher straight that was a good candidate for restoration I was comfortable with. It needed about .200" removed from the toe and new scales. The chipped toe was done with a dremel and came out nice and without a lot of work. The scales were done in camel bone from Ajkenne and are comming out very nice. I decided I was going to use brass so I need to order some brass pins from Aj and the wedge I have a piece I am working on. Looking good so far, wish me luck please!

Good luck. Cutting them off is not too much trouble, just be sure to polish those edges as it will scratch a strop easy. So be very careful running it on a strop the first time. Check it out easy at first.

Bone is my favourite material to work with.
Good luck, so it’s looking great.

good luck! please share more pix on progress and finished product.

I love bone scales, but it is a tough material to work with. There is very little flex to it, so you need to taper the wedge just right to make it all sit just right.

I always forget to take pictures of of my projects at the begining. Mostly stones that clean up to be something good. Then I'm like this is getting good I need to take a picture, Lol!
The camel bone is a nice material and is comming along nicely. I decided to go with a brass wedge and brass pins and washers. It goes good on W&B's in my opinion.

I don’t take before or progress pictures either, usually so concentrated on what I’m doing the last thing on my mind is documenting progress, unfortunately it’s kind of all we have to better explain to those via the internet the what and why of things.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with, your idea sounds good.

Looking good so far!
What type of bone?

A little shaping of the camel bone scales and picked out the hardware I am going to use.
Just need to do the wedge and a bevel on the edges of the sacale.

Was thinking going with a brass wedge, but I do like a rich blood red swirled plastic too. Hard to decide. Lol, but that to me is the fun part!

I forgot to add the blade.