Thread: Frederick Reynolds - The Celebrated Hollow Ground

Just picked this up at a local antique store.

I will be cleaning it up and trying to restore the coffin box that came with it over the next while, so I thought I’d start this thread to keep me motivated and to solicit advice.

Normally, I would put the blade into new scales, but I’ve seen what Outback has done to renew old scales with bug bites, so I will try my hand at that for the first time.

Very cool man, can't wait to see what you do with it.

A little shoe polish will help the box, from my experience.





Looks like ya have a heap of work to do on that blade. Can be done...with determination, patience, and buckets of elbow grease.

Any questions, give me a holler. Glad to help ya along, any way I can. Mr Reynolds made some fine implements worth restoring. IMO

There was a thread a long time ago where someone did some box repaired and in part they used paper mache, I seem to recall that was near the end of the process. If you could find the tread I think there was a fair amount of info in it.

Originally Posted by RezDog

There was a thread a long time ago where someone did some box repaired and in part they used paper mache, I seem to recall that was near the end of the process. If you could find the tread I think there was a fair amount of info in it.

Sounds similar to how I've repaired holes in boxes. I've used pieces of junk boxes to fix another.

Dr.Frankenstein, would be proud.

I haven’t started this project yet. I’m away from my razor tools for a short time, but will post progress pictures once I actually get started.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.