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    Thumbs up Knife and handle #3 on track.

    I just thought I'd show you gentlemen, and ladies, the third blade I'm restoring. The scales are Sheesham, like my other scales, and it is sealed with cyanoacrylate and then I put a coating of carnuba wax on them. I think they look pretty good. Very thin, since I messed up when I was splitting the wood, but the blade which will sit in them (the one in the pictures) is a 5/8, or thereabout, so it's the smallest of the blades I bought (barring the unusable one I used as a training blade when I first started trying to make scales). The edges of the scales are rounded/beveled, and the pin is nickelsilver, and the collar is stainless steel. The wedge is white plastic, and is pretty gently tapered, because I wanted the scales to pinch the blade and not have to use a third pin.

    I may need to work on the wedge a bit more, filing/sanding the visible bits of it down a little more, but on the whole I think I'm finished. Just have to finish sanding and polishing the blade and mount it in its new handle.

    /Nicholas
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    Nice job! For me, I've found a rounded profile not only appeals to my eye, but is easier to handle at the strop.

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    Those scales look great... really nice job.

    I use pop rivets too for test fitting... you can drill holes the right distance apart in scrap wood and you have a useful jig then that will free up your other hand.

    Greg Frazer

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    Yep, pop rivets are useful for a lot of things.
    Last edited by minstrel; 09-20-2007 at 09:51 AM.

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