I just finished my first restoration, a Wade & Butcher Medium Size Hollow Ground that I picked up on Ebay a while back. The scales, which I assume were original, were badly bug eaten horn. I re-scaled it with a piece of whitetail antler that I had laying around. I've made a few one-piece knife handles before, but this was my first attempt at anything like scales. I cleaned and polished the blade, and re-used the original pewter wedge.