Thread: Restoring horn scales?

Was that blade on ebay recently?

It was. Ive been trying to get hold of one of these for a while.

Scales are now black as the night sky, with a great shine to them. I couldn't believe how well they transformed so easily.

Thanks for everyone's advice. Pics to follow once I have restored the blade itself.

Well, congratulations on the win! I love the patina that particular blade has. In pictures it looked very regular and even across the entire blade without real pitting. Is that how it is in real life?

I also love that you're keeping the original scales! I look forward to seeing what you've done with them.

It was a hard decision not to rescale given the condition as you can see, of the original scales. Im glad I posted this and got the right advice on how to restore them, as they now look good as new - as shiny as modern TI horn scales, and it was a quick and painless yet educational process, and far simpler than constructing new scales!

The patina is fairly even, just as the picture shows, luckily with no real pitting. I havent taking to sand paper yet as Ive not had the time, but it already looks alot shiner since Ive used some polishing compound to clean it up and reduce the patina.

Rite now its sitting in my display cabinet, looking superb along side its fellow Sheffields. May post some pics soon, or possibly wait until ive removed the patina

No pictures of the finished product? I won't sleep till I see some

I have a razor with horn scales. The scales have splintered on the inside and is preventing the razor from opening fully.

I am thinking of supergluing the splintered piece down, then sanding flat. Is there a better method that I should look into to do such a repair?

You are in right track.

I sand them with 400, 600, 800, 1500 and 2000 wet paper then white roughe and chrome ox on the buffer to shine them up. I usually do the sanding then oil to condition, then buff.