Thread: Restoration for One of the "Other Guys"

Wow! he sure had some great looking scales it was great that you cleaned the blades up some too it would have been sinful to clean the scales up that nice and put an old rusted blade back into those scales. It's too bad he doesn't use the razors seems like he is missing out but to each his own I guess.

Very cool. The one set of sterling scales I have handled were also lightweight and very thin, but curved to look more substantial than they were.

I wonder how many of those "other guys" are out there

Sorry to pick this thread up late.
Those are just some breath taking scales and blades!
I would hazard to say that the sterling scales are done by repousse.
Repousse is a process where you take several different types of punches and forms and hammers and sculpt a design into the metal. The metal is usually embedded in a base of pitch or some other semi hard material. Then the artist hammers in the design on the metal, releases the metal and then turns it over and finishes the hammering and sets the final detail work.
It's kind of like leather working/sculpting except most of it is done from the backside of the piece and in reverse.
I've played with repousse a bit, and it's not near as easy as one might think.
thanks again for the pics Glen! Totally awesome job!