I received a large bigelow and dowse from ebay the handles were in good shape
and made out of buffalo horn the blade itself had heavy honing wear and some one had got into it with some sort of abrasive wheelwhich had left deep scoring,I popped the handles off and set to work on the blade,with a grinder and a 3" contact wheel . I pushed the honing ware up to th spine on both sides and removed the scoring . So far so good. Next came the emery cloth or wet and dry got it to 1200 grit then off to the buffing wheel,everything is going to plane ,however there is a spot near the edge that has not been completely removed as I feel I would be flirting danger due to its depth, I got to where it is noticeable but not much so I`m happy with that.
Next comes the handled ,a quick buffing and whack it on however in my haste to finish the buffing wheel grabbed the scaled and threw them against the back shed wall,in the process tearing one in half.Blast I said ,no worries I will make new ones out of a lovely piece of New Guinea rose wood . I cut them out sanded finished with super glue and Renaissance waxwhat I didn`t notice a vain running through the pivot pin hole and you guessed it ,it split this time I said double dam
Any way I guess its good practice
Kind regards Peter:cry: