Welp, I've got the blade looking great again. It took much less time on the coti to get back to working order than the other blade. The only problem is, I'm sort of falling out of love with the scales. After some gluing, sanding, and polishing, it's not looking quite like I expected. Granted, I had no intentions of making it look like new, but I wasn't able to get the etching out. In fact, on one side my sanding actually revealed more! So now I just need to figure out whether I should just pop on a new brass pin and go with them or plunk down the time and cash into a new set of scales.