It came out but it won't go back in...
I've been working on restoring an HSB frenchpoint and I got stumped. When I got the thing, it had a galvanized nail being used as a pivot pin. With that nail, the blade was floppy as all H***, but fit in the scales with no problem. Well the nail was bigger than the original hole, so one side of the scales has a bigger hole than the other. I figure no big deal, I can drill the other hole out to the same size, sleeve the pivot pin, and everythings A Ok. But during reassembly, I noticed my blade wont fit between it's pivot point and the wedge. The point, (forgot the nomenclature already) hits the wedge now when I try to close the razor. Needless to say, it's not assembled. So anybody got any ideas how my scales got shorter? I haven't drilled out the other side yet. I just mocked it up with 1/16th rod and had this happen. I'm thinking after I open up the other side, maybe it'll bring it back where it belongs, but I figured I'd give the experts a chance to chime in before I proceed.