Thread: Are these W&B's toast?

I picked up a lot of 20 or so blades in an auction today. Each had various degrees of wear and tear but at a buck a blade I was willing to roll the dice and see if I could bring some of them back. These W&B's were amongst the bunch - the one had significant rust/pitting near the blade, and the other has some horrible chips. I ask the experts here - are these to far gone? I quickly cleaned them with 220 so you guys could see a little better. My apologizes for the pics.

Nothing that a belt sander won't fix.
Or a lot of elbow grease and a coarse hone.
Yes, this is fixable.

I agree with bruno, take the edge back and they should be usable. The worst appears in the heel edge on both and they look to me like they've got enough meat on the blade. Myself, I would work the edges on both and put them back into service.

Have fun and take your time.

And those well worn pivot holes,lotta work,have fun.

I little bit of ID 1/16 brass tubing will fix the worn pivot holes and the edges can be fixed on a belt sander and then the stones.

That works,I get a little more anal and ream the pivot hole to press fit 3/16 nic rod,Than re-drill the pivot hole.
Takes me some time to do.

Thanks to all for your reassurance, I'll post some pics when I've completed.

I have worked some blades like this recently. I had to correct the spine at the place where I removed width from the blade, I did this by laying the blade on a flat surface and removing metal from the spine a very small amount at a time until the blade laid flat again. You could also use trigonometry to do this. The blades I restored (joseph rodgers) are in great shape now You could just hone and hone and hone to get the geometry right but I found my way a lot quicker and easier.
Carl.

I wish you luck.

wow, My first guess would have been they were toast, but then again, this forum shows talent from some that I find hard to grasp sometimes. I see a new work of magic on here everyday