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Pictures of finished scales!
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SO, I FINALLY finishied these walnut scales. What a pain in the ass they were! Talk about bad luck from the start! The materials split through out the entire process...what I mean by that is, due to my unexplainable missfortune with T-88 epoxy, I had to reglue the brass and wood, brass and blue liner for each scale, as I was sanding. Seems Gorilla glue works good for me :shrug:
Anyway, I also treated them with Minwax wood hardener. These are the first set of scales that I inlayed a shield in (the black horn scales I had shown previous was actually the second attempt...it's been that long since I got back to this first set). Sanded them down to 8K (I know excessive), treated them 4x's with TruOil (buffed with 4K & 8K inbetween each coat), finally coated in renaissance wax and buffed with the 8K polish paper.....
These are the scales to replace the horn scales I 'blew out' in the microwave (remember that post?).
Well, here is my dilema....I think these scales are too nice for the blade! What do I do now?! :thinking:
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