Thread: Beginners restorations

Hi there, I've rescently decided to try my hand at restoring some of my demic blades I've accrued over the past 6 months, I'm in the uk so I'm still struggling to source washers, pins and scale material at an affordable price but I've had a bash anyhoo, what do you think?? My first is a warranted, hollow ground in walnut stained beech wood..
I used the wood from a cooking spatula for the scales. I managed to get hold of some pieces of horn and scaled a wade and butcher...
And then an old w. gilchrist I had some fun with.... More pics in next post