7/8 Japanese Western

Here is my latest restore.
It's a 7/8 Perikan. It was a rusted out junker I got off the bay.
It's been hand sanded, reshaped heel and toe to get rid of the rust that had eaten thru the blade, tumbled and polished.
The scales are a red orange acrylic with a black wedge.
I went pinless on the front (idea borrowed from Ambrose, thanx bud!).
Hope you guys like it, any and all comments and pointers are welcome!!


Sorry for crappy Iphone pix

That is a fantastic job, particularly after considering the before photo!

Nice work! What did you use to reshape the heel and toe? I might have to take a second look at some of those on eBay.

Aussieshaver said:

That is a fantastic job, particularly after considering the before photo!

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Thanks, I wish I would have taken more before photos, I always forget, I just get anxious and want to start working on them, that I forget.

Harvitz81 said:

Nice work! What did you use to reshape the heel and toe? I might have to take a second look at some of those on eBay.

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Thanks Harvitz, I used one of the orange grinding stone attchements on my Dremel, and a coarse grit sanding drum attachement. No one bid on it cuz it was in bad shape, and i was actually looking for something to practice grinding on, the $5 shipped price was a no brainer, especially cuz it was rusted in the areas that I wanted to reshape !!

Until I saw the before picture I never would have thought that it wasn't the original design of the blade. You did a great job with the lines, plus the scales lines compliment it very nicely.

Nice job!

Great job Ernie!

I found a few straights with pitting or damage right at the tip and turned them into Spanish points.

Nice

Wow, that's amazing.

dakotaev said:

Until I saw the before picture I never would have thought that it wasn't the original design of the blade. You did a great job with the lines, plus the scales lines compliment it very nicely.

Nice job!

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azmark said:

Great job Ernie!

I found a few straights with pitting or damage right at the tip and turned them into Spanish points.

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ambrose said:

Nice

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Wid said:

Wow, that's amazing.

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DaButcher said:

Beautiful, like it a lot!

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Thank you guys, I appreciate the kind words

Nice work. I never remember the before photos either. At least not when it's still before.

Beautiful work. Love this blade.

Wow. Incredible work. More of a resurrection than a restoration! Looks like a race car in those red scales. Point looks original. How do you do scales without a pin in the wedge and?

BSAGuy said:

Wow. Incredible work. More of a resurrection than a restoration! Looks like a race car in those red scales. Point looks original. How do you do scales without a pin in the wedge and?

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Superglue and clamp them.



Too bad Nerdman isn't on the forum these days.

Has anyone heard from Nerdman at all recently?