My latest restro.

[tomjr]

5/8 Eugene Hoppe, Avos Special, Solingen Germany . Maple scales with shellac finish sealed with ca. Nickel silver pins and stainless washers. my first shellac finish.

[Drybonz]

Nice job. Did you have to do much buffing on the blade? If so, you did a nice job preserving the stamp.

[Greybeard]

Good job. The scales have a nice glow to them and it's a great blade.

[Doc226]

Very nice, I like the 3 pin look.

[EvilZeg]

Wow, very nice job.

[grump]

Very nice, way to make it your own. I like the stripes on the maple.

[turtle]

WOW... Those scales glow... Nice work!

[tomjr]

Drybonz, the blade required a bit of buffing on both sides id say 20 to 25% of the blades faces were dark but not that many pits at all they all came out. the blade face on front has a very few dark spots right on the etch which i mostly left alone to preserve the etch. tom

[mycarver]

Looks very slick! Nice job. The scales really pop.

[Skrymr]

Nice. The scales almost glow. They have a great grain pattern to them also.

[trick420]

Beautiful Tom! You say Shellac sealed with CA? Does that mean you built up a shellac coat and then went over it with CA? Or did you seal the grain with CA and then build shellac over that?

[tomjr]

i seales the interior with CA shellac everywhere.

[Jbum]

All the beautiful straights are about to make me convert from DE.