After setting up a couple of Gold Dollars I had a go on a restore project. I believe I paid $7 for this Wade and Butcher. Roofing-nail pins, splintered home made scales. Lots of rust. Here's the Ebay photo:
I had to grind the nose just a bit to improve the line of the edge. After many sheets of sandpaper and some steel wool I got something like this:
Nothing fancy with the new scales; black acrylic, wider diameter pivot hole meant using a larger gauge wire for the pins. Steel washers. I cut a brass wedge out of an old key.
It's dimensions aren't big, probably one of the smaller of the Wade Butchers, but it's a heavy slab of a blade even still.
Hasn't been honed yet. I'm still practicing on the GDs.
Thanks for looking-
I had to grind the nose just a bit to improve the line of the edge. After many sheets of sandpaper and some steel wool I got something like this:
Nothing fancy with the new scales; black acrylic, wider diameter pivot hole meant using a larger gauge wire for the pins. Steel washers. I cut a brass wedge out of an old key.
It's dimensions aren't big, probably one of the smaller of the Wade Butchers, but it's a heavy slab of a blade even still.
Hasn't been honed yet. I'm still practicing on the GDs.
Thanks for looking-
good.
