When it showed up at the house, I was immediately in love with the size and shape of it, just not it's condition. Because I'm way to eager, I didn't get any pictures before I broke it down, but here's some splayed out befores. pardon the light, it's the worklamp on my table:
active rust everywhere, corroded brass (you can see a partially cleaned liner on one of the pictures). Once I got to cleaning, I realized quickly that the pen blade was a loss. the pitting on the pile side of it covered about 1/3 of the blade, and was deep into it, at least halfway into the blade's thickness. I wouldn't feel safe putting that on a knife I intended to use, even if lightly. The Master spear was a surprise. it looked really bad, but for some minor minor pitting, it cleaned up really well.
Now that I knew I wanted to do a small single blade jack, I decided to be very traditional about it. Pictures are worth 1000 posts
Pinned and epoxied African Blackwood, Serpentine filework. This is the most work I've put into any one knife thus far. More than the canal street (apparently, I only use blackwood when I want to punish myself hehe). AB is really hard to get to photograph. I hope those look alright to you guys.
Far be it from me to just leave you with that, here's a little 34OT I did a couple weeks ago for my brother in law's upcoming birthday. SHHHH Don't tell him
. NS pins, corresponding U filework, some of that awesome splated madrone you all liked so much, cut at an angle this time.
Thanks for peekin!
First Class Job! Very Nice!