Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Vintage Sabatier Refurb

Here's a vintage carbon Bresduck Sabatier that's been completely refurbed. 


I started by re-setting the profile where the heel/tang section had been neglected during sharpening, then I removed rust from the blade through grinding and thinned it a bit at the same time, then a new buckeye burl handle was installed (not an easy one at all - the tang and bolster were so whacked!!!), then finished up with an overall polish/clean & sharpen. 




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