1788 light cavalry sabre

[Ken Maddock]

Hi Miguel
No problem at all to give my procedure,
Unfortunately I am unable to find pictures of the process I took a long time ago
I did put the information on sword forum international
If I am ok to put hyperlinks to other forums I would appreciate it if you can confirm this or not
On the refurb quandary, I feel a lot of quiet heavy cleaning is carried out by some members on this forum, something I do only as a last resort
But to each their own I suppose, the thing is once you start then you have to finish and if the job goes bad you have a bitter pill to swallow.
I have only replaced when there was nothing there of the original handle.
Now on my sword that there is history of previous bad repair I am more stuck on what to do,
If this repair was carried out 100 years ago should I be the one to un do this work?.
Hard to know
Regards
Ken