Hello folks! Today I will show you a great restoration of the cossack shashka of the sample of 1881. The condition is terrible! When I first saw this sword , I asked, what is there to restore? But as practice shows, the world is waiting for new achievements from me and I am starting this unreal restoration!

The first step is to weld rotten metal. But how?! There the thickness at the edges was less than 0.5 mm… It took a huge amount of time. I started to brew the hole, then sanded it, then again, and so on indefinitely.
After welding, I moved on to cleaning the blade. But very carefully, because it is thin and I could create new problems for myself-tasks.

I cleaned the dirtiest places with sand at low pressure. Further, to hide the irregularities after welding, I filled everything with tin-lead alloy and sanded the surface with sandpaper.

It looks much better! The handle of the saber! This type of shashka sword has a kind of handle where many factors need to be taken into account. I made it out of wood, as it was in the original.
After cutting out the handle, I boiled it in oil, dried it and covered it with a special protective varnish for wood. Now this handle will definitely live for more than 100 years.

I made the scabbard for the saber out of wood and pasted it with thin genuine leather. I received the original fittings (details) from my friend for scabbard.

They were found and brought to me directly from the ground, where the parts had been lying for more than 100 years. I cleaned all the parts for the scabbard with sandblasting. All the irregularities and holes were soldered, but not all in some places the metal was extremely thin and failed. Iron parts were coated with iron oxide, (so that they no longer rust) dried with a hairdryer and applied graphite grease.

I leveled the brass parts with wood and a mallet, drilled the old rusty and oxidized screws, substituted new ones.
I successfully installed all the details on the scabbard, added a bayonet from the Mosin system of the old model and now I have a complete set of the Cossack shashka of 1881 year together with the bayonet. The item was transferred to the museum.
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