This will be the last of my "basic hunter", from taken orders (my, I feel better already!).
Scales roughed in, now to put them in the knife vise and do some hand sanding/shaping prior to applying the magic maple finish.
8" OAL, blade 4-1/4", curly maple, 15n20 ht and tempered to RH 62-63 protocols.
I was trying to capture the "essence" of how the Majic Maple came out. Hopefully you can get an idea, no thanks to my shaky images. There's a guy on another forum that does a fantastic job with this stuff. There are other procedures and techniques to get like-results.