1st attempt at a restoration, need conceptual advice

Hi all. I've never done a restoration, but I recently was given an old Ever Ready 100T handle with a totally beat knot that someone was going to throw away. I rescued it because the handle is actually in pretty good shape.





Naturally, I decided that I need to restore this bad boy. I watched some youtube restoration vids, and think I have the...

1st attempt at a restoration, need conceptual advice

1st attempt at a restoration, need conceptual advice