I just finished up this razor this evening, and it turned out pretty well overall. I remembered to take before pictures this time! As you can see, it had some rough looking scales and a lot of patina and hone wear on the blade. What the pics don't show is the warp that I had to grind out so the edge could lay true!!
Removing the extra metal (effectively wearing the spine a lot more) shows in the final product but made for a razor that lays flat and *should* be not overly difficult to hone except for fixing the current uneven bevil.
I did not polish to a full mirror like I originally wanted because there were lots of deep tooling marks (plus my flattening grind) in the blade and I did not want to remove that much metal. In addition, I also wanted to keep the etch intact.
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I had to trash the original scales after attempting to fill the dents and fix the crack because they were simply too brittle. I went for some plain acrylic scales and put a satin finish on them. I glued the wedge for right now, but looking at it now I will probably go ahead and pin it tomorrow:)
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