Friedmann and Lauterjung’s Celebrated in Camel Bone

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So before I get too deep in the woods on all the wooden rescales I’m doing, I finished up this beautiful Friedmann and Lauterjung Celebrated. It was the first blade I picked from the most recent restoration lot I won on ebay (and was clearly the show-piece of the lot!). Near as I can tell, they were an import business in New York between about 1892? and 1909ish. Like many others, they would put their stamp on German and British blades; this one looks and feels like a Sheffield to me, but I don’t know for sure.

Scales: Austin’s Camel Bone (with an average thickness of .095”). Thanks for all the advice and hand-holding Shaun and Austin. That bone takes some adjustments: just when you think you’ve got it so thin that it will surely break, you need to thin it some more (I wore out the batteries on my digital caliper on this one, and my shop smelled like a thousand root canals!) I just polished them up with Mother’s, rags and elbow grease, Shaun-no compound this time-then finished by buffing in a few coats of Renaissance Wax.
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Collars and Pins: Brass
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Wedge: A scrap piece of dyed/stabilized burl wood that I thought complemented the overall look (I almost went with rosewood with brass liners, but decided on a more contemporary touch in the end).
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She pinned up nice, tight and centered. Though nominally about 6/8,” this is one massive, heavy quarter-hollow grind, with a beefy spine and tang that just feels satisfying in the hand-I can’t wait to hone and shave with it!

Thanks for lookin’-A-aron/SHD

Nice!
I like the Burl wedge too.
If your shop smells like what you are working on, you need better dust collection.

Tell me about it, Shaun-I have taken to putting my flat-top bench grinder that I do the majority of my thicknessing, flattening and profiling on outside my shop on a platform. Back inside, I also do the majority of my refining work on my 2x72" grinder on wet belts that I keep misted. I get better, more precise results, and it eliminates most of the dust-I just clean up the mud afterward. Any heavy and-sanding I like to do out on my deck, so it all (mostly) works out.

Aaron, beautiful job on those nice thin camelbone scales. Thinner is always better. The wedge looks awesome as well. Great job. Austin