Thread: Keen Kutter in Sea Green Acrylic

Well, I'm no Karl or Joseph, but I needed a break from the vagaries of wood and other natural materials, so I thought I would do a relatively easy rescale before I get sucked back into the vortex in the next few days. This Simmons Hardware Keen Kutter fit the bill perfectly; it only needed some vigorous buffing with 3M Marine Polish to make it darn-near perfect. And I wasn't about to take sandpaper to a near singing-hollow blade with a pristine blade etch and tang stamps, so the few micro scratches get to stay. A turquoise recon wedge, SS cup collars and brass pins complete the package.





Occasionally it's nice to take a break from warping and splitting, thicknessing, bowing and delaminating, etc.
Thanks for looking! Aaron

Very nicely done. The new scales really spiff up the Keen Kutter.

Absolutely stunning Aaron.
You hit this one out of the park!

Pete <:-}

Thanks Richard and Pete-I'm still a lousy photographer lol. I wanted a clear acrylic on this one to show off the pretty blade-face etch even when closed. I was going to maybe go with a white wedge, but my wife (who has an excellent design aesthetic) suggested the turquoise, and it worked better than I expected. I'm also still working on perfecting my beveled-edges on acrylics, but I'm getting there.

Love the clear scales. Nicely done my friend! I got one of those blades too. Great shaver. Love them singing blades.

Very nice! That clear appears so fragile! Likely pretty tough!

Originally Posted by Gasman

Love the clear scales. Nicely done my friend! I got one of those blades too. Great shaver. Love them singing blades.

Thanks Jerry-The thing is, I rarely care for full hollow or singing blades as shavers; they always seem to feel "scrapey" to me no matter how keen and smooth they are-but that's probably just me. But this one just spoke to me, so we'll see what I can do with it on the hones in the next couple of days.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Very nice! That clear appears so fragile! Likely pretty tough!

Thanks, Tom-The acrylic is pretty tough; I just wish it didn't show every scratch and thumbprint, at least on the clear ones. I've got some very beautiful and unusual patterned acrylic from a British supplier that I'm just waiting for one of my blades to tell me it wants to go in.

That's what they do when I get them out to play with (sorry Paul, fondle)-they tell me what kind of scales they want lol!

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

I'm still a lousy photographer lol.

Oh....I think quite possibly you could easily put something together that might merit Shave of the Day.

Pete <:-}

Great work!

Just my opinion but I think that the wedge is to large at the end and throws the whole thing out of proportion.

A very minor thing and not that it don't look great but my thoughts