Thread: Wade & Butcher medium hollow rehandled in Olive

Thanks! I just clamped it in a vise and eyeballed it. I also worked from both sides of the tang, to hopefully minimize any out of perpendicular lines. It seemed to help. I suppose could hold a parallel against the razor is you really wanted to square things up.

Nice razor, Sir!

X

that's awesome!! I love the way you did the jimps. one gripe I really have on some of the customs I've seen is that they are doing it obviously one row at a time you can tell because the spacing isn't perfect and the depth isn't consistent. this looks great. I'm thinking about ordering one of these tonight. I think the 20lpi worked out great, would you say you should have gone higher or that feels/looks good?

Red

Thanks Red! I haven't finished honing the razor yet, but I hope to shave with it either tonight or tomorrow morning. After shaving with it I should have a better idea as to whether 20 lines per inch is enough. (I bought the file to put thumb grooves on knives, but the W&B was the first time I've actually used it.)

Someone asked me how I cleaned up the razor, yet still kept the dark lettering. Actually I didn't; I cleaned off the coloring, then put it back later.

I used a vibratory tumbler, various grits of abrasive paper, and a buffing wheel to clean up the blade. By that time, any coloring was gone from the lettering. I didn't like that, so I used a Birchwood Casey Presto Gun Blue Pen to blue/blacken the lettering. (The link is to Cheaperthandirt, but you can get them at sporting goods and hardware stores.) Of course it gets on the blade around the lettering too, so I used 2000 grit paper to gently remove the excess. The 2000 grit worked pretty well, but it leaves a bit of a mat finish on the otherwise polished blade. It looks pretty good, but I may try some 2500 grit next time. After cleaning up the lettering, I used Windex with Ammonia-D to (hopefully) neutralize any left over bluing solution.

Very nicely done Christopher! Love the wood and your eye for detail.

Beautiful work!!

FYI, the thanks from me was in large part due to your putting direct hyperlinks to the things you used, I thought that was very cool.

Red