Wade & Butcher 9/16ths Wedge in American Cherry
LADIES AND GENTS:
It has been an eventful week! I recieved my tumbler two weeks ago, and then my computer's motherboard cooked. This weekend I have built my new computer (that's a whole other thread right there...) and now have access to SRP..
and am proud to announce another completed restoration. This W&B was in fair, but dirty shape. As I am currently hand sanding some rougher blades I dropped it into the tumbler and made it a new set of cherry scales in the shape of the original but damaged blonde horn.
The scales have been hand-filed to be precisely the same profile, with no dips or rises detectable by the eye or the hand. The finish is 4 layers of polyurethane, which I have hand rubbed to a silky smooth and glasslike finish offering fine quality of depth and warmth.
The pictures just don't show the way this cherry lights up- it is fine stock, and every angle illuminates new crossgrains. Truly lovely!
Walnut wedge, brass pins and stacked ss-brass washers. Feedback much desired!
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