Thread: It's Cyclone season!

All puns aside I decided it was time to get off my duff and begin to rescale this razor that I've fallen in love with since I began using a few months ago.
I wish I could find more of these Gunkels Barber supply razors but they appear to be fairly rare. This is just some progress photos, one before.The bladed needed very little, cleaned the tang with some super fine steel wool and detergent, then polished.The old scales had an extra pin hole at the wedge end,some warpage.The wedge is a butterscotch colored piece of bakelite(I'm guessing,smelled vaguely like mothballs when lightly scuffed with sandpaper). The scales are red oak and of course the drill walked on me so I have to wood filler one side and redrill, then finish up my sanding. I haven't decided whether to lightly stain these or just clear coat.

The mothball smell (camphor) would be celluloid.
A couple of sealer coats of orange shellac will give a warm color pre clear coat.

I'm a fan of tung oil, shellac as a midcoat, then marine lacquer as a sealer. This tends to work well at keeping the natural feel/warmth of the wood while giving a water safe.