First up is a C-MON that I received in a barber's lot where I was buying it for the coti. The C-MON was a pleasant surprise and was in good condition save the scales. I buffed it up starting with emory and gave it a unique set of scales in yellow and black swirled acrylic. Nickel washes and pin. Got carried away on the scale design as I wanted to try something different and when done I thought "These scales really belong on a Duck" as that is the first thing they reminded me of. Honed this one up last night to a coticule finish and wow, these take an incredibly sharp edge and gave me some weepers.




Next up is a Frederick Reynolds 6/8 "Rattler" 1/2 or 1/4 hollow. This one I actually just wanted some practice on the buffers as it had a little much hone ware on the spine near the toe and was about 0.05" shorter on the toe.

Started at 400 greaseless at there was a small amount of rust and patina (wish I would have taken a before shot) and worked my way up. I was surprised at how well the blade came out and I took off the 0.05" on the heel side so that the blade was straight all the way across.

The words Rattler made me think of a copperhead for some reason and I thought the orange and black swirled acrylic was appropriate, although may be more like tiger stripes :tongue_sm

Pinned with brass rod and stack washers of stainless and brass. This sucker is heavy and I like the way it turned out. Scales are about 0.09" thick.






This next one is a french frameback I got on the cheap on eBay france (I really, really need to stop looking there)

There were some slight scratch marks on the blade, but I didn't want to take it to greaseless as I was unsure how to keep the blade down while getting to the stuff near the frameback.

Just buffed it up starting with emory and working my way to green rogue.

Scales are ultra thin at 0.080" and I tried to make the wedge narrow as well. Blade centers perfectly and is pinned with nickel rod and stacked stainless and brass washers.

Sucker honed up easily too and I can't wait to shave with this. The bevel is basically perfect width all the way across the blade which sometimes I have a hard time at. This was also my first smiling blade and frameback I honed. Hopefully I did a decent job at it.