7/8 W&B in Abalone Shell

**Joe Edson** · 01-20-2011, 01:07 AM

Razor is a 7/8 W&B fully restored with the tang stamps fully intact. Had a bit of pitting to work through, but is now pitting free, though I did have to round the french point a little to remove some pitting there on the edge. Scales are made from Real Abalone Shell that is enclosed within a thin red acrylic backing and a colorless, clear acrylic front. The wedge spacer is made out of black G10 and is completely flush with the scales with no gaps. The peening was done with nickel/silver alloy rod and stainless steel washers. The razor sits tight in the pivot pin and centers absolutely dead on.

I initially never liked the look of shell scales, but after this I'm definitely going to make one of my personal razors in this.

I absolutely love this razor and it is hard letting it go, but I still have a stack of W&B's to work through so I'm sure I'll get one done to replace it in my personal stash.

Before photo's

After:

**Rmaldon240** · 01-20-2011, 01:43 AM

Joe,
That's a wild pair of scales. I really like the look of those.
Nice.

**dirtychrome** · 01-20-2011, 01:53 AM

That looks slick. Super job on the blade clean up.
I may be prejudice, but I think this looks great.

You and Brandos recent post schooled me that the shell looks good on a big blade.

Yours also shows me round corners look nice in this material.

**HamburgO** · 01-20-2011, 02:53 AM

Wow! Absolutely beautiful piece of work, very "outside the box"!

**32t** · 01-20-2011, 03:11 AM

NICE!

Tim

**eTom** · 01-20-2011, 05:22 AM

Well done, I like it!

**Catrentshaving** · 01-20-2011, 05:46 AM

Very nice. A fine job indeed

**a_macdiarmid** · 01-20-2011, 06:10 AM

echo'ing the rest. looks fantastic.

**Joe Edson** · 01-20-2011, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by HamburgO

Wow! Absolutely beautiful piece of work, very "outside the box"!

Originally Posted by 32t

NICE!

Tim

Originally Posted by eTom

Well done, I like it!

Originally Posted by Catrentshaving

Very nice. A fine job indeed

Originally Posted by a_macdiarmid

echo'ing the rest. looks fantastic.

Thanks guys!

To be honest I never would have even opted for the shell scales. In all the photo's I've seen of them I've always been lukewarm.

Then Masecraft goes and gives me a free sample and I decided to see how they looked on a W&B since I just bought a lot of 5 of them.

In person I really, really like them and have enough material for one more set of scales. Definitely planing on dressing up one of my personal blades and I guess Masecrafts free sample worked as in my next order I'm going to be ordering some more material.

**sharptonn** · 01-20-2011, 11:56 PM

Amazing job! While the scales are sweet, the blade is surely a testimonial to your skills ! Beautiful !

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