7/8 Wade & Butcher For Barber's Use in Leopardwood

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The is one of two W&B's from Brian that are coming off the bench...you might remember this one from the Lined Wedge thread in the workshop

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...ned-wedge.html

This is a heavy near full wedge that was pretty beat up when it got here...




This one required a near full regrind to get rid of the bad wear and the pitting after that I went from 80 grit Greaseless compound to 600 grit on the low speed buffer This was followed by Emory up through Chrome compounds on the high speed buffer... The results came out to a near perfect mirror finish...

The scales were Brian's choice of Leopardwood I decided on an Ebony & Brass lined wedge to keep the heavy blade balanced with the lighter Leopardwood... I managed to keep a very unique knot on the front side scale, I wish I could have found a matching one for the backside but I wasn't that lucky...The scales were sealed with Dem-Bart and final finished with Premalyn....
The hardware is all brass using stacked washers and the oversized pivot hole was sleeved also...











I tried for a close up here to show the finished wedge...