Dexter themed Wade & Butchers

I was asked if I thought I could make some scales in a Dexter type theme, with blood splatter. I would never have come up with the idea on my own. They were so much fun to do. It was great to massage someone unique idea into the live thing.

As we talked about it, concluded bone scales would be perfect for the theme. So buffalo bone scales. Did the splatter art on top of shaped scales. After dried, epoxy resin outboard side, leaving inboard uncoated, to allow the bone to breath. Originally I was going to do 3 splatter razors. I intended a surprise on the third. That recent Friodur in Mother of Pearl I posted, I was going to splatter also. It looked so nice as a blank canvas, it didn't get the treatment.

One wedge is with camel bone dyed red. Has a similar hue as dried blood. The other was done in acrylic to leave a wet look. Triple washers brass-stainless-brass with nickel pins.

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More info on this razor here

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YES!!!! My favorite show morphed into a straight razor, Love it , great job with the execution Walt

As another Dexter fan I'll just say :tu

Looks like the killer walked in the door & surprised the guy shaving who cut his own throat :p :D

what a nice razor. I love it!

I think you did a great job realizing this project... :tu

Gruesomely good! Now this has me thinking how i might represent one of my favorite shows, True Blood, into a set of scales!

I like how this turned out. Well done.

shes a beauty, and they say shaving is just a way to keep from looking like a grizzly bear. they need to meet us.

Very, very cool. Nicely done

Wow...:chop:
That has got to be one of the more unique set of themed scales that I've seen.
Love'em

Very intersting. Nice job.

Those are really nice.

Wow and I thought they looked nice when I thought they were just acrylic. As bone I'm sure they were much harder to work with but the end result is great. Good call with the fiodur, the MOP on those is perfect I think you made the right call leaving them without the splatter.

Very nice and creative. I love them!

:tameshigiri:Ahh, Dexter! I would like to think there is a bit of him in all good men! Wonderful job, Walt, and very unique, as always! Great workmanship and the blades are beautifully restored as well! I love them! Thanks for sharing!:rock:

Great looking set of razors! Nice job with the splatter. I really like it.

Thats some fine work and a very unique idea. Good stuff!

Well done theme razor. Just remember, don't let him in the house when he comes to pick it up.....just deal with him on the front porch!:dropjaw:

that is awesome! it looks like peppermint candy! I just wanna lick it :)

one of my favourite programs too. really great job, i love em...

On the additional pics, the bathtub looks like a scene from Psycho!
Perhaps you should have photographed them surrrounded by plastic sheeting (a la Dexter)!
Someone could nick themself and not even notice! ;)

Those are extremely cool. A unique design for sure! Nice job on those scales.

Those scales are very nice, they truly look like they are full of blood. How did you do the 3 washer pins, what sizes did you use?

Came out real niiiiiiice DC :tu. Well done :bow

Wayyyyy cool ! Hats off !

I wonder whether Dex would keep 'em in his tool kit, to have have handy while on a job, or keep 'em concealed behind his AC panel, along with his slides...LOL !

Vintage Smurf

These were such a blast to do. I'm glad I could share them with you gents (and ladies). Feels even better having all the encouraging compliments.

I started to make a 'reply with quote' to acknowledge and thank the Dexter specific fan type comments...then realized that'll end up in a yards of scroll down, so didnt.

I too am a fan of the show. I've always felt the ad artwork they use is clean and bold, which is where I tried to go with these.

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Originally Posted by sharptonn

On the additional pics, the bathtub looks like a scene from Psycho!
Perhaps you should have photographed them surrrounded by plastic sheeting (a la Dexter)!
Someone could nick themself and not even notice! ;)

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hahaha. To get in the mood, I did pick up plastic sheeting for this project, thinking just that. Originally I was doing splatter in the garage and had some plastic sheeting for it during moc ups. By the time the scales were ready to take the 'blood', weather cooled down. Had to run a space heater in one of the bathrooms to have in a warm area to work for curing.

I even played around with dipping and flicking various dipped items like an awl, a knife, an old razor, etc to learn a good way to apply. When I mentioned to the owner I was still trying to perfect the splatter technique, he said 'wonder if a spray bottle would work'. Again, I overlooked the easy way, lol. Applied with a spray bottle sucking up lots of air.

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Originally Posted by sharptonn

On the additional pics, the bathtub looks like a scene from Psycho!

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Your work area doesn't look like this when you finish your hobby for the day? lol.
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Originally Posted by jeness

... How did you do the 3 washer pins, what sizes did you use?

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They are size #0 washers from microfasteners.com

FWB0 smallest brass at top, FWBW0 is the widest brass at bottom. Available here.

FWS00 is the middle stainless washer. Available here.

The 1/16" nickel rod came from TexasKnife...I think for this batch.

They look awesome Walt! Perfectly captured! You certainly go all out for every project.

How funny would it have been to have a maid come in and clean up the tub. The look on her face would have been epic.

I think the craftmanship is perfect, however the design I find somewhat disturbing to give you my honest opinion! Red and white reminds me of an ambulance. Had they been simply polished bone, you would have received my upmost praise, but I appreciate the craftmanship as mentioned, and that aesthetics are highly subjective.

They look pretty cool. Nice work on them!

When I opened the thread, before reading it, I didn't think blood-spatter... I thought they looked like:

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