Thread: Sheffield Wedge in Smoke Acrylic

I've been feeling the need for another wedge in the rotation so this one recently jumped to the top of the restoration pile. There is no maker's mark on the tang, and it only cost me 10 bucks so I felt free to get a little experimental with it.
I gave it a barber's notch, ditched the original scales, and used greasless compound for the first time.
Caswell Australia only stock 120, 150 and 180 grit greasless, but that got the hard part out of the way and the rest was hand sanded. The pitting on the blade was actually worse than I expected but cleaned up pretty well. There are still a few marks left on the blade but I'm pretty happy with it.
It has one of those tangs that are tapered on one side and flat down the other and so was a royal PITA to get to close neatly to center, but I got it there in the end.
I'm still not 100% sure whether the modern scales suit the old Sheffield wedge, the wife doesn't like them. But I think it works.
Scales are smoke acrylic with translucent white acrylic wedge, NiAg pins on S/Steel washers.
Grant