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My first scales and blade restore.
After following your advise and great info here and on the stuff you guys put on youtube here is my first restored straight razor.
Bought the cheapest piece of wood from Home depot as i was not sure what i was going to end up with.
Did sanding on this very dirty straight starting from 120 grit to 3000 grit by hand then polished it with Mothers mag cleaner.
Made a funky set of scales and then added about 8 coats of shellac pinned and Voila.
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this is what it looked like before:
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After all this i have followed Lynns youtube video and used my Naniwa 1000 to set the bevel and then Norton 4000/8000 combo to finish.
And it actually shaves pretty good.
I don't have a better finishing stone but i have ordered a chinese 12k stone to see if there will be a difference.
But man is it fun to shave with your own creation.
Have made 4 more in the meantime as this is amazing.
Keep up all the great info you guys put out here and have a great day,