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Pre 1890's Wade and Butcher restore. Love it/me or hate it/me.
Soooooo as it says in the book of Ecclesiastes, the end of a matter is better than it's beginning, and truer words have never been spoken in regards to this project.
A month or two ago, I made a thread about warping on scales due to CA glue. I had a lot of helpful responses in that thread, so thank you everyone that contributed. Cangooner really deserves a big thanks here. He spent quite a bit of time with me in private message chats helping me work through some of the problems. I also want to thank gssixgun for putting a wicked edge on this Wade and Butcher.
I know there is a lot of respect for these blades and I tried to not go too crazy. I imagine people will be either in the love camp or hate it camp. Either way, please post your good and bad opinions.
Without further adieu, here's what I got.
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The wood is spalted hackberry and oh mylanta it was a bear to work with. The wood is incredibly soft and sanding in any fashion makes wood disappear with the quickness. It isn't very strong either, so I had to take my time with it. I used black and white ebony for the wedge, and put a little notch in it to compliment the barbers notch. The blade etch says Fine India Steel, and the blade closes very well and it shaves like a beast. I'm still learning the do's and don'ts with razor restoration. The peening isn't 100% perfect, and a scrutinous eye can pick up an imperfection or two in the finish. All that aside, I thought about throwing this project out the window and starting over. I'm so happy that it came out looking as nice as it did. It looks even prettier in person :w
Cheers