I finally finished my BrunoBlade off.
After much deliberation on adding an inlay which I just couldn't get right to match my imagined idea,
I decided I didn’t want to screw up the nice work so far so ditched the inlay for now (so I could use it) until I can get the cutting process right
I hope you enjoy & are inspired to complete your own
Original
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Finished
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sorry for the photo quality they were all taken post shave this morning
Final size is a mickey hair over 15/16” after re straightening
Blade – BrunoBlade O1 Spanish point monkey tail
Scales – Black Buffalo horn
wedge – Brass
Thrust washer, Pins & washers - Brass
Total of about 27 hours spent to date with 95% hand sanding & tooling
Blade shaping & sanding - an easy 18 hrs (could have saved a couple of hours odd with lessons learnt)
Scales - about 5 hrs
Wedge - 2 hrs
pinning - about 0.5 hrs
honing - 1.5 hrs
Honing – I used a combination of the 40 Circles, 40 X strokes & tried a bit of pyramiding for the finish
Bread knifed - Norton 360 oil stone @ about 30-45º (needed to remove a frown I managed to sand into the edge as my bevel shows)
Bevel set - Naniwa 1K - 4 layers of tape then dropped to 2 layers of tape for final set
Main polishing - Norton 4/8k
Finisher - Naniwa 12K
Stropped – Big Daddy – 100 laps of Felt then about 150 on leather
My intention is to later re-hone it done to a single layer of tape & keep it that way the same as the rest of my blades.
The first shave went very well on Easter morning with about 5 days growth
I am quite chuffed & happy with the finished product
would I do it all again?
Yes but definitely not fully from 80 grit by hand, as my fingers start cramping just thinking about the hand sanding
I would invest in a buff with compounds long before I do it again LOL