Quote Originally Posted by Phrank View Post
Thinking of the potential water surrounding a straight razor, I might think it would be mahagony....only reason I say this is I used to make fishing lures using that type of wood....can't really tell from the grain.
I agree that it could be mahogany as I have a set of mahogany scales and they do look somewhat similar. There was plenty of Honduran mahogany around in the day as fine furniture was made from it. Walnut was also used and seems to be a harder wood. Thanks for your input Phrank. This may be in the "too hard to do category" as a lot of these wood grains tend to look alike to me.