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    Default My $60 Wapienica...

    What do you do with a $12 razor that outshaves your $60-$100 razors? Why, send it to Joe Chandler for a set of horn scales...

    I love my Wapienicas, and I thought one deserved to be promoted to a very special place in my rotation.

    Joe made a set of black horn scales, which turned out beautifully. He was kind enough to humor my requests on the shape of the scales and on the red spacer, a nod to the razor's Soviet bloc past.

    I asked for him to engrave my initials, and he selected this font, which I think is perfect.

    Thanks a million, Joe! You are an artist.

    Josh
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    Good grief! I love it! Thanks for sharing.
    Ernest

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    My too. I can't stop staring at it.

    Josh

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    I like it

    Cheers
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    Wow... looks amazing.


    Must.... resist...
    "But you're not as confused as him are you. I mean, it's not your job to be as confused as Nigel. "

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    That's beautiful.

    How did he do the engraving? was that an acid etching, or a true engraving?

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    I love it.

    I have one Wapienica with black ebony scales on it, and it looks nice. I have to remove them, and put a gloss finish on them though...

    Nenad

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    Wow Josh - that's come up amazing! These Wapis - is there anything they can't do

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    What a great upgrade. How does it feel with respect to balance now it no longer has CS scales?

    I guess the etching means this one won't be sold to a newbie sometime in the future?

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    Wow! Simple yet very, very cool. I see the metal used in those hold Start Treaty dismantled ballistic missiles is much better than the steel in those Russian T-34 tanks in Pakistan! Woooo Hoooo.

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