A pair of Wade & Butchers

I put the scales on this pair of Wade & Butchers a few weeks ago after using them I decided the scales were to big for the razors. This made it necessary (due to perfectionist tendencies) unpinning them and sanding to made the scales smaller I got them back together yesterday. A long story short I noticed the pattern when I was splitting some maple for firewood. That led to finding a piece of quarter sawed maple in my dads workshop and making the scales. I do very little wood working so had to ask one of my brothers who informed me it was called ray flecking, which depending on the use can be considered a imperfection. Finding two pieces with a consistent pattern was a bit of a challenge, I'm mostly happy with how they turned out though.

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Normally I shy away from wood scales, but I love these! Quartersawn maple is awesome, I have a Fender Stratocaster guitar with a quartersawn and laquered maple neck, I just love it. As soon as I saw this unique grain on your scales, I immediately thought "that looks like my Strat!". I've never seen quartersawn maple razor scales before.

Nice work and very unique. Quartersawn guitar necks are theoretically supposed to be more dimensionally stable (old early Gibson guitar necks were all quartersawn), so maybe that extends to razor scales. But whatever - I love the way it looks! :bow

Thanks! We have a sawmill so I have access to quarter sawed lumber. I'm not the brains of the operation though. My brother is the one that actually knows what he's doing. I just stack the lumber and pile the slabs.