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It's satin until you start with the wipe on coats as described above.

Yes, 24 hr soak, then 24 dry.
Then 6 coats wiped on, dried and 0000 mesh sanded between coats.
coat of Meguiar's car polish at the end.

i found the before picture. It had one of those Bamboo looking scales, which were broken at the wedge end.
52017

Yes I am, to my own detriment.

Be careful in handling it. They use the bark to make a laxative. Wear a respirator!

So far I have done Cocobolo and now Cascara. I will continue to use both in the future.
I have however, just received a bunch of acrylic and horn from Masecraft.
BTW, I highly recommend Masecraft...

I started messing around with a piece of wood a good friend of mine gave me to try. It didn't look like much when raw. I was practicing making a shape on the scales, tapering from the wedge end back...