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Yay finished....posting pics to restorations forum!

Yay hobby lobby had some thinner sheet metals! Now I can layer my wedge like I wanted

Thinned out the scales...pretty sure part of the issue was the thickness of the scales and not only my wedge....

I hate this Guy...been such a thorn in my side lol

Test fitting....man I love how this is going to turn out...

Waiting for epoxy to finish setting up, didn't clamp points good enough so it didn't hold so had to re-epoxy the brass to the wood wedge....gave up on aluminum and brass will look good anyways so oh...

Not yet no...gonna find some thinner material first or may use some brass but I'd prefer aluminum with the dark wood, plus I needed to stain the wood wedge and apply the polyurethane first anyways

Gotta thin out the aluminum or get thinner stock but wooden core is pretty much ready.

Let me rephrase, wasn't wide enough to set a good angle, making a newer better looking wedge... aluminum with a wood core to match the scales... wedge angle sucked and wasn't thick enough to cut a...

Wedge wasnt wide enough so gotta make a new one, razor wouldnt stay closed :-(
Hopefully I can get it finished tonight after work

Yeah, couldnt find any heavy wire or paper clips to save my life though....all our hangers are plastic nowadays also *sigh*

Always liked the fluted arrowheads, wedge area is inspired by that.

Second coat on, pic with flash shows grain a bit better

First coat of minwax.

So far what y'all think?

And stain is finished

Oops didn't upload lol

Aluminum wedge

Stain is almost done, just put on the third staining, bout dark enough to suit me, cant wait to get it finished, love seeing my work come together!

Staining the scales, hate waiting

Gonna finish this razor by daybreak I hope!

And the blanks I just cut and sanded to shape, figured I'd use the last of the poplar I have till the cherry Burl shows up in the mail!

Next on the to do list till I figure out how to save the etching on my fat Masonic etched chopper I'm putting on the back burner.

Already hand polished other than a little time in the tumbler and...