Looks good, I totally agree, working on my first right now as well, a belt sander would be nice, spent probably 5 hours hand sanding my scales down from 1/4" slab of wood since my only tools available were a hacksaw to cut out the shape, scotch tape to tape em together, a vice, and a ton of sandpaper lying around.

I like your wedge, im buying a belt sander soon, hand sanding is insanity