I get a lot of my scale materials from the pet store or the Co-op like bone, horn and antler. Looks good so far.
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I get a lot of my scale materials from the pet store or the Co-op like bone, horn and antler. Looks good so far.
Haven't been to the store for rod yet hopefully this weekend. Here is where I am so far. Got the scales sanded and looking about what I want.
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Need to seal them up and will be good to go.
Here are the blade mods I did.
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I ground the stabilizers off squared up the toe and added a barber's notch. Still sanding the blade. I am up to 1000 grit on one side and 320 on the other. Looking forward to getting it together.
Lookin' good!
GOT IT PINNED! Sorry got excited lol. This is my first anything with a razor besides shaving with one. Now I need to get it honed.
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Ended up coating the scales with polyurethane as I had it on hand.
Couldn't have done any of this without all the info found here.
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One more. Sorry for the crapy cell phone pics
You did a great Job! I have made scales out of bone before but I did not coat them with anything. Here's a Wade & Butcher with a ship on the blade I finished close to a year ago. It also has a brass wedge.
Wow what a great job. You sir went thru alot of issues to produce such a wonderful result. The dust, the stench, the pure torture that bone does to tooling. I dig them alot.
I coated them because I was afraid of finger oils and such staining them. Yours looks great.
Very impressive first time restore...
thanks for sharing