Thread: Rubbed the snake off

I finally got some time to work on razors. I had a set of snake skin wood scales and started sanding. The wood looked like snake skin when I started. Now they are mostly smooth plain wood. Any idea how to get the scales back? Not sure I wanted jiggered wood as it seemed before. I tried water and mineral spirits to see if finish would bring it out. No luck yet.

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To me (an I'm no expert) it looks like they used a combination of a dremel an a scribe to get that texture but I could be completely wrong. An as for the coloring it may have been just thicker staining in the darker areas.

Little confused

The dimpling is often called Picking or Picked you find it most often on old Bone handle pocket knives when it is called Picked -Bone, It is done with a picking Awl, or you can actually dimple the wood by using a hammer and a small Doming Punch

Snakewood is an actual type of wood I cant tell if that is Snakewood from the pics

This is a set I did 6 years ago in Snakewood so you have an idea

http://straightrazorpalace.com/custo...snakewood.html

Yep that's what I was hoping for when I bought it. Now I'm not sure what it is. I went to the site I bought if from and it's no longer listed. If memory serves it was called Indian snakewood.
Picked, I've never hear of before. I have heard of jiggered as in knife or bone handles.
I have a suspicion I've been hoodwinked. I was hoping someone had worked with it would tell me if the pattern came out with finish. So far, I'm betting it won't.
Curses to the internet!!!

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Contacted the seller. Originally sold as snake skin wood. They said the Indian translation "kiln dried wood from a very small snake". Hmm. Also not laminated skin.
I wonder if it could be stained to look like snake wood. We'll see where inspiration takes it. It is a very hard dense wood. It polishes well.

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I've decided it's bone. It seems the seller knows as little as I do. [emoji12]

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