Some questions about, polishing, scales and the little wedge.

[Svisson]

Soo I have starteded out with Gradwell razor, im almost done on one side of the blade. Just some dark pittings that I will remove with WD40 and steelwool 0000. The other side I will be more carefull with, since there is some text on it. Just steelwool 0000 and WD40 to clean it up and then some sandpaper on the other spots to get a smoother blade.

However I have a few questions.

The scales are black buffel horn. One is little shorter then the other and I have been able to straighten them out. But I think the drilled holes is a little bit of. If I put the pins through the wholes with blade and wedge they aint straigt.
Can I fill the wholes with epoxy and then drill new ones and make sure they are straight and even? Or is it a better way?

The wedge is little small and thin. Maybe its okey, but its a pretty wide blade and feels like it should be little thicker. But since im new to stragiht razor restauration im not sure how it should look, but wedges on other razors is thicker. (Its made from some soft metal i think)
Should I use it as it is, or can I make a new one. And what material is good in that case?

And also, the whole in the blade is wider then the once in the scales, I guess this wont be a problem, but is there anything I can do about that to or should I just go with it?

When it comes to polishing, I bought a machine that i modified to use for polishing. But what kind of metal polish is good to use on a spinning wheel polisher


Thats what I bought and I removed the stones and put some polishing weel on it instead. I now all about being carefull and soo, and im making sure not to go to long and heat up the blade to much.
Thinking of turning one of the original stones to a sanding machine, something like what I saw in the library. But thats in the future.


Soo really what Im asking is.
Best way to drill new wholes in scales if they aint even.
How thin should I wedge be?
What do I do when the whole in the blade is wider then on th scales?
What polishing compounds would be good to use. Enough with some typical white and blue?
Also woundering, the razor didnt have any inner washers, should I ad or not? Where do I buy if Im gonna ad them?


Thanks in advance
Svisson