Thread: Walnut is nice

This is my favorite restoration to date. The blade is a really nice 13/16 Sheffield steel number stamped "Venture, Slater Brothers." The blade face reads "Hamburg Ring." (Does anyone know what this means? I've seen it on a number of brands...) I sanded it to a 400-grit finish, and there's only the slightest hint of staining now in a couple of spots.

The scales are walnut, sanded to 2000-grit and finished with tung oil. The pins are brass. The spacer is the original spacer--I think it's pewter.

I really liked the way this wood came out. I got some thinner stock at a local hobby store--it seems like it might be slightly less than 1/8" thick. They give the razor a nice slim profile. This one will be going up in the BST forum soon.

Josh

P.S. Recognize the blade, David?

Drooooooool.........

Very nice. Walnut is one of my favorite woods.......



Greg

Walnut is very nice mate... wonderfuly excellent work !!


One of the things (aside from the obvious) that makes me cry about the australian gun buy-back is that literally tons of beautifully figured walnut and other hard to get timbers was crushed and dumped.

The uses for it by wood-workers and other hobbiests are too many to list.


Anyway... again... exceptional work mate.

Greg Frazer

Originally Posted by Greg Frazer

Walnut is very nice mate... wonderfuly excellent work !!


One of the things (aside from the obvious) that makes me cry about the australian gun buy-back is that literally tons of beautifully figured walnut and other hard to get timbers was crushed and dumped.

The uses for it by wood-workers and other hobbiests are too many to list.


Anyway... again... exceptional work mate.

Greg Frazer

I feel ya Greg --- destroying perfectly good walnut has to be a sin ---- and great work Josh.

Justin

REALLY nice job Josh! I was expecting you to do something nice with this one, but not this nice. It seems like you are getting better with each one. Keep up the great work buddy

oohh.. Very nice .... I'll start trolling the BST forum now...

THat's very nice. Elegant and simple. Walnut has always been attractive to me.

X

That's very nice, and the walnut looks really good.

You must have gotten a huge nut to be able to make scales out of it