My first attempt

[bjorn]

Hi, I thought I should show you my first attempt at a resto.

It's a small W&B 5/8 wedge, it had some chipps in the edge so it's now a little under 5/8, scales where white plastic, and chipped, so they had to go as well.

The blade still shows pitting, and in the pic's the tang looks really bad, but in real life it's not that bad. All of the sanding was done by hand and I'm not sure if I want to go down that road again

Scales and spacer are oak and finished with 6 coats of danish oil, one the inside and outside of the scales, and 3 coats of wax on the outside, I think they turned out rather nice. It's peened together using brass rod and brass washers.

Honed it up tonight and did a test shave, fun razor to shave with!

Lessons learned:

- Hand sanding takes time, a lot of time
- Never hone a wedge without taping the spine
- Scalemaking require practice
- Remeber to take a "before" picture of the razor



Since I did this as practice on a "junk" razor, I'd appreciate any feedback