Originally Posted by
Undream
you are correct in that the back side is typically "unfinished".. If you were to sand down that back side from 220-400-600-800-1000 and then buff, you would see that it would appear similar to the "finished" side of your stock material.
Just so you know, if you are using layered G-10 / multicolor, take great care when thinning out -- If you don't thin it out evenly it will become evident very quickly, the different colored layers will start poking through in different places along the length of the scale.
Getting it perfect like Max takes some skill :D or you can leave it 1/8 thick and then just worry about rounding off all the edges perfectly / evenly