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08-09-2011, 02:58 PM #1Senior Member
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WB Special 6/8's with birdseye maple dress.
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This one turned out to be a great shaver today. Lots of polishing to the blade to remove the garbage on it. The original scales were toast so I made new ones from birdseye maple covered with a thinned out wipe on poly. NiAg pins with brass and NiAg washers. I just realized there was still some compound left from buffing them out. oops! Black acrylic wedge. Great edge off the hones.Last edited by Str8Shooter; 08-09-2011 at 03:01 PM.
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08-09-2011, 03:08 PM #2..mama I know we broke the rules...
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Beautiful!
I love the blade. Nice one. The birds eye maple is great too....I need to find some of that! Are you using thin stock, or re-sawing on a band saw?
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08-09-2011, 05:47 PM #3Senior Member
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Thanks Maxi. I took 1/4x1 1/2x9 stock and went from there.
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08-09-2011, 06:07 PM #4Keeping it all STR8
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Lovely blade and scales. Birdseye is really classic. And quite classy.
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08-09-2011, 08:07 PM #5"Nah"
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If there's a Lee Valley in Toronto they have pen blanks in birdseye maple, and a bunch of other fun woods. 6" x 3/4" square. Saw them in half along a diagonal and you get a great scale-sized piece of wood, plus you can choose the orientation of the grain when you cut it. Originally Posted by Maxi
I've got some birdseye scales mostly finished, and some cut pieces of cocobolo, zircote and padauk that I'm dying to get blades in.
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08-09-2011, 10:08 PM #6Predictably Unpredictiable
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Beautiful work.
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08-10-2011, 01:06 AM #7Senior Member
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thanks bro Originally Posted by Mvcrash
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08-10-2011, 09:26 AM #8Lookin like a crim
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Beautiful blade mate, and those scales are just sweet
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08-10-2011, 10:14 AM #9Member
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Excellent work on both blade and scales. I like the birds eye, and the pinning looks really tidy.
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08-10-2011, 03:22 PM #10
Boy, that one is outta the park. 'Very beautiful & nicely executed.
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