I have been drooling over the non-folders by shooter, baldy, paco and of course Charlie Lewis for some time, wishing someday that a razor would fall into my lap that I would be ok with modifying to a non-folder. (not lumping anyone in the "modification" rather than "maker" category, I was just listing my motivations). At the same time, I had this Dubl Duck lying around that was my first restore, and one that I was damn proud of. However, the scales I was so proud of made it impossible to strop, not to mention WAY off balance. So, today I got a wild hair up my butt and decided to use my first restored blade as my first reshaped/cut/ground/blacked/non-folded blade. The pictures to follow depict that process. Hope you enjoy looking at them. I enjoyed making it.
So to recap, this is what we started with.


Unpinned and pulled the blade. I used this as practice for unpinning a razor without marring the scales. I was successful! That was nice to be able to accomplish. This picture is after I profiled the tip and the shoulder.


Milling the handle blank. I started with some beautifully figured walnut, but royally messed the milling up, so scrapped it and went with this. The guy I got it from said it was "lyptus". I'm assuming that is eucalyptus?


Used a drill press to drill holes perpendicular to the end.


Handle roughed out.


Boiling the blade to black it. I used the H2O2/salt/vinegar/boil method like baldy did on his "Darkness" fixed razor.