Brazilian rosewood... and one for me :)

[ToxIk]

I've been working with some Brazilian rosewood lately, and, I was certain from the moment tung oil touched it, that tung was the finish to go with. Though, I figured I'd try one with CA anyway to test my gut instincts.

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The one on the left is finished with CA and the one on the right with tung oil. It barely shows in the pictures, but I do feel that the tung oil finish warms up the wood a little and also brings out abit more depth in it. Just goes to show that there really is no universal finish

Anyway, I also have some more pictures of the CA finished rosewood bruckmann razor I've been working on, so without further adue...

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The razor itself has been polished all the way up to 2000 grit and then buffed quite abit. Unfortunently, there was some etching on the face of the blade that I just couldn't keep, but, I'm still very happy with the product. The two little inlayed brass pins near the third pin on the razor were actually a mistake I accidentally drilled the third pin in the wrong place, so I just drilled two more for symmetry and then filled in the holes with polished up brass rod.