This is my first straight razor. I purchased shave ready from Bucca(which was worth every penny and then some) and got 50 shaves out of it before I started honing and buying my own razors to fix up and keep sharp. This one went into a drawer and stayed there for a couple years.
I had planned on ordering some honey horn to scale this blade but I'm so cheap I ended up using wood again even though I REALLY want a nice set of translucent set of honey horn scales.
The wood I used is butternut aka white walnut. A former teaching colleague of mine had a tree go down in her back yard a few years ago and I offered to take it off her hands thinking I could use it for a guitar build or 10. I built a chainsaw mill to slab it out and I got as far as slabbing out one 3 foot log. I thought to myself hey, I can cut some of that tree up that's been sitting there "seasoning" for over 4 years now having no idea what kind of tree it even was. Off to the bandsaw I went...
Anyway...enough of the non-essential information nobody asked for. I used the butternut, a mahogany wedge, and finished it with 15 or so coats of tru-oil. The butternut is softer and less dense than the maple and mahogany I've used before, so I'm thinking the horn scales may still end up happening for this razor at some point. Here it is, and then with the 2 other Gold Dollars I've played around with.
Here it is with it's cousins in bone and in a maple/mahogany 2 tone, both of which are great shavers.
Now to hone this one up
I had planned on ordering some honey horn to scale this blade but I'm so cheap I ended up using wood again even though I REALLY want a nice set of translucent set of honey horn scales.
The wood I used is butternut aka white walnut. A former teaching colleague of mine had a tree go down in her back yard a few years ago and I offered to take it off her hands thinking I could use it for a guitar build or 10. I built a chainsaw mill to slab it out and I got as far as slabbing out one 3 foot log. I thought to myself hey, I can cut some of that tree up that's been sitting there "seasoning" for over 4 years now having no idea what kind of tree it even was. Off to the bandsaw I went...
Anyway...enough of the non-essential information nobody asked for. I used the butternut, a mahogany wedge, and finished it with 15 or so coats of tru-oil. The butternut is softer and less dense than the maple and mahogany I've used before, so I'm thinking the horn scales may still end up happening for this razor at some point. Here it is, and then with the 2 other Gold Dollars I've played around with.
Here it is with it's cousins in bone and in a maple/mahogany 2 tone, both of which are great shavers.
Now to hone this one up
