Gents,
A while back I took a stab at making my own customized Gold Dollar. Well, I got it done and slapped on a cool set of plastic scales that came on the Gold Dollar Honing Passaround razor that Kentos made and donated to the passaround. That razor got a custom set of scales, so I got to hang on to these... Anyway, they're awesome but didn't really fit the razor and I had the intent to make a set just for this razor.
Well, skip forward a few weeks, and I post a thread about help with wood identification. Most think it was Cocobolo, and now that I have the scales done, I'm 99.99% sure that it is. I was making the scales for another restoration I'm working on, but they turned out so good that I decided they needed to go on my Gold Dollar.
The scales are a Wostenholm copy (love those scales) and the wedge is aluminum. Done in CA with Stainless steel pins.
So without further adieu:
Cocobolo really is my all time favorite exotic wood...
A while back I took a stab at making my own customized Gold Dollar. Well, I got it done and slapped on a cool set of plastic scales that came on the Gold Dollar Honing Passaround razor that Kentos made and donated to the passaround. That razor got a custom set of scales, so I got to hang on to these... Anyway, they're awesome but didn't really fit the razor and I had the intent to make a set just for this razor.
Well, skip forward a few weeks, and I post a thread about help with wood identification. Most think it was Cocobolo, and now that I have the scales done, I'm 99.99% sure that it is. I was making the scales for another restoration I'm working on, but they turned out so good that I decided they needed to go on my Gold Dollar.
The scales are a Wostenholm copy (love those scales) and the wedge is aluminum. Done in CA with Stainless steel pins.
So without further adieu:
Cocobolo really is my all time favorite exotic wood...