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Yep, heat gun, putty knife, terrible initial glue job and deceptive angle. I kinda bent the handle bits as I was taking them off so it now no longer sits flush on the blade neck. Another whoops.

So I opened up a cheapie Chinese to improve my skillz and this happened... Whoops.

Soo...I opened up a cheapie Chinese blade to improve my handle removing skillz and found this. Hmm.

Had a full 4 hour knock today with my own beast, modded from 85 to 110, to do Der proud. My first failed attempt used two hurricanes, and not the regular ones, of course I went and chose the stupidly heavy versions. That was an absolute mistake as I couldn't accelerate the setup with any speed...

Small update on beast mods: For the life of me I couldn't get my WSC to fill properly, not until after many experiments, I used sawdust and superglue and just filled up what the PVA left as a gaping hole. Seem to work fine, will see how it plays now.

Damn it, had to join to look at the lovely pics. Anyway, I have also beast-modded a few beauties... the H.S.Cryzer (5-ply hinoki), and a Waldner Senso Carbon. The Cryzer was a second hand blade I picked up and the handle had no chance vs my scalpel. My YEO on the other hand...RIP my good...