Thread: The General

Originally Posted by OCDshaver

Here is one that our friend Stefan did for my in a similar horn.

Thats a beautiful restore as well Stefan does indeed do great work~

I fell in Love with the pins the second I saw them! Perfect in every way! Man, how do you have time to do so much machining? Oh ya, you own a machine shop! So do you make money machining or do you spend your days making these beautiful pieces of Art work? Great job Daryl!

P.S: The Scales aren't bad either

Phil
Kind Regards,
Classic Edge Shaving Store

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Lots of you know I just don't make scales. I usually find a nice old blade and wait patiently for the right scales to come along with a trashed blade!
Some of you, I will expect, also know I just love old Greaves razors. I often say "Greavses Have Souls"!! This one was obviously made to commemorate General Winfield Scott, "Old Fuss and Feathers"!
As I have had this blade in the original wedgeless horn scales with iron collars for several years, I disassembled it and found the old scales were too rotten to attempt any repairs. Enter my good razor buddy Darl (Tarkus). He has been making some beauties of wood and scored a pile of horn to work with. After some extreme begging and pleading, I sent him the disassembled razor, the original iron collars and some of Babur's "Big n Littles" domed ones as well with some bronze rod. I gave him complete artistic control with only a request of some cool black horn streaked with white and a thinly-veiled suggestion of how nice it would be if he could perform the "wedgeless wonder"..........
As I opened the mail today, I was taken aback!! Not only had he done the scales up super, there were my wedgeless scales in fine streaked horn, a beautiful bow the sides, brass domes pinned with bronze, and the General sitting pretty!!

A beautiful job, Darl! My Thanks and Admiration!
Tom

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I wonder what I can get him to do next?? HAR!

Just saw this, you did a very nice job...TOP notch.

The whole thing is a beaut, but the pins and scales are amazing!

Tarkus
That is one very beautiful job well done & you couldn't have done any better. The scales are very close to looking like original & i like them very much. When I make scales, I have a belt sander, files, sandpaper & such. I don't have any other machines other than a lathe that isn't here yet, Dremel, a drill press & a buffer so I usually have to do most by hand. I love machines, I wish I could own more. You did an awesome job on those scales!!!!

Love it.
Love the size of the blade pins. It adds some bulk look to the scales to match up to the size of the blade.