Thread: The General

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



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