Thread: Red G10 leaf inlay.

Hi everyone! It´s been far to long since i posted anything here but i finally managed to get some spare time from work and everything else. So i decided to restore a straight razor my stepmother asked if i could try to save for her since she wanted to use it for hairdressing. I found it really pleasant to do this at my work since we already have all the kind of necessary tools there, damn it´s so much easier to work when you have all you need for razor restores! Anyway i had the handles done and started to pin the bottom of it when that bastard splintered! So i thought id give some of our epoxy glues a try and see if I could save it anyway, thankfully it didn´t let me down. I also decided i wanted to try and make some kind of inlay in the handle, the dremel tool sure is handy to have when you do this kind of stuff Well here is the final product, let me know what you think of it! Take care and stay well everyone!

Oh yeah now i only need to hone it also, forgot that Also i skipped the washers for the pinning since i didn´t find any i liked :P

Nice work, what did you use to hold the inlay in?

Thank you Well i scooped up some remains of the grinding dust from when shaping the handles and mixed it with a two component epoxy glue. It kinda gets like a filler/glue, works like a charm.

Very nice. Like that shade of red. Don't miss the washers at all.

Nice work. Just a thought on the washerless thing. That may be why there was splintering. Peening the pin involves expanding the ends of the pin. With a washer, thiscexpansion stress is taken upon by the washer. Without, it goes right to the wood.
Also, are there two pins on the wedge end? If those are the pins I see then they are close to the edge of the material, which didnt help the situation.
Keep up the nice work.

Thank you Ah well i had the washers on when i tried to do the peening but i think that the rods i used was made of a too hard metal to get the head to spread out. And yes i realized that the two holes i made are way to close to the end of the handle and also that the bottom part of the handle is kind of rounded off which makes it very difficult not to bend the rods when trying to get the head to spread out. Thanks for the advices Oh i will and now i have some spare days ill probably use them to finish off some more razors i have

If your rod stock is a copper alloy you can anneal the rods. There is a good bit of useful information in the Annealing Brass thread. But the instructions I find to be the best are found in Working Man's Fred.

For washerless pinning I use a small tapered diamond dremel bit to ease the pin holes.

Keep up the good work. If you are going to do a lot of inlays/shields take a look at Scales with Shields.

Jonathan

Ah thank you for all the useful info there Datsots, I haven´t actually thought of drilling into the rod a lil bit to get it to spread. I will have to try that

I think I was not clear enough. To prevent the pin from breaking the scales. Drill the pin holes before profiling the scales. Just before you pin the scales on use the diamond bit to chamfer the pin hole not the pin.

Jonathan