Quote Originally Posted by RezDog View Post
I feel as though it took me a lot of tries to get my pinning to a point where I didn't think it was embarrassing. That kind of surprised me because I have always been good with my hands. Often there are little challenges that still come up. I think if I wasn't challenged I would be bored. Nice razor by the way. It turned out quite nice.
The Brad Maggard 12-part video tutorial on restoring opened my eyes in a lot of ways. One thing he said that surprised and educated me was that he gives about 300 taps with the peening hammer for each penning. Before getting into restoration, I had rescaled a few razors with ready-made scales, and the results had never been good. One reason for that was that I just wasn't giving the pins enough small taps.

With the F. R. Reynolds, even after 300 taps, the pin head left a little ledge above the washer. So I sanded those down.

Maybe next time, I'll not sand the scales until after I've done the peening. Then I can sand the pin and scales together.

To tell the truth, I did that once with the wedge-end scales, and had sanded so far that the washer got free from the pin. Had to start over on that one.

I know what you mean about needing challenges not to get bored. So long as I feel I'm making progress, not just spinning my wheels, I'm happy.