Thread: Bullets with Butterfly Wings

So here it is in pictures thanks to 10pups.

And yes I know the toe is thinner than the heal .It came to me that way and I didnt want to throw it away.

very cool, I like the scale shape and the bolster at the pivot.

Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003

And yes I know the toe is thinner than the heal .It came to me that way and I didnt want to throw it away.

Cool, not sure if yours is one of 'em, but Zak and ScienceGuy had a thread devoted to razors that were made that way at the factory. So it is possible yours is just as it was made.

Damn brand new & bug bites already LOL
I really dig the bullet holes
did you engrave the blast around them also or etch it somehow?
are the bolster and that 'T' wedge made by 10Pups or liberated from another source?
very nice looks like a fun razor & good conversation starter

Nice job 10pups!

I think that is going to be a BEAR to keep clean though...

See 10Pups has been taking pity on me. So I sent him blades I wasnt going to get around to restoring, and he goes and makes that Elliot all shiny. Its all his work we will have to get him to weigh in. As I recall he said he made it all from scratch. I just wanted it to look real. So one side is clean and it blasts on the way out. 10Pups then took it and ran with it.

Very cool! I like that originality. Can't wait to see more

We had a lot of fun with this. The wedge is forged into shape out of brass plate and then detail shaped with files and sand paper. The bolster on the pivot is aircraft aluminum I shaped by making a die on a cut off bolt. Then I laid the sheet of aluminum onto a lead bar and hammered the bolt into it. Cut it out of the sheet with a scroll saw and then lots of filing and sanding there too. Then the gauge of the sheet was so thick I had to set it down into the acrylic to flush it out, more sanding. Bullet holes are easy. Drill with a small dia. then counter sink which ever side the bullet came out. The cracks are made with a diamond burr in a Dremmel. I used 3 different shapes.
I hope it's not too hard to keep clean. One thing I noticed when I buffed it all out is that there is plenty of holes to reach the inside of the scales :<0)

Not sure how the blade got this shape but it's not a Sheffield like Zak's or Wolfpack's . It was a very different shave. Had me confused some when I tested it. May have been factory maybe somebody did a regrind on it back in the day. The spine measured out the same all the way down so it's not honed out.

So...A man takes and blows some @4's at a set of scales and it's custom?
I suppose it is. I heard tale about an up-and coming country star. He hung pants out on the line and shot them with a shotgun.
Signed em and sold out. Lots of different sizes too!
So how did you do the bulletholes? The Sheffield razors which Jimmy refers to, made with swoop and taper, were made almost 2 hundred years ago. IMO, this one is modern and has been honed this way. Seems too straight, almost frowning.
It's different! A bottom heel bolster to match the top!
Lucky the blade was open when it took the blast!

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Cool, not sure if yours is one of 'em, but Zak and ScienceGuy had a thread devoted to razors that were made that way at the factory. So it is possible yours is just as it was made.

Thank you I was able to find that thread because of you. Now I did learn something new today. You are very correct about it coming from the factory and it explains why the spine looks so not ground down.