Thread: Restoration Redo

This one has been in my rotation for quite awhile now and was one of the first razors I did a rescale on. I grabbed it the other day and noticed that it still had some rough scratches from shaping it on my belt sander and thought I should smooth everything out. I don't know why, but I like the look of this razor. Nothing special about it, but I just like it. I decided to give it alittle extra so I put nickel silver pins in the scales to give it alittle design. Went with a tung out finish this time to add some shine from the dull fuzzy finish from before. I like the looks of the redheart. It is a darker red in person with black streaks. I should have been worried about the razors that are sitting around waiting for me to do something with, but I couldn't leave this one as it was. Before and After.

nice! tell us how you did the inlays please!

I traced the scales on paper and marked out the pivot and wedge pin holes so I could place it on top of the scales and bolt it in place. I measured where I wanted the inlays to go so they would be centered. Placed the dots where I wanted them and used a scribe to punch through the paper to mark the scales and used a pin vise and a drill bit slightly smaller than the nickel silver. I tapped the pins in place with alittle glue for extra support and then filed them flush. You can see some of the pins aren't perfectly placed. That happened when I went to mark the holes and didn't line up perfectly centered with my marks. I used 20g nickel silver. I was going to use some 26g sterling silver that I have, but it is alot thinner so decided not to use it. I am planning on saving the silver to try and copy some of the vintage scales I've seen with really tiny pins some time in the future. I have used 1/32 brass rod that I got at a hobby shop that turned out pretty well. I was thinking of doing a wire inlay, but I am still working out how to get that to look nice and smooth. That is alot harder to do.

its the little extras that make all the difference,
the dot inlays really set it off & just add that extra wow factor,
from the already nice looking but a bit Utilitarian Str8, to something sophisticated looking the extra polish on the new finish just help it all pop too
nice remix for the better indeed

That is a great inspiration to those of us who have contemplated such things. This may be a new trend.

Love the new look. Great work!