Thread: Geneva Army & Navy cased pair

Finally finish the box restore. I was unable to come up with a black covering but the brown with the gold looks good. It's actually a leather textured paper but it sure looks real. The wood box was extremely fragile and had to be stripped and re-glued. I had some help from my wife at the fabric store. The 6/8 razors were pretty easy to clean up. Some cold blue worked out great on the tangs. Here are the before and after photos.

That is a great save! Thank for making them usable and again wanted!
~Richard

Ditto, fantastic job. The case and razors look great but wonderful job on the case !

Whoah! Looks great! Did you wind up taking the latches off? A workshop thread on how-to would be nice!

Wow, that turned out very well for sure. I'd second a workshop thread too.

Bob

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Whoah! Looks great! Did you wind up taking the latches off? A workshop thread on how-to would be nice!

Yes the latches had to come off. They were held on with small iron nails at .030 diameter. The ends were just bent over inside the covers. I filed the heads off and pushed them out with a small pin punch. I made new ones from brass that I had to anneal to bend them over . Found that out the hard why when the first one broke when bending. I formed the heads just like you would make pins for scales.