Red horned Greaves .

So I got it cheap in this condition. Well actually, I had already knocked the red off it at this point. Wasn't to sure how it would turn out. This of course was done on the grinder with fine belts. There was no way I was going to get this done by hand.

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The pits were pretty deep and I left some in order to save detail and the makers mark. As you can see it was 1 or the other. Bummer.
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But I got it polished up and I picked out some special horn material I have had for awhile and made some new scales for it. Not to sure about the washers I made but they are growing on me.

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If any of you are thinking of using red horn know this. It is only red on the surface. The streaking may go deeper but it will show black/brown and white once you get through the red.

I started to just sand it off once I saw the sides when rounding over but thought I would just continue to see what happens. Glad I did. I buffed down the red some on the flats and that gave it a whole new look. This picture is in sun light which show what I mean. It's in test pin so it's not very clean either :<0)

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I didn't buff the back side and you can see better what I mean about the color change from rounded edge to the flat area.

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Lovely Pups! I knew that horn would look good on the right razor...now I have to finish up the ones I'm making. :tu:tu

A 360 degree win!

Man! That's some shiny gear there! :nj

Love the colors in those scales. Great work 10Pups.

Looks like a razor to be proud of. Can we look for it in the classifieds?? Nice!

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Originally Posted by mrsell63

Looks like a razor to be proud of. Can we look for it in the classifieds?? Nice!

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This is kind of an odd Greaves from what I have seen. The spine comes to a point and has a big radius down to the blade face. Being odd myself I kinda like to keep the unusual close by :<0) Except for my first Greaves the others are off the beatin' path also.
Short answer .... nope not at this time. But if somebody had a couple of good lookin' 40 year old gals, and they came by with lots of cash, I might be persuaded :<0)

Gorgeous Pups - beautiful Greaves, of which I have an enormous soft spot for. Love the red horn and am going to see if Val can find any - never seen it before and it is gobsmacking wonderful!!

Wow, that's super nice! Good job.


Mike

Great coloring with the red scales. Glad you didn't sand it all down, looks great.

Red scales are killer. Never saw that before ........ Looks great.

Fantastic looking Greaves!
Awesome job on the blade. It almost looks new now.
The red horn is killer!!!
Fine job!!

Pete <:-}

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Red scales are killer. Never saw that before ........ Looks great.

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Could have swore I saw them in here somewhere a long time ago. I bugged this vendor every other month for a year and a half.

AWESOME JOB!
The scales came out magnificent!
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Love those GREAVES!

Great work Pups, really like that red horn on this blade.

Nice work on the blade and love the scales. Great photos also, Zac been giving you some tips?

Great work.

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Originally Posted by Euclid440

Nice work on the blade and love the scales. Great photos also, Zac been giving you some tips?

Great work.

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Funny you should mention Zak, I think he moved off planet :<0)

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Funny you should mention Zak, I think he moved off planet :<0)

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Naaaah. Just hanging off the edge of the continent!

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That's more of a smile than I see on most of the Victorian blades, it looks nice! The color is those scales is great, a lot different than the usual Browns and blacks:)

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That's more of a smile than I see on most of the Victorian blades, it looks nice! The color is those scales is great, a lot different than the usual Browns and blacks:)

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Preeeeetty sure that's not a Victorian-era blade. Looks early 1830's tops to me.

And also a lovely restore! But Pups is good at that.

I had to take some off the toe and the hook out of the heel and what's in the pics is a result of all that blended back to the middle. I got the geometry right now. I am going through the gymnastics of getting it honed up. It's was coming out even and the middle was still not meeting. I finally got a test shave out of it but I am not feeling the soul yet. Doing it during smoke breaks when I am not drooling over my new toy.

Zak , you should remember this blade. It's the 1 I was going to leave the red patina on and just hone it up :<0)

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Originally Posted by 10Pups

I had to take some off the toe and the hook out of the heel and what's in the pics is a result of all that blended back to the middle. I got the geometry right now. I am going through the gymnastics of getting it honed up. It's was coming out even and the middle was still not meeting. I finally got a test shave out of it but I am not feeling the soul yet. Doing it during smoke breaks when I am not drooling over my new toy.

Zak , you should remember this blade. It's the 1 I was going to leave the red patina on and just hone it up :<0)

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Oh yeah! That one!

I really like how you left it as-is for your restore!

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I like the red horn that baby really pops :D