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Hawcroft & Pearson 4/8th Smiling Wedge restore/rescale/repin/re…
Hawcroft & Pearson 4/8th Smiling Wedge
This is one of the first eBay Junker I ever bought for a less than it cost to ship.
Wanted a small wedge for my goatee… but as usual with ebay purchases, it’s a crapshoot. The blade was so rusty from cell rot I almost threw her in the trash… that was a many moons ago.
Last week I decided to make good on the “loss” and give her a makeover.
OK so she’s no fancy monstrous meat chopper … but I don’t often see 4/8th wedgies… so maybe she is special… a supped up “Corolla”?.
4 days of hard hand sanding (on and off) and another couple polishing and there is still some tiny pits but you’d hardly notice.
The scales were another 3 days (when I wasn’t working on the blade).
The pin is a 5/64 brass rod because the blade’s pivot hole was rusted much lager than 1/16 (had to make the rivet washer and bearing holes larger too).
Scales were cut from 3/16 thick clear Lexan. It was all I had from another unrelated project so I had to do a lot of sanding to “thin” the scales. The scales are also rounded. The wedge is translucent gray Plexiglas (wedge shaped to spread the scales) and CA glued.
The lighting makes the scales look “milky” but it is transparent… almost glasslike… I dub these… “Teardrop Scales”.
Like most wedgies she did spend some time on the hone but the shave was excellent, left my face feeling 20 years younger…lolollol.
The first pic is both sides of the blade as removed from the rotting scales.
The second is the completed scales with the polished blade.
The rest are glamour shots attached for your entertainment.