Making scales and restoring razors is kind of like raising kids. You toil and sweat over them as you gingerly mold them into you image and watch them grow. You polish them up and get a sense of pride when you stand back and look at what they have become. Then the time comes to send them out into the world. You hope the qualities you have instilled in them will carry them through life and they will become productive contributors to society.
So off go my latest 6 children to enrich the lives of others.