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Thread: Rodgers & Sons barber's notch restoration; before & after photos

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    We can appreciate all of you work with the before and after shots. Great job!
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    What a beautiful transformation. The blade looks flawless. I really like the look of the scales.

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    Thanks everyone!



    Quote Originally Posted by raghur View Post
    ...Did you sand it by hand, put it in a tumbler, how did you do it?
    I did some with a Foredom tool and cratex wheels, but the vast majority of the work was done with abrasive papers. I couldn't figure out how to sand the slight hollows on the blade, but then I got Bill Ellis' Straight Razor Restoration CD and saw his tip on using a piece of tubing or hose to conform to the curves. I went to the hardware store and got 12 inches each of several different sized of hose, cut them to length at home, and was good to go. Bill's technique worked great and made all the difference in the world.

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    Very nice work.
    What type of file did you use? Was it diamond or carbid coated?
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    Once again, that's a really really nice job! Well done.

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    Lovely job,Best Regards Gary

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    Wow, great job.

    Not to thread-jack, but those scales look amazingly similar to the "family" blade I had passed down to me. Please take a look at the image and tell me what you think. Is there any cute ways to tell what the scale material is, or at least what it isn't?





    It's Joseph Rodger's and Sons, etc etc.

    Edit: that pic looks mighty small here on the forum, but if you click through you can get to a bigger one. *shrug* maybe I'm dumb.

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    Outstanding !!!!!!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruno View Post
    What type of file did you use? Was it diamond or carbid coated?
    Bruno, I used this Grobet checkering file from MidwayUSA. I believe it's just carbon steel. Here is a link to it at MidwayUK. Grobet labels it a number 0.



    Quote Originally Posted by RazorRookie
    Please take a look at the image and tell me what you think. Is there any cute ways to tell what the scale material is, or at least what it isn't?
    RazorRookie, Your picture is not very clear, but it looks like horn to me. Horn is actually a kind of hair, so you may be able to see that all of the fibers are going longitudinally.

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    What a beautiful razor, great work. I wonder how you revived the scales, did you sand them and then buffed them?

    Al raz.

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