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Heres 3 razors I recently restored and re-scaled. gratewhite already pointed out the micro-chips near the toe of the C-mon..they are easier to see in the pictures than in person ;) -- I haven't taken any of them to a hone yet.
C-mon, lacewood with poplar spacer.
Shumate, purpleheart with poplar spacer.
Permedge, walnut with poplar spacer.
enjoy!
Nice tight clean work...
Personally I am drawn to the looks of the Shumate, as the diamond ends are harder to do correctly....
More info please also,,,, The pins??? the finish????
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Pins are just 1/16 brass rod and #0 microfastener washers.
Bandsaw rough cut scales, glued together and used 100grit sandpaper to hand sand final shaping. (don't have a big bench beltsander yet).
Just eyeballed the diamond shape ends, guess I have a decent eye for this stuff. to get flat surfaces I just sanded the scales on a piece of sandpaper sitting on a table.
After final shaping done, used dremel workstation drillpress to drill holes. Then, separated all the scales, and mocked up using microfastener bolts to determine spacer widths. ripped those with the bandsaw and roughed down to squares, glued/clamped them between the two scales, and then used previous holes as guide to drill hole through spacer.
bandsaw again to rough out spacers and then hand sanded with 220 grit down to even up with scale shape.
finish is 4 coats of teak oil, 12 hours dry time between coats. Looks very minimalistic but gives a decent enough water resistant barrier.
I also like the shumate. Trying to talk my wife into giving it a shot..... heheh. its very feminine looking, i think!
forgot -- purpleheart went in the over for 5 mins @ 400degrees as well to darken up a bit.
All very nice & the minimalist look works for me.
+1 for oils as a finish