Thread: First restoration: Simmons Hardware #421 Barber's Pet

First one and great one. just keep it going . You will get better every time you make your next one. Thank you for showing to us.

Beautiful great work on the blade

What a great job for a first restore! Seriously, very well done, you should be proud.

I do want to know a bit about your pinning method though, I do not mean this in any other way than to know more about how you did your resto, and to maybe help out for future jobs, but the pin close up looks like it took some heavy hammer blows.

anyway, really good job!

Originally Posted by Del1r1um

I do want to know a bit about your pinning method though, I do not mean this in any other way than to know more about how you did your resto, and to maybe help out for future jobs, but the pin close up looks like it took some heavy hammer blows.

It did. I used brass rod that I annealed, but my hammer is 8oz. I'm trying to find a smaller one, but so far no luck around here. I had them all domed and shiny, but I rather like the hammered look- so I put it back.

The trick is going to be A.) A lighter hammer
B.) A trained hand, so as to have consistent, small strikes.

Any tips for me? I soooo want to learn.... I'm hooked. Bad.

Originally Posted by BKratchmer

It did.
The trick is going to be A.) A lighter hammer
B.) A trained hand, so as to have consistent, small strikes.

Any tips for me? I soooo want to learn.... I'm hooked. Bad.

Yeah man, I think you nailed it already. A lighter hammer and thousands of tiny taps will do wonders. I'd say that using regular brass rod from the hobby shop, you will not need to anneal it, just tappy tap around the outside. As Glen has said before, if you put your thumb on the anvil and tap it on the nail with your hammer and it causes pain, you are probably hitting too hard.

And as for any other tips, this is pretty much my pinning bible. These are the videos that Alex (philadelph) made, and I have had great success just from trying to mimic what he does here.

By the way, I want you to know that I really think you did a great job on your restore... The pinning would be the icing on the cake as they say, and I know when I started doing resto work that I really wanted people to spot any flaws and tell me about them so that I could learn more. I think you are doing great!

Sweet shaver BK. Can't believe I didn't see this thread earlier. You should feel very proud because that looks SLICK!