Thread: Horror and Beauty.. 7/8 Rodgers Resto'd to original

Here is a 7/8 Joseph Rodgers with absolutely gorgeous original horn scales. These scales were horribly warped, and the warp caused the original partial crack @ wedge end which was promptly cracked the rest of the way by Lee..god bless him. Lee decided it would be a good idea to boil the whole blade too to straighten the scales. God bless him some more.

When I received the razor, it had some scratches on the blade, some pretty nasty chips along the edge (some still visible in these pics -- she just came off the 600grit hone just 2 minutes ago before i started posting this, they are gone now ). the blade was in decent shape -- but the scales..oh my the scales.

they were in 3 pieces, and well, lets just let the pics do the talking:






Sooo...

The blade got a lot of time with some emery compound on the wheels, and the scales got 2 nights of frustration attempting to straighten...

After hair dryers and ovens.. i finally got them reasonable straight enough and not bouncing back after baking these suckers in a toaster oven at 250 degrees for 20 minutes and then sticking my entire clamped contraption into my freezer overnight.

The result is scales that are NOT straight -- they wave a bit here and there..but..they do their job, and boy howdy are they stunners.

The crack is repaired by gluing the small piece onto the wedge, and then the rest of the scale is glued to the wedge and the small piece, clamped, glued with gorilla glue, and then used #0wide brass spacers to distribute force of the pin more evenly across the crack.

both scales got re-buffed out and are near mirrored. excess glue was sanded off around the crack area and buffed as well.

#0wide internal washers, #0wide external washers, 1/16" brass rod peened.

Couple more pics for those who didn't get enough.





heres a pic while i was gluing.

Excellent work as usually. Thank you for Pic.

I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen the pics. Amazing what can be done with warped horn scales. Great job.

That is an accomplishment, my hat is off to you.

Wow this is great

This razor came by way of Dennis - his forum name escapes me at the moment [SliceOfLife], he lives down the street from randydance

I'm sure he will be as impressed as I am - moreso since I screwed up the resto myself. It seems to be my lot in razor life. That's ok though, I can certainly live with your result Brad

Thanks, I can't wait to take her out for a shave!

God bless you for that restoration!

The blade is magnificent, and those scales are really something out of the ordinary for horn!


And God bless Lee too....

freaking unbelievable.

Great job!! What a transformation!!

fantastic post - My first reaction would have been to chuck those scales and just redo it with something new but you really have buffed a diamond out of what appeared to be a chunk of coal (at least through my eyes).

Simply great job.