Excellet job all the way around. :tu
I really like the way you brought back those scales. I hadn't seen the before shots in your origional post. Well done!
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Excellet job all the way around. :tu
I really like the way you brought back those scales. I hadn't seen the before shots in your origional post. Well done!
While I do feel completely outclassed by the work already shown here I may as well enter one of my first two full restorations.
Blade is a Wolstenholm Pipe razor. hand sanded out the rust and pitting and discovered a nice 1/8th" inch long crack in the blade about dead center. I breadknifed it out and popped the guy into a tumbler with corn cob media and turtle wax rubbing compound for 2 days.
Scales are bookended Redwood burl with copper liners and a pearl and black swirl acrylic wedge. Sealed in CA and smoothed out to the top micromesh. I absolutely adore the pattern to this section of burl. It looks extremely three-dimensional in person. Wedge pin is a brass rod with silver solder filler. Hard to see for my colorblind eyes, but there is a bit of color separation according to my girlfriend. Hinge pin is pure brass with a wide washer.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_5wOEQxYJBIU/Sy...%20%286%29.JPG
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_5wOEQxYJBIU/Sy...%20%287%29.JPG
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_5wOEQxYJBIU/Sy...%20%283%29.JPG
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_5wOEQxYJBIU/Sy...%20%285%29.JPG
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_5wOEQxYJBIU/Sy...%20%282%29.JPG
No your not out classed at all really nice and I wish I could pin like that also the liners go great with the scales looks top shelf, hows the shave?
Do you have any before shots?
Ok guy's I just heard from David that our prizes for this contest will be, for best restore a Dovo Blond 6/8 Best Quality razor and for best totally overhauled razor it will be a 3" Red ofBlack Latigo Strop. These prizes were donated by our own Lynn and Don at Straight Razor Designs. so come on and get those razors fixed up and entered here!!!!!!!!!!
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Muirtach,
That is a beautiful restore! I love the copper lined scales. Did you happen to document your process at all? I'd love to make some scales like that.
This can be answered by anyone... what is CA? as in CA coated scales.