Well, after seeing all the fine examples so far, I am reticent to post these pictures. First, I am a newbie, only str8 shaving for a month. Second, I'm not the greatest photographer in the world and am using a "el cheapo" brand camera.
I was given a Clauss a few weeks ago (no I have no pictures of it because I thought I would have ruined it anyway). Scales were broken and unrepairable. The blade was rusty to say the least. My wife said: "Surely your not going to try to fix that? Are you?"
Armed with sandpaper, a Dremmel Tool, and some left over Walnut from a gunstock I had made, I entered into the realm of restoration! Tracing the scales onto paper was the easy part. It got harder as I went along!
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OK There it is. First off, I wish to thank Bob Allman for the use of his buffers (Oh I GOT to get one of those!) and his overview of my work (stopping me just short every time was going to screw up or about to remove a finger or two!). Also I would like to thank Hoglahoo, Holli4, Gugi and Lynn for their watchfull eye during chat nite while I honed this bad boy up while consuming two bottles of Shiraz in the process (well, my wife did help in that department).
By the way, I shaved with it this morning and I had a wonderfull shave! This thing is sharp and smoooooooothhhh! I like it.
Mistakes? Oh yeah, plenty. ` I see all the warts, but they are my warts! I learned a lot and hope to take that knowledge with me on my second attempt!