Thread: A Puma restore sorta....

So, the other day we had the warmest day in like 4 or 5 months here in New Jersey, so I took a walk with the wife and came across an antique store. I spoke to the shop owner, asked if he had any straights and well he had about 8 of them, all of them German made full hollows, but I found one.


I found an Iros Keen Puma Special roughly 5/8ths in Otto Deutsch green acrylic scales, I got the guy to give it over for 15 bucks. It was frowning, and the scales were filthy and warped. So I took here home and took her apart cleaned her up and honed her.


Method:
For the frown, I used Lynn's method of circles at a 45 degrees angle on a stone. Sadly I was nervous about doing this on my Naniwas, so I tape a sheet of 320 grit emory paper to a granite tile and went to work it took about 25 minutes of circles to get this edge flat and even again.

For the warped scales,I just boiled the scales and pressed them flat this flattened the acrylic. I'm not sure if this was the right way but it worked without ruining the scales. Then I sanded them with sandpaper for acrylic up to 12k grit, then I used Novus Acrylic polish to bring out the luster.

Finally, I used sand paper by hand to remove the tarnish, up to 8k, then I used a Dremel and some compound for cleaning cars called G27S, I duhno if it was ever meant for steel, but for whatever reason this stuff works like a charm within a few spins of a buffing wheel the razor gleams.

I repined it with Mirco Fasteners and I used the Dremel to sand down the edge of the clipped brass screw.

Info:
This is no Max or Glen restore, just me humbly bringing a little glory to this old blade. Those guys truly restore, I just dabble in making things a little cleaner.


Here's some pics of the result, sorry no before shots, it was very tarnished and covered in goop with warped scales.


thanks for checking this out.
David