Thread: 8/8 / Wade & Butcher / "Quicksilver"

This one full inch of beautiful Sheffield steel was sent to me by Brando, along with some pictures of some of his old Harley's for inspiration...
I polished out the blade first and got a near perfect mirror from toe to tail...
Then I started looking through color choices and found this Liquid Silver, well after that it started coming together in my head, I just needed to make it happen on the bench too...
The SS/Silver pins and washers were a given, but I wanted to try something different on the wedge...
I had found some silver sheet about 6 months ago, that I was planning on using for scale liners, but decided to use some of it on wedge liners for this razor...
Now that got a bit interesting as this wedge, and scales, were both acrylic, so I really had to watch against heat build up or all the work I had done would have melted... I used a 3 pin set up at the wedge, just for looks only, the razor was big enough, and heavy enough, to handle the lined wedge, and the three pins, and still manage to balance at the tang...

So here she is "the Quicksilver"...

Another master piece Glen! Just love your work.

Very nice Glen. That is elegant.

Remembered that I had actually taken "before" pictures of this one...


Here is what it looked like when the razor came to my shop

Beautiful job Glen and the before photos really show the contrast between what it was like and what it's like now.

Always a treat to see these blades come home from forgotten to a beautiful creation. Some Harley pic's, some knowledge of the owner, a blade, a skilled craftsman and viola a work of art and a brand new life of shaving for that blade.

Great looking work, as usual. I love what you did at the wedge end with the 3 pin setup. It really enhances and shows off the width of that blade.

That is just awesome. So clean and classy. Probably my personal favorite of any restores shown on this site. Great work, especially on the choice of materials.

One question though, you mentioned you were worried about heat ruining your work. I know heat melts acrylic, but why would you have any heat present after cutting and polishing the scales and wedge?

Originally Posted by burns420

One question though, you mentioned you were worried about heat ruining your work. I know heat melts acrylic, but why would you have any heat present after cutting and polishing the scales and wedge?

The reason he was worried is that he had to sand down the sheeting to flush up the liners with the wedge & scales, and this generates a tremendous amount of heat in the liners, so much so that it can easily melt acrylics. I have to worry about the same things. In addition, sometimes if you build too much heat, the adhesive we use to glue the liners onto the wedges can come apart. Ever since I had this happen to me a couple times and figure out it was due to heat buildup, I've had to think about heat with lined wedges since.

Well done, glen, on a FANTASTIC razor!

Holy smokes... what a great job. big old beast of a great looking razor Glen!