Thread: 19/16 Wm. Stenton in fancy horn

Here is another one of my personal razors that I finally got around to scaling. The blade shape is what drew me to it originally..even when I only suspected it to be 8/8 when I bought it on E-bay as a complete gamble... when it arrived and it was 1 + 3/16" I was just in awe..

Similar in grind to the "GB" I posted yesterday.

This blade feels special to me in some way, and so I decided some special scales were in order.

I tried something new. I did flush-riveting with silver rod, dipping each stud in epoxy before tightly tapping it into perfectly drilled 1/16 holes. I used a diamond tip dremel bit to pre-score each hole to guide my 1/16 bit. It is deadly accurate, and if I had not paid so close attention, the flaws would have been obvious, even to an untrained eye. I know, because as I was testing these flush rivets on some scrap horn... I kept drilling them off-center, and man...the errors were so obvious it looked terrible. I knew on the scales I would have to be super accurate. Each stud is solid as a rock.

my inspiration for the scale shape came from old carved ivory shapes, even though I decided to do them in dark translucent horn.

These blanks were 6 and 3/8". I would NOT have been able to scale this razor without Phil from Masecraft digging me up some xtra long horn scales. Thank you very much Phil!!!

Pics are pre-honing


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