19/16 Wm. Stenton in fancy horn

**Undream** · 06-30-2010, 01:47 AM

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

Before

and After:

**Undream** · 06-30-2010, 01:48 AM

ok 1 more

The spider vein pitting was pretty bad on this one, so, you can see that some pitting remained.

**LegalBeagle** · 06-30-2010, 01:50 AM

A gorgeous job again. My only question is whether you plan to shave with it or just cut down trees...?

**ganboyi** · 06-30-2010, 02:00 AM

you have once again outdone yourself Brad, WOW

that is some sick blade to boot as well....

**cyclelu** · 06-30-2010, 03:17 AM

Awesome Job!!!

Just beautiful!

**ccgnet** · 06-30-2010, 06:39 AM

Great Job !!!

**ZethLent** · 06-30-2010, 08:21 AM

Awesome, your work keeps on getting better and better!!

**ianp1966** · 06-30-2010, 12:38 PM

Wow ...... just great restorative work done there and what a blade that Stenton is plus those scales ...... brilliant work i'm so envious i have plenty of time but no tools or abllity i'd love to spend my many empty hours doing something usefull like this

ian

**Scipio** · 06-30-2010, 01:03 PM

Thats awesome, you've really outdone yourself here. Its amazing how much your work has evolved since you started. If that was for sale I'd scoop it up in a heartbeat. You must be very happy with it.

**RobertH** · 06-30-2010, 04:25 PM

Man I'd love to try that sucker out. The scales are amazing and show the passion, time and effort put into the project.

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