Thread: Pearlduck in Gold Pearl

I honed this one up tonight. Took the frown off with 220 Norton.
Shaved real nice.

Nice razor!

Kirk

Originally Posted by souschefdude

I honed this one up tonight. Took the frown off with 220 Norton.
Shaved real nice.

They are indeed nice shavers. & you've done a nice job.
Seeing you criticised your pinning I think your pins may be a tad long. A touch shorter may give you a better effect.

Are you considering lifting the logo off the old scales. I think it would look great on the new ones.

Yes, my pins need to start out shorter, I totally agree. Don't know why, but I previously was snipping them off with an offset cutter, but for some reason that night I was using a flush cut and was cutting them too long.
I have changed my technique from before. Whereas before I would grip the rod with a pair of vise grips, then put a few taps on one end, then pass it through the hole. Thereby I would only have to make one cut. But I found the pin was bending when peening while holding in the grips. Now I just cut a piece of rod a little extra long, put it through the holes, then cut on both sides.
But the truth is that night I was rushing and tired and just didn't take my time to get it right...
I like the way you think about the logo,and yes, I am trying to figure out how to go about that, first removing the inlay, then putting it in the new scales.
Any techniques you can recommend?

What a great result, love the colour and style of the new scales

Originally Posted by souschefdude

I like the way you think about the logo,and yes, I am trying to figure out how to go about that, first removing the inlay, then putting it in the new scales.
Any techniques you can recommend?

Yep a couple of ways. You can put the scale in hot water & it will loosen the logo. You can get an exacto knife under it if need be. OR You can use acetone which dissolves celluloid but as those scales are most likely Catalin not sure if acetone works but hey it probably dissolves most plastics. Before you do tho you should polish the logo so you don't have to do it on the new scales.

To re-attach most guys use a clear epoxy, verrry thin smear on the logo so overuns are lessened. Last one I did I used one of the new plastics glues that are around very thin like Superglue but you only get one chance as they stick pretty fast.

So are you saying it is thin enough to just glue to the surface? No need to cut out an inlay?
It would be difficult to cut out/grind out the exact shape.
But, I could cut out/grind out a rectangular shape just larger than the logo, glue in the logo, and epoxy a coordinating color.

Awesome! And doubly awesome because you did it all by hand..!

That looks great, very classic and modern at the same time.

Originally Posted by souschefdude

So are you saying it is thin enough to just glue to the surface? No need to cut out an inlay?
It would be difficult to cut out/grind out the exact shape.
But, I could cut out/grind out a rectangular shape just larger than the logo, glue in the logo, and epoxy a coordinating color.

Yep, no need to inlay. Your idea sounds cool but also seems considerable work.
I think traditionally they were placed hot or maybe with a coat of solvent that may have welded them in but just a WAG.

Good pics & tute here:
http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...-gssixgun.html