Joseph Rodgers & Sons Dremelized

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03-09-2011, 07:49 AM
Joe Edson

Joseph Rodgers & Sons Dremelized

This is a restore I'd been looking forward to for awhile. This was inspired by Legion's $10 restoration thread challenge on another forum. I picked this razor up in a lot from Antique Hoosier for basically $9 shipped and when I received it I set it aside for testing out my first dremel work. I gave it a double thumbnotch, spanish point and worked spine. My critique of it is that the worked spine is too deep, but after making the first one I had to be consistent.

Scales are made from Black & Tan G10 with a White G10 lined Black G10 wedge. Unfortunately I tapered the wedge too much and had to really peen the wedge pin to get it snug. After this I didn't like the look and sanded the peens to try and smooth them out to look like one big brass peen. After putting the blade in I got a small gap to appear on one side of the wedge. I sanded the peens similar to the wedge to be consistent. If I get time in the future I'll remake the wedge and re-peen to look better.

All in all, I'm happy how it turned out and have decided to keep it in my rotation.

Hope you enjoy - any critique is welcome.

Before:
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/SAM_3075.jpg

After:
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/SAM_3265.jpg
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/SAM_3269.jpg
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/SAM_3271.jpg
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/SAM_3274.jpg
03-09-2011, 07:56 AM
BladeRunner001

WOwww Joe :dropjaw::tu. You did all that with just a dremmel???!! I am impressed. Nicely done
03-09-2011, 10:55 AM
baldy

Man, thats Awesome. you would never guess its the same razor.
Grant
03-09-2011, 01:11 PM
MileMarker60

Great job! I really like it.
03-09-2011, 02:37 PM
Catrentshaving

Holy crap! That looks awesome! Great work all the way around :tu
03-09-2011, 03:46 PM
Joe Edson

Quote:

Originally Posted by BladeRunner001

WOwww Joe :dropjaw::tu. You did all that with just a dremmel???!! I am impressed. Nicely done

I did the blade work with standard greaseless and a buffer. The notches, worked spine and point were all done with a dremel though. Probably took me 2 hours of just dremel work alone.

Thanks everyone else for the comments!
03-09-2011, 10:07 PM
Maxi

That's definitely on the high end of "holy **it!" Great work!
03-09-2011, 11:42 PM
onimaru55

C'mon, not the same razor, surely. Great work indeed.
03-09-2011, 11:53 PM
nessmuck

:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:

Quote:

Originally Posted by onimaru55

C'mon, not the same razor, surely. Great work indeed.
03-10-2011, 12:20 AM
nicknbleeding

Holy crap! That is amazing!
03-10-2011, 12:43 AM
sharptonn

Wowser! You took a POS and made a thing of beauty! AWESOME! :eek:Tape the spine (somehow) and hone it up! COOL! Thanks for posting it!
03-10-2011, 01:05 AM
CharlieTN

Wow, that's not a restoration! That's a rebirth! Amazing work.

Charlie
03-10-2011, 01:27 AM
hi_bud_gl

I SHOULD say this is really fake.

Can you believe what kinda a job you have done?
Makes us think that way?
Amazing.
Congratulations.
03-10-2011, 02:50 AM
Joe Edson

Quote:

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Wowser! You took a POS and made a thing of beauty! AWESOME! :eek:Tape the spine (somehow) and hone it up! COOL! Thanks for posting it!

I actually already honed it (you might be able to see the bevel from the pics).

I initially used one layer of tape on the spine and after going to my bevel setter, the bevel came out too huge and I hated how it looked.

I took it back to 400 greaseless and up through rogues after that to erase the hone ware.

I then re-taped the spine with 3 layers of electrical tape, turned my chosera 1K on its side and went at it with rolling x-strokes. I had the new bevel set in 15 minutes and it looked considerably better.

Quote:

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

I SHOULD say this is really fake.

Can you believe what kinda a job you have done?
Makes us think that way?
Amazing.
Congratulations.

Quote:

Originally Posted by onimaru55

C'mon, not the same razor, surely. Great work indeed.

I know you're joking, but it is indeed the same razor. Honestly I only spent about 30 minutes at 80 greaseless as under all that rust was hardly any pitting. I practiced a bit on some chipped blades as I actually wanted to do more of a Friodur worked spine where its beveled on each side. After 3 practice blades I realized that was too much of a challenge for my first dremel attempt and decided to go with what I have here.
03-10-2011, 07:10 AM
HLS

Was expecting something hideous............dang that's nice man.

Jim
03-10-2011, 11:10 AM
Mvcrash

I don't know how many times you can say "HOLY CRAP".....but......

HOLY CRAP that is spectacular.

actually it makes me feel incompetent......
03-12-2011, 11:16 PM
bryce247

awesome job

Beautifully done!

Just a question though, what bit did you use in the Dremel?

Bryce
03-13-2011, 07:45 AM
randydance062449

There are great restores but this is in a new class called Transformations!

Very well done, :tu
03-13-2011, 09:01 AM
Kees

How did you increase the size of that blade?
03-13-2011, 02:40 PM
august11231

stunning.

I wasn't planning to every try restoration, but this is one hell of an inspiration, I can tell you. Simply gorgeous work, my man.
03-13-2011, 03:32 PM
Blackstangal

What a masterpiece!:tu
03-13-2011, 05:06 PM
globaldev

wow.. i wanted to say whats already been said before me...

the original pic doesn't look like it had that much steel... wow....
03-13-2011, 06:27 PM
Joe Edson

Quote:

Originally Posted by bryce247

Beautifully done!

Just a question though, what bit did you use in the Dremel?

Bryce

I used the 2 different sized sanding wheels.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kees

How did you increase the size of that blade?

Lol, can't really increase the size of the blade. Steel was only removed.
03-14-2011, 01:57 AM
onimaru55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kees

How did you increase the size of that blade?

He decreased the width of the heel :D
The taper makes the razor look bigger.