Thread: Steampunk shaving set

Hi there ! I really like your website. I apologize for my bad english, not my first language.

About a year ago, I was ordered a special shaving set. A friend from the french shaving forum wanted a steampunk-inspired straight razor, with the assorted badger brush and holder.

He helped me with drawings, but let me total freedom in the creation process.

I started to gather various junk pieces and the idea slowly came to life.


Some of the manual watches gears I used.

First off, the badger brush. I put some random gears in order and poured inclusion resin over it. 24 hours later, tadaa...


I then sanded it and placed it in a tube. Unfortunatly, it was aluminium Didn't manage to get a brass or copper tube.


Next step, with the help of a brass light bulb holder. The whole piece is then soaked in boiling bleach to give it an ancient look.




The badger brush is finished.

Next step was the razor itself. My customer provided me with the blade, I only had to craft the handle.

I used a computer motherboard as a base, added gears and stuff and poured resin.


I then cut the resin, sand a lot (manually), and voilà !




A handful of month later I finally managed to craft the holder. I used a piece of wood, two copper tubes, a brass tube, some gears and a brass plaque.



Hope you like it, my customer does, and I really enjoyed crafting it.

Thibault.

Amazing work, now all he needs is this necklace:

Very cool and well thought out. Thank you for sharing.

That's not a shaving set, that's a piece of art

Really cool idea, and great work!

I'm speechless. That's very cool stuff!

Wow, just Wow! Amazing creativity and craftsmanship!

That's really great, I love all the steam punk- inspired restores and customs. Do you think you would ever be able to put a working clock in the base of the brush? That would be really cool if you could get it to work

Superb work, you have done a beautiful job on that. I love both, either would be a welcome addition in my collection.

Thanks for sharing.

?Question on technique?" I then sanded it and placed it in a Tube". May I ask what you used to sand it with?
Thank you.