Thread: Torrey in Bloodwood

Thanks for your earlier response Glen on the “rules” of this sub-forum. Well, in “the more pics the better” spirit, here are photos of my latest rescale project.

I cannot explain why exactly (inexperience??, fatigue??, lack of concentration?? daydreaming about another razor on its way back from Glen??) but this project turned into a calamity of errors.

What should have been a relatively straightforward scale build turned out to be a frustrating project. To start with, I had a bear of a time getting the contour lines just right. Consequently, I spent eons sanding, and re-sanding, and re-sanding again, ad infinitum. I seemed to have the same luck establishing the right angle on the buffalo horn wedge. When I finally got around to repining the razor I installed the wedge backwards. My error wasn’t readily obvious until I attempted to pin the pivot end --- the razor simply would not fit! I deserve some sort of prize for that blunder alone. What a dumbass! What’s worse, in the process of unpinning the razor to flip the wedge, I badly scratched the wood, forcing me to re-sand and re-oil the scales yet again. Let’s just say multiple gallons of elbow grease went into making this set of scales. I thought I was finally home free, but when I got the razor assembled again the blade did not center properly. In the process of trying to straighten the razor, I accidently popped off one of the washers forcing yet another disassembly and repining of the pivot end. Whew!

If a time lapsed video of the project existed from start to finish, the veterans would surely get a chuckle watching it. Oh well, that’s how we learn, right? In the end the razor turned out OK, I guess. Any remaining imperfections will simply have to stay I’m afraid – I’m scared to touch this one anymore for fear of something else disastrous happening. I think it is cursed.

Hats off to you guys who successfully do this on a regular basis. Let me be the first to say that it ain’t easy my friends.

Thanks for reading. [Try to] Enjoy.

Brian