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    Cool Thiers Custom Restore in Pre-Ban Elephant Ivory

    Noswad sent me this old Thiers to work on.. It is a Thiers "Welcome" that had some very faded etch that marked it as "Pour Barbaras Duras".. Thiers took a rather novel approach to this For Heavy Beard razor from what I see the razor had minimal hone wear, when I got it and I was looking at the spine thickness in relation to the blade size, and honestly I think the idea here was a slightly steeper bevel (which in theory would be stronger).
    I polished out the blade, then took on working a set of the Pre-Ban Ivory that Noswad sent me for the scales...

    I had to make some decisions on how to work them, compared to "Vintage Ivory".

    First I mic'd every piece of Vintage Ivory scales I had sitting on the bench they ranged in thickness from .060 - .750..
    I mic'd the pieces of Ivory that I had selected ~.128 and ~.121 so I used the belt sander and evened them up to .100.. I cut out the Classic Thiers double diamond shapes and used the best looking parts of the grain in the Ivory for 2 Bookended scales..
    Next I sanded these smooth to 400 grit and had to make my next decision on a direction to go.. The "Wedge", on near every single set of Vintage Ivory I have seen, they used a lead wedge, mostly IMHO to help balance that razor and those super thin light weight scales.. I didn't have those restrictions so I chose to go with a splash of color and a Turquoise wedge...

    Next decision was about the pins which I knew I was going Nickel Silver, but was I going to use washers or not ???? I looked at it both ways, I even walked away from it and worked on another razor. Finally I decided to go with what I know works, and chose a small SS washer...

    The final thickness on these came out to be .093 after all the sanding and polishing, BTW I used up to 600 grit then switched to a Buffer and Plastic polish and finally Ren-wax and a soft cloth...The warm glow that Ivory has is hard to beat and also hard to catch in pics...



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    the teal against the ivory looks SO cool. i dig it

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    That is an elegant looking set of scales and blade. Very well done!

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    Great job Glen. That thing sure looks great, from the work on the blade to the gorgeous scales. Another superb job. Thanks for sharing.

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    Beautiful Glen!

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    That turned out superb. Beautiful razor.
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    beautiful, love the wedge really sets things off

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    As always, great work. Classy if I may say so!!
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    Working with the classics there G . Very nice
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    Beautiful work Glen. That wedge gives just that neat little splash of color.

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