Thread: M. George & Son Goes Back On The Line.

Just wanted to share my 3rd restoration. The first one I showed you guys a few months ago; the second one,,,well don't ask.
This one took me three weeks, I'm a little slow.
I found it in a antique store in Ft. Lauderdale and it cost me $18.00.
It came with what appears to be some kind of bone scales. They did not survive the de-pinning.
I hand sanded, then used a buffer with greaseless for the first time.
The pivot hole was huge and jagged.
Clean drilled it and had to use two sleeves to get it down to a 1/16 brass rod fit.
For sleeves I used a brass 1/8 tube, then 3/32 tube inserted in that, that allowed me to insert a 1/16 brass rod.
Brass & silver nickel washers.
bubinga scales & maple wedge(almost wedge) worked with tung oil over three weeks.
The blade had chips; bread knifed, Norton 220, 4000/8000. Shapton 16000, SRD strop.
She shaved fine tonight, but not my best shaver.

Thanks for taking the time to look, all comments are welcome. My next one will be better.

wow, really good job!! I'm working on my first 2 restores at the moment, I hope that they can come out as good as this...

Nice work! She really cleaned up nice, I like the finger grip scales too!

Nice work.
I've got an M. George & Son that looks to be pretty much identical to yours. I found that steel to need some work to get it to shave properly but now she's my silent whisker assassin.

Originally Posted by bharner

Nice work.
I've got an M. George & Son that looks to be pretty much identical to yours. I found that steel to need some work to get it to shave properly but now she's my silent whisker assassin.

Yes on the steel, she all but kicked my butt last night honing her. She shaves fine, but does need tuning.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that restoration. You did a great job. I really like the finger grip scales. keep up the good work.

well done, I like it.
Very individual scales.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Yes on the steel, she all but kicked my butt last night honing her. She shaves fine, but does need tuning.

Ok, so I found the info on what made mine sing...I originally bought it from Larry Andro and it shaved fine but it was also my first so it needed a touch up and I sent it to pinklather who did an outstanding job on it. This is what he did before he stropped it and sent it to me:
"For reference, the further bevel set (1.25" at the heel and the .5" at the toe didn't drag on a thumbnail) was done without tape on the Petite Blanche Coticule. From there, 2 layers of thin elec tape (.009" thickness) were added and 200 laps done on water alone on a La Dressante coticule. From there, tape was refreshed and 200 laps on a c12k to boost the keenness."

I had to go find some tape of that thickness but using it I've had great success keeping it keen with my c12k. I make a slurry on it with my DMT 325 and do 50 laps and slowly dilute to water only and then do 50 laps of water only. Strop it up with 60 on webbing and 60 on leather and it's the bees knees.

Very unique and cool looking. Nice work

A moment of silence for those sweet bone scales.