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02-22-2012, 08:39 AM #1Junior Member
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W. H. Morley & Sons in Cocobolo
Restored this W. H. Morley & Sons for my brother who I introduced to straight razor shaving at Christmas time, since then he has gotten a case of RAD. He sent this one out to me sans scales. Making tear down was easy, straight on to sanding, sanded out all the bad and sadly as I was watching TV while doing his clover as well, sorry Paul. The scales are cocobolo with nickle silver pins and wedge. Man nickle silver is hard to shape into a wedge by hand sanding. This was my third attempt at restoring a razor and first time trying CA glue finish. All and all I dont thing it turned out to bad some spots need improvement but I guess that will come as I do more.
The piece of wood the razor is sitting on is ironwood burl that I had planed to cut up for some scales but my wife said its to pretty for that and I would be wasting it if I did that so for now it is in limbo.rgc58 likes this.
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02-22-2012, 10:38 AM #2< Banned User >
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those scales are beautiful and that hunk of ironwood would make a lot of nice scales.
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02-22-2012, 05:48 PM #3Poor Fit
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That finish looks awesome! Nice work
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02-22-2012, 10:06 PM #4Resident schizophrenic
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Wow, that's beautiful. I love those scales.
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02-22-2012, 10:24 PM #5Obsessive compulsive
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Looks like the CA finish worked well! glad to see thin scales too. Nothing worse than half a tree hanging off a blade.
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02-23-2012, 02:42 AM #6Senior Member
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Man thats a lot of hand sanding, it looks great, really nice job.
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02-23-2012, 03:50 AM #7Novice
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Love cocobolo and these scales are no exception
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02-23-2012, 06:09 AM #8Junior Member
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Thanks for all the kind words. I think I have my next project lined up a much cleaner razor. Now to just choose the wood, I might try to find a local wood shop to slice me off a 3/16 layer of the ironwood that is in the photo, sand it down and then let my wife have it for a shelf. That way I still get some for scales and she gets the rest for her shelf, note to self when getting big chunk of beautiful wood cut it up before you show it to your wife.
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02-23-2012, 08:11 AM #9Senior Member
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Great work. Your brother has no excuse now for backing out of straight razors
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