Vintage Frederick Reynolds Resteration.

[celticcrusader]

I have just finished this project for UKRob a member over on the TSR UK forum, it's a Frederick Reynolds with horn scales, well when i stripped the razor down i could see a small hairline crack on one of the scales near the pivot, so I was not going to chance cleaning those back up and re-pinning them only for them to suddenly break, so i dont usually offer to make custom scales for a restore purely because it's so labour intensive takes up far to much time, but the razor looked so nice after the restore i decided to make a set of scale out of a small sheet of natural light coloured horn i had lying around it was 6X2 inches and 5mm thick, well i managed to get the horn down to just over 2mm each scale all hand sanded and fnished, i need to buy myself a bench sander phew! the only other problem was the blade pivot hole was quite large far to big for a 1/16 brass bar, so i made a small nylon bush and fitted it inside the blade pivot, then drilled out so it fitted the 1/16 bar snuggly without movement, I also used a piece of Welsh Yew as a wooden wedge, plus two different size brass washers doubled up, well now for the fruits of my labour, hope you enjoy.

Jamie.