Thread: Japanese western grind razor, regound+rescaled

This is a vintage Japanese razor sent to me for a regrind due to the hone wear.When I received it, the scales were still attached, and I had every intention of keeping them original.. of course, in order to re-grind, i needed the blade out of the scales, so, I had to unpin it ---

well..you can guess what happened... after i had filed off the peen and got out my punch to push the pin through, I tapped a SINGLE TIME with a 4oz hammer, and the pivot area of the scales broke on BOTH scales! hahahaha

Oh man, my heart sank. I really wanted to keep the originals. Instead, customer got a free set of horn scales matched up near perfectly to the originals.

The blade was re-ground using a 4" contact wheel, free handed.