Three restores for a friend

Double Duck in green & orange Atlante with black G10 wedge
Henkels in black pearl Atlante with white pearl Atlante wedge
Boker wedge in dark red G10 with black G10 wedge

The scales were designed by my son LinacJr. We made the Boker scales a little to short, causing the wedge to be too short and consequently the pin to be too far near the end. It's hard to see in the photo, but LinacJr. designed the to end of the Henkels scales to have a concave area where the wedge is supposed to show. It does, but my execution of the design wasn't as good as it should have been.

The Atlante is a really easy material with which to work and has a beautiful luster that my photos don't entirely show. However, it tends to have some bubbles.

These aren't the best restores on the face of the planet, but as I told my friend don't look a gift horse in the mouth:)

Nice looking group there. Good work :tu

Very nice, everyone needs more friends like you !

Nice restore for sure, a nice gesture from a friend, and three great shaving razors!

I think they all came out rather well.. The one in the middle with the waves looks like it would be rather comfortable in the hands... Good Job guys :tu

Very nice. I really dig the scales on the Duck!

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Originally Posted by gssixgun

I think they all came out rather well.. The one in the middle with the waves looks like it would be rather comfortable in the hands... Good Job guys :tu

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Thanks Glen. I'll have to admit, I was a little apprehensive about how these scales would look when LinacJr sketched them out, but I think they turned out looking nice. I wish I'd turned the Atlante 90 degrees because it would have accented the pearlescent look a little better. It is comfortable in the hands, but I'll never know what it feels like while shaving. I'm not confident enough in my honing to hone a razor for someone else. My frined is a better honer than I am, so I sent them back to him today unhoned.

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Originally Posted by sharptonn

Very nice. I really dig the scales on the Duck!

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Thanks! My pictures don't do the scales material justice. The orangish vein running through the scales is the material itself, not a reflection from the musical instrument the razor is sitting on. I cut the two halves of the scales out of the stock material at slightly different angles - rookie error - making the two sides look totally different. I bought the Atlante from MaseCraft. I'll have to admit, when I talked to Masecraft's owner (Don??) he talked me into buying the green & orange. I wasn't too enamoured of it when looking at the website, but I'm glad I trusted his advice. It's a cool color combination.

Good work LinacMen, young and old alike! I particularly like the Duck, being a traditionalist at heart, but the others are quite excellent too.

James.

Fine restores I would say. Well done to both the designer and the craftsman.

Stu

Wow, those look very cool! I like the 3rd scales with the sway design.

See what you mean about the scales on the Boker but I gotta say... I really like that one.
Sometimes we are our own worst critics. ;)

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Originally Posted by onimaru55

See what you mean about the scales on the Boker but I gotta say... I really like that one.
Sometimes we are our own worst critics. ;)

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Thanks! I frequently have to remind myself that I'm hypercritical of my own work, and that most others won't scrutinize things as much as I will. I guess it comes with my "type-A" personality. There's a fine line between doing a good job & OCD:)

Hey Greg, you and your son are doing some great work! You'll do just fine if that whole vet thing doesn't work out! :rofl2:

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Originally Posted by LinacMan

Thanks! I frequently have to remind myself that I'm hypercritical of my own work, and that most others won't scrutinize things as much as I will. I guess it comes with my "type-A" personality. There's a fine line between doing a good job & OCD:)

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OCD : When your hyper-cracy knows no bounds. ;)

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Originally Posted by RNMike

Hey Greg, you and your son are doing some great work! You'll do just fine if that whole vet thing doesn't work out! :rofl2:

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Thanks Mike. I don't know about a career change. I enjoy doing the occasional restore, but my hat goes off to Glen, Max, and the other guys who do this all the time as vendors. I think I would cross over from this-is-fun to OMG-this-is-hard-and-tedious-work.

Hope that new baby is doing great, friend.

Greg