Top Flight & Gold Eagle

Here's two eBay specials I finished tonight:

First one is another one belonging to Amund, a 6/8 Burrel Top Flight.

The scales were a wreck when he got it, not sure what material they were made of but they more or less crumbled when touching them.

I left the tang untouched to keep the blackening, buffed the blade from 320 greaseless, through the compunds to jewellers rouge. (I'm still very careful when buffing hollows, maybe a little too careful?)

Scales are made of Jade G10 with a natural moose bone wedge, pins are nickel silver with stainless washers.


Before:

http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/...ightbefore.jpg



After:

http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/...ightafter1.jpg
http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/...ightafter2.jpg
http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/...ightafter3.jpg

Second one is for my private collection, a 6/8 T.Noonan & Sons, Gold Eagle.

Cleaned and polished the scales with Autosol on the buffer, repinned with Nickel Silver pins and stainless washers.

Blade was buffed from 320 greaseless up to jewellers rouge.



Before:


http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/...glebefore1.jpg
http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/...glebefore2.jpg




After:


http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/...agleafter1.jpg
http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/...agleafter2.jpg
http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/...agleafter3.jpg





Thanks for looking, and any comments that can help me improve is welcome

Great Job! Its awesome you were able to keep the original scales on the Gold Eagle, they look great! Although the G10 on the Top Flight looks pretty nice too!

I purchased a Wostenholm Peerless razor a few weeks ago and thought I'd try to do some sanding and polishing, all by hand. I was able to remove all of the rust but I am still left with light sanding marks, and nowhere near to a nice shiny finish. I keep hearing about rouges, what exactly are they, and where can you purchase them?