This is nothing special compared to some of the fantastic restorations I have seen here, but I thought I would share my enthusiasm with you anyway.

A little background first. A co-worker found his grandfather's razors and offered them to me for very little. Knowing nothing of them I purchased them anyway. Come to find out they were in reasonable shape, but like many vintage attic finds....they needed some work.

I honed them first, and repaired the edge damage that was present on some of them, unfortunately I took very few photos of them prior to doing any work. Regardless, my photography skills are lacking lately, and there is little to no chance of me capturing an edge restoration in photos.

Another problem they had was the scales were loose...and in the process of attempting to tighten one, I broke both scales.

That brings us to the subject of this thread. Here is my meager attempt at making a set of slabs (and cleaning up the blade) on one of my attic finds.

These are from earlier tonight. The scales were broken and the blade still looked a bit rough...though it had a nice shave ready edge.



So I traced out a pattern on some red G-10 I had laying around and started sanding...Ill spare you a bunch of progress photos, here are the scales after 600 grit sanding/polishing. I will probably leave them at this finish because I like the looks of it...and any finer polish might get a little slicker than I would like.


This image shows a nice close up of the blade:


So I headed back down to the basement and removed the pins and old scales. I cleaned up the blade, wire brushed it, and buffed it a bit. No real effort to put a brilliant polish on this one, I wanted to keep the etching and just remove some of the heavy spots. I then did a test fit, and reassembled it with the old wedge (which is too small) and pinned it together with some wood pins I carved (just for a few pictures).





That is enough for tonight. I will probably work on a wedge (perhaps lead) this weekend, and relieve the interior of the scales a bit for better fit. At some point perhaps Ill get some photos of the slightly improved blade...I just wanted to show off the scales so far.

Nothing amazing, but I am pretty happy with them so far.

Thanks for reading (for those of you that made it this far)