The Mayor's Razor

[sharptonn]

I wish to share this one. I started a thread on this razor here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...ams-razor.html. Neil Miller provided some cool info On E Rhodes and the name Hallam (Thanks, Neil!). Seems a Mayor of Sheffield was a Hallam back in these days! I vow to say it was His until proven otherwise! I like all of my (too many) razors to be shavers so I fixed up the scales and installed another nice GR blade I had. Lots of cleaning and polishing in a gentle, conservation-type manner along with fitting and sanding a piece of the pearl, earlier done, to fit better. It is interesting how the nickel-silver bolsters were cast into the brass liners! This set of scales are most solid! I peened the top with a teeny collar so as to raise it and avoid smacking the bolsters! It still looks collarless and matches the bottoms nicely. The wedge is as ornate as the rest of it. A nice, tight piece, of which I am very proud. The E. Rhodes blade is not tossed. I feel it has great historical significance. I feel as a bit more experience comes (Or a miracle welding process!), at least, perhaps, I can get a 5/8 blade from it. It may well find it's way back into these scales. A very nice and solid razor. Pictures never seem to do Mother of Pearl justice! Soon, I will hone it up and act as if I am the mayor! Thanks for looking......Tom

[spazola]

Wow,that is a beauty. Thanks for posting.

Charlie

[parkerskouson]

Oh beautiful........
For pearly scales
For full wedgey blade
Put those lines to America the beautiful, I think it will go down in SRP history!
Awesome razor!!!!

[EisenFaust]

Very very nice! Hallam would approve I'm sure.

[onimaru55]

Wow ! Beautiful razor with well constructed scales. You did it justice.

[sharptonn]

Oh beautiful........
For pearly scales
For full wedgey blade
Put those lines to America the beautiful, I think it will go down in SRP history!
Awesome razor!!!!

Well, Maybe "God Save The Queen!" Thanks!

[sharptonn]

Wow,that is a beauty. Thanks for posting.

Charlie

Thanks, Charlie! With Your eye, it means a LOT!

[sharptonn]

Very very nice! Hallam would approve I'm sure.

Indeed, I feel he would as well! Thanks!

[sharptonn]

Wow ! Beautiful razor with well constructed scales. You did it justice.

Thanks, Oz! A complement from You is a complement Indeed!

[Neil Miller]

You have done a remarkable job Tom - you should be very pleased with yourself bringing this razor back to life again. I hope you have many happy shaves with it.

The pic of the inside of the liners with the bolsters is interesting, make me remember when I went to jewellery making classes to learn how to do just that. I was trying to replicate a similar type of construction, silver bolsters at either end, brass liners and three flat plates of MOP rivetted to the liners. Took me ages to make the liners and matching bolsters, then wire them to the bolsters so they didn't move when silver-soldered together. I was all set-up to do them one at a time, but the guy taking the class said just wire it up back to back and heat till the lot was red, and the solder tabs will just flow under the bolsters. Well...the liners were just a bit too thin and as soon as they began to glow they buckled up. When it had cooled down the silver solder had flowed alright - under the bolsters and between the liners, so I had one buckled, solid mess. All the guy said was 'liners must have been too thin' and he wandered off to help some other poor soul. I didn't return for another lesson...

How thick would you say those liners are? The ones I was duplicating were made of shim stock, about as thin as the stuff they used to punch washers out of for the scales. The idea was, along with the three plates of MOP, they would flex a bit like the originals. You say yours seem pretty solid, so maybe I was working along the wrong lines? I have since got a razor with solid silver scales that do not flex at all, and that seems to operate OK. I guess the trick must be to make the razor with the scales in mind, and not have too thick a tang?

Anyway, superb razor, superb restoration!

Regards,
Neil