Star Spangled Rodgers

[sharptonn]

Great work from All here, as usual!

This razor is (once again) the result of working with what I have. It has been a fun project.
I got the scales with the top broken off on one side. I was intrigued with the stars inlaid into the ivory, so I decided to shorten them and use a shortened blade. In figuring out how these tiny stars were imbedded, I called on Neil Miller and Pixelfixed who both concur that somehow the maker carved the star shapes into the ivory and the stars were inlayed. I had to remove 5 of the stars as 3 were even with and above the pivot on the unbroken scale and 2 were where the new pivot hole was to be. It took a lot of digging and prying to pop them loose. I saved 4 and one went flying, who knows where! I was bent on applying one above the pivot hole at the top as I finished, but decided that there was not room enough and inlaying tiny stars into ivory is just not in my resume.
The shortened Smith blade I had intended on using proved too wide, so I went to my pile and found this 5/8 Rodgers blade which was quite long in design. After cutting and reshaping the scales and filing the wedge down as close to the bottom pin as I dared, I took 3/16 off the end of the blade and reshaped it, just like it was originally. Everything mocked up nicely, so I sized and annealed a new pin and proceeded to pin it up collarless.
I got the top peened tightly and the peens close to the bottom ones this time, so I must be getting better!
So now I have a nice star-studded little shaver with 2 1/2 long bevel! ...............Tom