Joseph Smith & Sons cleanup
picked this up a bit ago at an antique store , was gonna wait till i got my buffer and wheels but said the heck with it and just kept hand sanding ... still could have been sanded better but seems how i just wanted to knock off some rust and remove some pitting it is good enough for me ..
before
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scales only had a few scratches and one bite and were uneven at the pivot end ... i sanded out the deep scratches from 325-2000 grit as well as evened them up ... there was no wedge( the horn was cut to provide its own wedge, dont know if there ever was one though , but i should have made one ... ) so the blade dosent set as low as i would have liked it to do to the scales being narrow where the blade sits (least i think thats the problem )
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Re: Joseph Smith & Sons cleanup
Looks fantastic! I'm sure you'll get an edge on it, just keep plugging away. Nice razor, love the scales too!