Thread: The Artist with camel bone scales

By the way, all these restoration I am posting these days were made up in the past year. Thanks for all the info I got from everyone on this forum and also for Undream's restoration video series which started me restoring razors.

So this is a The Artist with custom camel bones scales and black horn wedge.

I really had a ton on problems with this razor but I learned a lot from it.

First problem was when polishing the scales with my buffer and my darkened white rouge wheel which I used with blades. The camel bone was sanded up to 1k grit but it is indeed very porous. The wheel spinning stuck dark compound in the pores creating small black dots everywhere which were only possible to remove by sanding. So I sanded back and decided to polish only by hand with Mothers metal polish and a clean cloth. I was surprised with the effect of only hand polishing which ended up pretty good with no dark speckles. I think a good idea would be to have one polishing wheel for scales and one for blades.

Another problem I had was after pining the new scales, the blade closed very much on the right side sometimes touching the scales. No need to say it was not closing on the scales when pre-tested with a nut and bolt although it was closing pretty much on the right side. So I decided to unpin and this is when a crack problem which was very faint until then appeared much clearer, oh well :P I then tested the blade alignment by just putting it flat on a table and pushing on the pivot hole on each side. I found it was pretty much warped on the right side. So I added a large washer on the left side and made the right scale thinner at the pivot point, as you can see on the pictures. After this the blade was closing pretty much centered on prepining tests. It ended up almost center after pinning. From that point, when making new scales, first thing I will do is to check blade alignment with this simple test.

And for the crack, oh well I'll make new scales if it breaks, and in the mean time, I guess it gives him character.

I'm not sure If your blade is created this way, but some razors are asymmetric at the tang when viewed from the top, this can cause alignment issues if you aren't creating scales to counteract it.

Looks like you did a really good job and learned a lot along the way. Glad to hear the videos helped!!!!

Brad

very nice !!! they look great