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    Default Bismark with "Garibaldi" scales

    I've always liked these "photo frame" type scales as I don't see them that often. This blade was in decent shape but the scales were so-so.
    I cleaned up the blade and left it in a brushed finish but polished the spine and shaft.
    Since I didn't want to use the scales but wanted the photo I went to my to do pile and found a nearly matching color set of scales on another razor. So I took them.
    I removed the photo from the original scales and went about making a recess for it to sit in. It has to fit flush.
    After a bit of fitting,,,cutting,,fitting etc. I got it to sit flush. And since the posts were gone I made pockets for them to fit into and made the pockets a bit wider on the bottom to act as anchors for the post to fit into when I epoxied it in place.
    A fun evening project.

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    The final steps and razor done.

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    Beautiful restoration, and very cool job transfering the photo frame.
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    beautiful restoration job and great choice of person to put on there as a picture!

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    The image was already there so it wasn't really my choice. I've seen his image on other razors though.

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    Outstanding with that work. Thanks for sharing.
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    My pleasure guys, and thanks. It seemed to make more sense than slapping on a set of Micarta or something. I love the old stuff and try to keep it where possible. It's very cool somehow.

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    Can I ask, how did you route out the shape?

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    I used a tiny ( think dental bit) ball end cutter. Once the main area was relieved I then switched to a square end cutter in a typical router style application. Couldn't breathe while doing this as one little slip and all would be lost. That plastic against a high speed cutter disappears rather quickly!
    A bit of a balancing act as too slow the bit wants to grab and walk.. too high and you just make a melted blob on the bit. Diamond cutters just wrapped themselves in melted plastic. Open style cutters at around 20,000 rpm seemed to work best.
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    Reay nice,
    and thanks for the tid bit on the speed with the cutting bit. That will help narrow the learning curve on a few projects I have in mind.

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