Thread: An Electric Repair

I recently picked up this Electric which has interesting scales as well as a neat leather pouch for storage.
The one scale was missing a small loop which I was aware of but figured I could repair it.
I took another old Bakelite scale and ground it to the shape of the missing part. Once I had the 1/16th loop made I addressed how to fasten it to the scale. I didn't want butt joints so instead I opted for half lap joints knowing they would be a bit stronger as this piece is vulnerable.
I made a pocket on the left hand side of the loop ( hinge side) and flattened a landing area for the right side of the loop.

As luck would have it when I was breaking down the blade to remove the scales the bit slipped while drilling the pins and I created another hole right next to the pivot hole in the scale. Great! Another repair. So I made up a small 1/16th inch 'rod' out of my old junk scale and flattened one side of it. I epoxied this into the new hole I created with the flat facing the original hole. I did this to lessen the chance of the bit drifting when redrilling the hole for the pin.
I cut off my plug, sanded it flush then polished it. Since this set of scales is rather delicate I couldn' t use the buffer on them so all the nooks and crannies were polished by hand. I also did a clean up of the blade but didn't take it to full polish.
Now it's complete and solid.

Here you can see the sequence of the repair up to the point of the loop being epoxied in place but not sanded or polished.

Here is the repair I had to make because of my mistake. Plugging the hole.
I also came across the pat. date. On the opposite side someone thoughtfully scratched in their initials which I was able to sand out and polish.
I wasn't able to use the standard #0 stainless washers because they were just not right for this scale so I made my own which more closely matched the originals.
And a couple overall shots of the leather pouch and the finished blade.

Impressive. Great save on those scales.

Thank you. It seemed worth it to try.

Nice fix! I have never seen those scales before.

Excellent job on the fix, and very interesting scales! Well worth saving, IMO.

Way cool save and way cool razor… somehow that sounds wrong.

Anyway great save I would not have known it if you had not put up the before, during and after pictures.

Your skills with this stuff never fail to drop my jaw. Thanks for showing us again, how very much further there is to go.

Originally Posted by regularjoe

Your skills with this stuff never fail to drop my jaw. Thanks for showing us again, how very much further there is to go.

No kidding I always feel about an inch tall when I see these...
I am not saying that in a bad way but to quote a wise man

"The truly wise man is the man who realizes how little he knows"

That looks absolutely amazing and beautifully stunning.
If they were white, I'd say you stole Gandalf's razor that matches his staff...well, if Gandalf shaved.
My point is that the scales look so beautiful that the elves of Lothlórien could have made them.
Spot on.