Thread: Gone But Not Forgotten!

Good job Roy.............& history goes on to tell it's story & to make this the happiest ending that can ever be.

Roy
It very well may have been flush when you put it together but after setting up, the JB Weld may have shifted during the final curing process. You have the epoxy itself plus then you mix the hardener with it & the chemical process more than likely shifted it just a tad. I have worked with JB Weld before & I think it was that, that even had a temperature change after mixing the hardener to the epoxy so when it was mixed together, it gets a little warmer, kinda like Bondo does. When you mix the hardener into the main part, there is a temperature change & it gets warmer until it is finally cured.
Steve

Thanks for the info, much appreciated. While I've worked with the JB before it was never on anything 'precision' only on things like having an ear broken on my vintage cast iron table saw and then I could make a primitive form and then shape and file to fit and make flush to the original surface and finish with drilling and tapping a new hole. It's worked well as it's still holding after about 15 years.

As I said it was 'just ever so slightly raised' and then it smoothed out very well when I was just using 2000 grit W&D to start polishing the blade. With that said, I think that I would have had a better alignment if I'd just sacrificed a steel feeler gauge and used the powerful magnets if for nothing else to resist the suspected expansion from chemically generated heat but as I also said, it's finished and the owner and his family are very pleased. All but one of his extended immediate family got to see the display about a week after he's received it.

Wow - what an amazing repair job!

Roy, great work, and a wonderful story! One of the great things about wet shaving, is finding stories like this, and the great history behind the vintage tools we use.

Маn good job . I also crye , with tears for 20 minutes , when i break one brand new SiGi Solingen 6/8 razor . I break his point / american point/ with a Dremel and i shortenet it with 7 mm down . now it is a shortie .
Breaking a good razor is a reason to cry .

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Hi All!

Here's the razor I received from a 77 year old Canadian who approximately 70 years ago witnessed his father shaving with his father's razor (granddad's) at the kitchen sink when the father dropped it and it hit the edge of the sink breaking a thumbnail size 'chunk' out of the blade.

He saw tears in his father's eyes! Years later after his mother and father had passed and he was clearing their home out, he found that they had saved the razor, the broken chunk and the box the razor was in. He held onto it for sentimental reasons. Granddad had came over to Canada from England and raised his family. He had died at a young age and the owner's father inherited the razor. The family story handed down is that Granddad had brought the razor with him from England!

Long story made short, through a chain of events I was asked if I could 'place the chunk back' so that his children, grandchildren, great grandchildren etc could see something from their heritage!! I accepted the challenge and about the last of January I received the razor.

I told the owner that it would not never ever shave again, nor would it ever close into the scales and he was fine with that! At one time this was a very beautiful Boker razor! It had some gold wash on the blade and the tang was blued. 99.9% of the gold wash was gone and most of the bluing and the owner OK'd polishing off what remained of the gold wash.

Here's some pictures to help with the journey!

Here's the AWCRAP!

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Here's how I attached the broken piece back to the razor. I used JB WELD at both ends then after that had set I applied the JB in the middle and finally got it almost perfect before the working time of the epoxy was up. It is ever so slightly raised at the top and I could have sworn to GOD that it was flush when I was finished but all in all I think it came out very nice:

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Here's how it looks now:

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I had a friend make the display box. I've tried and tried to get the pictures to show how really nice it looks but No Go! It's got a beautiful gloss finish inside and out and the wood is much darker! The top is secured with two guide pins so it can be lifted of and the glass can be removed and allow access to the razor. There are vent slots cut into each side. I made 90 deg angled pieces of 1/16" brass rod and then polished them. The one is at the end of the blade to support it and the other two sit between the scales. That helps prevent any lateral movement. They are also close enough to keep the razor from rocking in them.

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The owner has been so very patient and understanding this whole time! Once the razor had cleared customs in Chicago the USPS in all of it's wisdom sent it to New Jersey which is about as far away from me in a direct line running East to West as you can get in the StatesI do hope that the owner will be pleased when he sees it first hand as the pictures really don't do either the Razor or the display case justice!

I'm hoping to have it packaged and headed home with tracking and insured today! Padding and boxing it so it makes the journey in perfect condition is my biggest worry so far!

I hope all have enjoyed the journey!

Just noticed the item under the box. Is that a shear blade.

Originally Posted by rhensley

Just noticed the item under the box. Is that a shear blade.

I really don't know what it Originally Was, but before I got it, it was my father's 'Hand Held Portable Field Anvil' While in the winter he was a machinist for Green Giant Co during harvest he rotated in and out of the shop and field.

He often re-engineered things for his use. I still have large solid brass valve stems that he re-purposed into punches and they work just as well as a fancy new store bought brass punch.

Once I decided to learn to pin a razor, I had two opposite sides milled to remove the many deep dings. I then filed and then sanded the one side up to a near mirror. When I was done I took it to the machine shop that had milled it and showed the owner my results. He had the entire shop stop their work and said; "Hey! Come and see what this guy did"! Loved it.

Even with those two 15/16" holes drill through it, it still weighs just shy of 4.75 Lbs.

While this doesn't answer your question I do hope it will give you a little background.