Thread: New creation by Josh and Gary

Huge thanks and respect to Josh and Gary who restored and made custom scales respectively. I'm thoroughly impressed and incredibly happy with the final product.

Josh restored an American Barber 6/8 (see original FS thread). I was particularly interested since I hadn't tried a spike point before and, well, it sure looked purdy shiny, hyuck! Great job Josh!

I got Josh to send half way around the world to Gary for one of his custom perspex jobs. Gary was incredibly helpful and sent pictures of the blade sans scales sat alongside the various shades of perspex he had available. A couple of weeks later I got a pm saying it was done and, what a bonus, with great silver star pins which complemented the small patterned etching on the tang.

So here are pictures of the finished product. Many thanks to Josh and Gary. Apologies for poor lighting, I'm no photographer and was using my wife's Nikon D80 without a clue of what you do. Just set it to auto and clicked. But hey... the quality of craftsmanship shines through, right?

P.S. Whilst taking these pictures a very interesting thing happened. I lined up my other 4 straights in rotation to take a group photo of the herd (well, more like a brood with 4 of them). I was trying to decide which order they should lay next to each other to best show them off. So I started moving them around, swapping positions, and then... *click*... this American Barber and the Wapienica snapped together, like magnets. Eh?!?! So I picked up the AB and touched the spine to each of the others' spine. They all acted like magnets. Well whaddaya know? So I then removed the AB and tried the others individually... this time no magnetism at all, with any of them.

So the American Barber is highly magnetised! I read a thread somewhere else that some razors were advertised as such, with (marketing-based) claims that it improved the shave. So here we are... this is one of those I guess!