Thread: Thornhill 7 day Ivory set

Lovely! What a great set. Congrats on that.

What a beautiful set! Nice find. Thanks for sharing the pictures with us.

Well done my friend ,they are a great find. Try rubbing baby oil into the scales as this will bring some life back into them & norish the ivory ,It my even help close up the cracks.
Iv'e used this with great results on my own stag & ivory handled knives iv'e owned in the past.Paul

3rd one down in the last picture (blade close-up) is my ideal shape of razor. Very nice indeed.

Adorable!

Beautiful!

The only place I know of that sells Ivory is Jantz Supply Co. You can do a Google search. From their Catalog though, I don't know if they sell pieces big enough to make scales, but you can give them a shot. Seems like I remember one of the resto guys posted an ivory set recently.

beautiful shoulderless razors nice engraving work on the spines also cant wait to see them all polished up

Originally Posted by currentman

well the wife took the camera with her to some retreat so the cleaned up pics will have to wait until monday, sorry for the delay, until then i bumped up the resolution on the original ones I posted

as to the scales, one of them is broken at the tip (you can seen one of the broken ones in the pics above) the other is broken at the wedge,the broken tip one is still functional, the other has been repaired but it is very fragile, so it is kind of a dilema. normally I would probably rescale them all, but after the great shave I got, I just cant bring myself destroy the original look.

I was thinking that if I could find some ivory, I could entice on of our scalemasters to make me some new ones that matched the old ones, the old scales are quite thin, but seem to be very strong, and it makes the razor very nimble.

I will keep you posted guys

You know, I've been thinking about this one, and I really hope you don't replace any of the scales. The fact of the matter is that even if you get ivory, unless it's the same type of ivory, and similar age, it will never match. Anybody who is paying attention will always be able to take one look in the box and spot the ones with the replaces scales.

Just my $0.02

my god!!! those are so beautiful I would never change anything on those!

Thanks guys !! "veedub65" I am not sure about "base relief" but they are NOT engraved, the wording and scrolls are raised, i tried to capture it in the new pics, but unfortunately my photography skills still suck.... I still have more work to do as far as polishing, but here is some more victorian era razor porn for your enjoyment