Thread: My first razor case :D

So, I was home from campus for the weekend and, while helping mom clean the basement, I found a display case with two rows of racks, each with 8 holes, asking what it was, My mother told me it was from when my sister used to collect a souvenir spoon from every location we visited (my family used to travel a lot, she apparently had a lot of these racks filled.. .this was just the only one left)... I got an idea, and asked if it was needed anymore. She said I could do what I wanted with it, so, borrowing my father's dremel, I went to work. I started by gently removing the top rack of 8 cut-in holders (the holders are small circles, roughly the circumference/diameter of a pencil, and there is a gap about a half to 3/4 that size in the front to allow the spoon being hung there.) And by gently removing it, I mean tearing it out, breaking it in half in the process... It was stapled in through the left and right walls. I tapped the staples out, then went to work on the rack. I basically took a dremel with a sanding bit that was a tad larger than the current hole (a little shy from the size of a Sharpie) and dremeling a clean path through each holder... Then I lowered this rack, superglued it in, and considered it done....

Not really much work, but it went smoothly, somewhat cleanly, and works very well.. I think it looks great for my first time EVER using a dremel... Here are some pictures (You can see in the pictures what the holders original size was, I left the bottom alone, and hold the Tail in it, then I put the scales up into the top part I dremeled out)

Very creative - and a great job!

Thanks, mate

Looks like you have room for MORE hehe do you have your eyes on other razors to fill it?

Nice job, now all you need is to make a strop closet.

Originally Posted by wuff

Looks like you have room for MORE hehe do you have your eyes on other razors to fill it?

I actually have a list of razors a-brewing... They're all Dovos, currently. Standard production runs to beef up the stable... Although I would love to get my hands on some restorable, wider spine vintages..

Originally Posted by thewatermark

Nice job, now all you need is to make a strop closet.

My goal was to make somethign taht would fit in my dorm, rather than just leaving the razors on my dresser... This I can pin up to the interior frame of my lofted bed... For now, the strops are stored similarly. I used a maglite to pound push-pins into the frame, and hang strops from that... I'll do the same with this case (it has picture frame nail-receptacles in the back so I can hang it from two nail heads)