Originally Posted by
Neil Miller
Kefka - it's hard to say without seeing the razor in its entirety - with the one I rescaled you could actually see it was bigger - it was a fraction longer at either end and also a bit wider. almost as if a 5/8 scale had been paired with a 6/8 scale, if you see what I mean. As for returning it - if it was local and I hadn't asked for a razor that hit the scales or had not been told about it first, then I would return it in a heartbeat. The distance involved and the comparative simplicity of fixing it would tend to persuade me not to, though.
Tiddle - that is what happened to the one I rescaled - the longer distance between the holes on the longer scale caused the other one to flex. This is a new Dovo and uses that awful new pinning system - one flattened end, like the head of a small tack, the other pin-point like a tack and you force one or two domed washers over the pin-point end and up against the scale before cutting off the excess bit of rod. Trouble is that most of the people who banged them together in the factory must have been myopic, as nearly all the pivot pins I have seen using this system (and I see a lot!) have been cut with too much of the bar left, probably due to not pressing the whole shebang tightly together before cutting, so that it is kinked in the pivot hole of the tang. That alone could throw the blade over, as you say.
If it has to be re-pinned at the pivot, you have the added dilemma of using the awful new pins or the traditional method, in which case the pivot pinning will not match the wedge pinning, so you will have to adjust that end as well. Or grow to like it!
Regards,
Neil
