Thread: My Mastro Livi razor, at last: a wonderful life experience!

Mastro Livi is about to mount the leather/linen strip to the loom





Mastro Livi mounting the strop to the loom





Mounting bottom nuts to the rods





Putting the top plate of the loom in place




Mastro Livi mounting top nuts to the rod

Mastro Livi cutting a threaded rod to be used for the handle





Mastro Livi welding the bottom part of the handle to the threaded rod





Mastro Livi welding the bottom part of the handle to the threaded rod





Mastro Livi refining the bottom part of the handle





Mastro Livi refining the bottom part of the handle

Mastro Livi refining the handle's bottom ring





Mastro Livi cutting the handle's bottom ring. On the background Grifetto blanks.





Mastro Livi sawing a block of Pau Violeta wood to be used for the handle





Mastro Livi sawing a block of Juniper wood to be used for the handle




Mastro Livi sawing a block of Makassar Ebony to be used for the handle

Mastro Livi sawing a block of Amboyna burl to be used for the handle





Mastro Livi sawing a block of Olive wood to be used for the handle





Rounding the block of Amboyna burl





Drilling the block of Amboyna burl





Making the disk of Pau Violeta wood for the handle

Refining the block of Pau Violeta wood





Refining the block of juniper wood





Making the disk of Makassar ebony





Making the round block of olive wood





Refining the block of olive wood

Initial shaping of the handle at the lathe





Shaping of the handle at the lathe





Mastro Livi operating the lathe and shaping the handle of the "Coramella Italiana" (Italian Strop)





Mastro Livi operating the lathe and shaping the handle of the "Coramella Italiana" (Italian Strop)





Refining and polishing the handle

Mastro Livi refining and polishing the handle





Mastro Livi polishing the handle





Mastro Livi mirror polishing the stainless steel part of the handle





Milling the handle for the Italian flag insert





Mastro Livi shaping the Italian flag insert to be used for the handle

Mastro Livi mounting the Italian flag insert to the handle





Initial refining of the Italian flag insert





Mastro Livi refining and polishing the Italian flag insert and handle





Mastro Livi refining and polishing the Italian flag insert and handle

Mastro Livi putting a stick of his chromium oxide into the loom strop case. Every Mastro Livi loom strop comes in its wooden case and with a stick of Mastro Livi chromium oxide paste





This is what you see when you open the wooden case of a Mastro Livi loom strop





Mastro Livi proudly showing my "Coramella Italiana" (Italian Strop)





Mastro Livi Medium Loom Strop "Coramella Italiana" in Mastro's hands

Could he make one for me with an American flag insert?