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Thank you for reminding me of this! I've done enough work with exotic computer component cooling that I was well aware (and have been bitten by) the joy of galvanic corrosion. So I'm kind of...

(... the thrilling conclusion!)

Step Five:

Admire your work.

Happily, the blade centers nicely.

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Centering by Zak Jarvis,...

(...Continued)


Step Four, peening:

I've made an anvil out of a hammer. To do that I just found a drill bit slightly larger than the pins I'd use and ran it on the head of the hammer 'till it...

Shooting video of the pinning method I used here wasn't going to happen. I've got auto-focus video, good video and tripod-mountable cameras, but no single device with all of the above.

So I took a...

Crap. I wish I'd known that trick! I had just used a toothbrush and toothpaste. It got the worst of it, but some discoloration remained (hence the still-visible crack).

I'm guessing that, having...

Superglue. Superglue, it turns out, loves ivory. I could not have anticipated how much it loves the stuff. It sticks to ivory a little bit better than it sticks to my fingers.

I nearly got into...

What I did with the pins was to use cello-tape to hold two sets of washers in place. I've got brass on the bottom, SS on the top. Then I cut the pins effectively flush with the washers, put...

I finally got the nickel-silver pins I needed to start working on the various razors that just would look wrong with brass. My first order of business was this poor creature.

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