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Like I said, I'm doomed.
Now for the good news, yesterday after a long session on the hones, stropping (length end to end about a miles worth, thanks Darl) and using MDC for the first time I got the...

I'm doomed!

155707Here is what I am talking about. Actually it does sort of look like there was a collar there at one time and it looks too big to be the ivory type of pinning....

My visualization was a good one, it just was not right. Anyway, the razor is around 160 years old and the pinning looks like the method used on ivory rather than horn, that is, there appears to be...

I take it back!

I could be wrong but before I ever set hammer to pin I tried to think what was I actually doing. This is what I came up with: I was shortening the pin thereby increasing the diameter. This...

roger that, this is the only razor I have where the scales taper inward and create the friction on the tang which holds the scales parallel to the blade if holding the blade. I'm assuming this is...

Nope, just tried, snug as a bug. But if you hold the blade and scales and drop blade (holding parallel) the blade drops 90 degrees. And the scales as noted above keep their position when shaving. ...

Yesterday I tried to tighten the pins on a recently acquired Greaves. Tap Tap Tap over Tap Tap Tap over...and so on. The tapping seemed to do nothing. I am by nature get a bigger hammer person but...