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Love your work karlej.

Thanks for the tip. What kind of motion do you use? I assume lots of practice and experience to get the blade face “straight”. I had trouble seeing the facets I created...

This restore has been a pain in the ass.

3 trips back to “grinder” to correct my poor technique, which thankfully got better with each trip.

2.5 sets of scales. First set came out beautiful...

Definitely not going to be my go to for every razor. This one in particular had a shoulder removed by bench grinder at some point as well as a divot from said grinding. I got the shoulder back to a...

I thought about that but two things kind of soured me to the idea. First is the time, like you said, tedious. The second is material cost. They offer all sorts of rolled abrasive paper, but at 3’...

No need, but thank you for the offer, I have plans on making an order from Caswell’s in the near future.

I want to try the glue, hoping it will help the greaseless go on more evenly.

The 240 grit is surprisingly aggressive. Had I experience with this setup prior to starting the project I would have probably started with 240 and possibly dropped down to 180.

One thing is to...

Yes sir, poor mans grinding wheel. I wouldn’t dare do this on a hollow grind, though I’ll probably try on an already broken blade.

I get a few passes on the wheel then need to dip the blade or...

No problem, Mike.

Nice job on the scales, btw.

Went back to the greaseless to clean up some lines. I dropped back from the 600 grit to 400 grit as it was too shiny after the emery loaded wheel. I tried doing a little work on the buffer just to...

Necessity is the mother of invention.

I usually pin my razors then polish the washers afterward. The problem is that you get dark ring of wax from the buffing compound right around the edge of...

Here you go!
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I just used some dividers and scratched a circle on some 3/4” mdf then cut it out with a jigsaw, I measured the face plate and made a slightly oversized circle from...

I’m not sure how people use it on a buffing wheel, always seems every line is blown by the time they’re done. Nothing worse than a vintage with all rounded off corners.

Working on scales, can’t make a decision, any opinions?

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#5 is a direct copy from a WB FBO, doesn’t seem right proportionally to me.

#8 Is the one I’m leaning towards,...

That was the thing and why I chose this blade to do it on, someone had done some custom work to it already with what looked like a 46 grit grinding wheel. Seemed like a good prospect to experiment.

That was the whole idea, Jerry, do away with hand sanding. Definitely easier not blowing the lines with my setup but also, as you stated, not screwing up my temper. It’s pretty amazing, at least...

Here’s a short video, pretty much all I was doing the entire time so isn’t much more than what the video shows.

https://youtu.be/taK0FqBKruc

Got a little further, looks way better in person than photos would suggest.
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Well finally got my act together. Thanks to gasman and his generous heart for sending me some greaseless to play with.

I used some dividers and made a bunch of circles until one looked like it...

Would love a belt grinder, but that’s not in the financial cards. The grinder itself is one thing but then all the wheels for various grinds, gets real expensive real fast. I always wanted to make...

I can get mine down to 100rpm. Depending on wheel circumference though the fpm may be high. I may use a cork backer to “soften” it a little. We’ll see and learn together.

Turning it on the...

Gasman had a good question on another thread I had started about this razor.

I had stated I’ll make a wheel for sanding this blade out.

I’ve never tried this before as I’ve only sanded by hand...

Found this this bad boy while participating in some RAD. In my quest for some info on the cutler, I found a thread from Glen:...