Thread: First str8 shave today!

Where are you located? It would help with recommending a honer if we knew your location.

It might actually be cheaper and save you time and grief to look for a vintage, shave ready razor in the buy/sell/trade section here at SRP.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Where are you located? It would help with recommending a honer if we knew your location.

Wyoming, USA

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You should be able to tighten the pin yourself. There is a YouTube video of Lynn doing that I believe.

You just need a small ball peen hammer. You put one side of the pin against some metal and tap lightly the other side of the pin. That's how you tighten the pin.

Find a video before you do it however or you may crack your scales or bend your pin.

Originally Posted by gcbryan

You should be able to tighten the pin yourself. There is a YouTube video of Lynn doing that I believe.

You just need a small ball peen hammer. You put one side of the pin against some metal and tap lightly the other side of the pin. That's how you tighten the pin.

Find a video before you do it however or you may crack your scales or bend your pin.

I'm not sure if the pin is already bent, or the pin is off center, because when I do that, it bows the scales, which when opening, undoes any tightening

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Originally Posted by Nhyrum

I'm not sure if the pin is already bent, or the pin is off center, because when I do that, it bows the scales, which when opening, undoes any tightening

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I would say if it's bowing the scales you are "peening" it too hard. The copper pin is soft and you are just flattening the top of the pin a little more. Anytime that doesn't work it's likely that the pin is just a little too long (if it never was tight).

In this case, you need to file just a little off the length of the pin (very little) and then peen it again.

Another "trick" is to open the blade (get it out of the scales) before peening it and you are able to lightly press in on the scales a bit so that more of the pin is exposed to the peening action.