Thread: W&B from the bay

Picked up this 13/16 W&B cheap hoping the damage wasn't too extensive. Few shots before, and a couple after. I spent next to no time cleaning up anything outside of the nasty corrosion near the toe of the blade. I spent a lot of time on those bits so far. Trying to decide how much more I should try to sand out of the there. Either way, I feel confident it should clean up plenty to give a good shave.

Looks good so far.

Bit more progress. I gave up trying to completely remove the pitting by the toe after a few decades of sanding. I was concerned I might wear the metal too thin closer to the edge, or just make an odd/uneven shape of the deal from sanding one spot too much. I have some horn scale blanks in the mail that will hopefully arrive soon.

Nice work on that blade, the remaining pitting gives the razor character,Enjoy!

Looks like you will need to sleeve the pivot hole looks like its oval shape from wear.

Yeah, definitely need to sleeve the pivot hole. Still need to take a look around and find those little tubes at the hardware store. Thanks for reminding me! I should get those materials before the scales arrive.

Got some horn delivered the other day. Trying my first set of scales and first time working with horn has been challenging. The horn arrived with some warping and delamination, but I was able to flatten it out pretty well and avoid the edges with delmaination. Ran into other issues as trying to hand sand brass into a wedge is very tedious and I'm losing skin on the fingertips. That may be enough to get me to go purchase a belt sander tomorrow. Anyhow, also broke my 1/16" drill bit when I was trying to drill the hole in the brass wedge. Of course the drill slipped and gouged the scale when this happened also. Anyhow, due to technical difficulties, not yet finished, but hopefully tomorrow. Here is a pic of a scale mocked up to the razor. I polished it up a bit to get an idea of how it's going to look if/when I finish it. Also, there's a bit of delamination near the wedge end of the opposite scale not pictured. Trying to decide if I want to try thinning it out of the scale with some fairly deep sanding, put a bit of glue into there to help reduce the appearance, or just live with it. Anyhow, here are a couple of pics.

Gorgeous - love the blonde horn.

The W&B looks great, and it's a square tip, my personal favorites....

Finished it up today. Scales didn't turn out perfect, but I'm very pleased with them for my first try. Picked up a belt sander which was very helpful with the wedge, and will be great for future scales instead of trying to shape them with a drum sanding bit on a drill. I think the next set will be much quicker and easier.

Just realized that W&B has a monkey tail, I haven't seen to many with those???

Darn it, we need a razor historian stat!!

Just an illusion from the my oddly shaped scales, methinks.