Thread: A lotta metal for a frameback! 8/8 W&B.

Gorgeous set, thanks for sharing.

I had the opportunity to clean up the W&B frameback. It's a sweet, sweet shaver.









Original scales with a small piece grafted onto the pile side above the pivot. New custom washers because it was missing one washer and the originals were punched out of a nickel/copper alloy I didn't have any color match for -- somewhere between your usual bright brass and nickel-silver.

Otherwise just a bunch of cleaning, pinning and a wee bit of honing. Even after a serious buff, it took an edge with no trouble at all.

That's a beautiful frameback Zak!

how did you manage to get between the corners on the frameback? I tried cleaning my greaves, but only the corners shows the heaviest of the pitting.

Originally Posted by llalm

how did you manage to get between the corners on the frameback? I tried cleaning my greaves, but only the corners shows the heaviest of the pitting.

I'm sorry I forgot to reply to you!

I used a lot of tools to clean it up, including a couple of small Dremel wheels. The Dremel wire brush did most of the work getting the stuff out from around the frame, though I was also pretty lucky in that there wasn't much there to begin with.

It's also possible to hold the blade just so and get the buffer wheel most of the way into the crevasse between blade and frame, and I used that for final polish.