Thread: Rusty Anchor

Originally Posted by Phrank

Zak - the pic of the W&B's on the left is before Wolfpack restored them - perhaps he can illuminate regarding the pins...interesting, yes, you can clearly see the added detail.

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

I haven't taken this one apart, but I'd guess there aren't any support washers beneath the decorative one, so when they hammered the pins, it flattened. Also, looks like they're steel (as well as the pins), which is really rare on Sheffield stuff.

Zak...the ones that Andrew pictured above (rosette collars) did have your standard SS support washers underneath. When I re-pinned them I also used support washers that I made for them. BTW...the collars for Andrew's pair of W&B's look just like a few old Geo. Johnson razors with rosette's that I have. So perhaps there was some 'sub-contractor' back in the day that made collars for many different manufacturers of razors????

No need to apologize for the rosette photograph Voidmonster....you can see a hellish amount of lint as well as the difference in collars.

Originally Posted by Wolfpack34

Zak...the ones that Andrew pictured above (rosette collars) did have your standard SS support washers underneath. When I re-pinned them I also used support washers that I made for them. BTW...the collars for Andrew's pair of W&B's look just like a few old Geo. Johnson razors with rosette's that I have. So perhaps there was some 'sub-contractor' back in the day that made collars for many different manufacturers of razors????

My guess is everybody got their tools struck off the same mold, or even from the same original manufacturer (even the guys that made tools had to buy tools to make tools).

Originally Posted by WW243

No need to apologize for the rosette photograph Voidmonster....you can see a hellish amount of lint as well as the difference in collars.

170 year old velvet lined boxes really do ONE particular thing VERY well... Can you guess what it is?

Here you go Dave!

Getting this one done has been a real project to be sure and for certain! Dave's been as patient as Job with me, BUT in my defense taking on a project like this one is a challenge and you really have to go slow as you go.

Anyway...here is a picture tutorial of this project. All that's left to be done is for Dave to pick out the collars (either brass bulls-eye, or Domed SS) that he thinks will look the best for him and get it pinned up and honed up.

Here's the way the razor looked when it arrived:

And here’s is what the razor looked like after all the red surface rust and the black discoloration (what some would call “PATINA” ! ) had been removed to show what and how bad the pitting damage was before beginning the restoration project…

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After a lot of the initial sanding was done…the tang top bottom and sides as well as the spine and toe have been cleaned up a good bit, but major pits still remain on the blade faces. BUT… I am starting to see a way forward…

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Continuing the sanding progress…still working with coarser grits to remove the pits…