Bruno has a 'my little ponyish' Razor on 'Custom Builts' right now! :)
Wood is a common and easy to work medium. A favorite of hobbyists in this sport!
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Wow, beauty Tom.
+1 to the pure neatsfoot oil treatment. Designed for the care of leather saddle and tack. Not the compound, the pure stuff. I have some and use it as part of the new strop builds I did on the travel kits. As Shaun said, not soaked, treated like tuff oil and applied liberally.
Gorgeous Pitchford, way nicer shape than mine.
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Still looking......Here is a quote from Neil!
"I think that the scales are leather which has undergone a process called "Cuir Bouilli" or something very similar. Basically, leather is soaked, macerated, formed into sheets or moulds, then baked, waxed and hammered.
Regards,
Neil."
And more in this thread! ; http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...shaw-sons.html
Nice razor Tom...It will be a real beauty once it's 'beautified' a tad. Love me some Pitchford...great steel!
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Thanks, Mike! Is that a nutsy-boltsy, Mike? Pitchford would NEVER have done THAT! :roflmao
Seriously, I am just going to get the rust abated as best I can, leave the factory grinding striations, wipe and wax the scales as Neil suggested and hone it up all-natural. Neil...He is still with me!
Another one!
You said 'hobbyists' AND 'sport' in one sentence!
Endeavour is dead, long live endeavour.
I'll never say this again because it is massively offensive to a lot of cool gents: I kind of like scales that are period appropriate if the originals have to be replaced. The only wood scales I have seen on vintage razors are on farmer scaled razors.
When celluloid appeared...fine, I really like celluloid scaled razors...if it becomes a liability, to me it looks good to replace it with something like celluloid in appearance.
I think horn is the prince of scale material in all its iterations.
Tortoise is king. Ivory the queen. MOP the court jester. Silver the eunuch.
I think with a modern custom razor, any modern material can look sanitary, my little pony or otherwise.
Seriously though, who cares what I think...I don't even care.
There are some awe inspiring examples of that leather treatment..and like so much around here, a fascinating history.
Well, Bill. "They were made for a man, but I like them too!" :D
Bill, I'm massively offended on behalf of all the cool woodworkers..
But I will endeavor to get over it. Maybe make you some wooden scales out of weeping willow for the tears you have caused me...
;)
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