Thread: What are you working on?

B52 had that bowl all chucked up!

I have a bowl I made at school, sometime back in the last century. I have just been using it to throw keys and loose change into. Now I see this, it occurs to me that it could be used as a shaving bowl!

What do you treat the wood with to make it suitable for shave lather and water?

Thank you in advance for your advice.

Managed to get these ready for hand work.
For all the newbies out there, the scales and wedge work had all been done with a hand operated Coping Saw and a Harbor Freight Belt Sander. Less than 80 bucks. Now its time for the hand sanding. The horn scales were something that I got given to me. They were extra thick, warped and not a very pleasing shape so I was able to rework them. Now I just hope I can get that same finish on them so it blends right. Wedges will be touched up with the hand sanding but they are very close now.
Thanks for looking.

Nice progress pict Jerry. When I first started making scales I was not mocking up early and as a result wound up going back and forth a little until I figure out to mock up several times along the way and only move forward.

Originally Posted by Porl

What do you treat the wood with to make it suitable for shave lather and water?

Thank you in advance for your advice.

Good question. For the inside, unless someone suggests something different I was going to go with ca since it is so waterproof.
Exterior, probably either try a French polish again, or an oil.
Not sure how water resistant shellac is.
Haven't gotten that far yet, hehe.

I fixed a broken scale on a Packwood. I got this online a few years ago to match one that I already had that was found locally. Really hard to get a matched pair of Packwoods together so I went for it even with a broken scale. Now I have a two-razor case on the way to put them in, nothing real special but in decent enough shape, so I figured it was time to fix it. I used superglue to bond to back together, it was a nice split for this. Then I filled any cavities that were left with black horn dust and a drop of superglue. Smoothed out nicely.

I'm not doing too much more to them. They have some patina and spots but it's similar on both and show the age. I just cleaned them and a little Mother's polish, not much. I didn't want to unpin these, I want the rosettes with the original pins intact. So, this is how they will remain and all I have left is to hone them both and wait for the case to arrive.

Nice save Tuzi.!
Brothers, together again. [emoji482]

Originally Posted by outback

Nice save Tuzi.!
Brothers, together again. [emoji482]

Yeah! Here's a picture I took of the third brother. It's at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont though.

Great repair, Tuzi!

I am gonna look around here. Something familiar about that........

Now who would EVER believe you'd say something like that Tom