Thread: What are you working on?

Jacobs cool! Nice one Benz. Fire mine up now and then for quick dust removal

Awesome stash or razors Tom! Dang I'd sit and just look at that everyday! Would you just look at It? Sometimes, you just have to step back and say, would you just look at It?

Mike the bowl looks great, simple and tasteful. Wonderful Sir.

Mike awesome job on the bowl looks great!!

Mike that wood will make such nice scales to compliment that razor, real fine choice there.


Tom.........I just don't have the words to say anything........huh that's rare

Great looking bowl B52!

Originally Posted by Phrank

You call that a Jacob's Ladder?

What can I say Phrank. I was only 9 or 10 years old when my Dad gave me a 15,000 volt transformer and showed me how to make it. While my little friends were busy with their Tonka trucks hauling cat turds out of their sandboxes I was doing weird and wonderful things in his shop. I thought my Dad was the coolest Dad a kid could have.

Soo, as I mentioned earlier im pretty new to this stuff but i really wanna get into straight razor restauration. Soo i bought a lot of 13 razors in diffrent condition. And already before i bought them I fall in love with this Gradwell razor. And when it arrived i was amazed by the weight of it and how much steal it was.



I forgott to take any pictures myself, but this is the best prepictures I can find.

I started with unpinning the scales and started sanding one side of the blade. Now its pretty close to mirror just little more work with the 2k paper and then som polish.
One of the horn scales had a real sharp bend, I have put the scales in the oven in 100C for not to long. A friend told me that boiling them could make em look bad. Then i pressed them and now they are almost straight.

However, the other side of the blade has some text on the blade right where the big black spot is. And Im not sure if I should remove the spot and then also the text or if I should try to just sand around it and then also leave some of the big black mark. The text is almost invisble right now.




Is the scales on this pictures staright enough to but on the razor again? Or should the be totally straight?


Thanks in advance.

That little bit of a bend is not that big of a deal with the direction of the bend. If you want to get a good deep clean on the steel without removing any metal you can use 0000 steel wool and WD-40 and with some elbow grease you can get most black off, but it often leaves some pitting, not that pitting is worse, but often more visual. It looks like you are off to a good start.

Just finished cleaning this Gillette Aristocrat I found in the wild last week. Bought it cheap, but it was pretty grungy. Put it through the dishwasher, then soapy water and a toothbrush, and finally some Flitz. For how gross it was, I'm happy with the outcome.

No date codes on this one, so I assume it's an older version?

Originally Posted by Svisson

Soo, as I mentioned earlier im pretty new to this stuff but i really wanna get into straight razor restauration. Soo i bought a lot of 13 razors in diffrent condition. And already before i bought them I fall in love with this Gradwell razor. And when it arrived i was amazed by the weight of it and how much steal it was.



I forgott to take any pictures myself, but this is the best prepictures I can find.

I started with unpinning the scales and started sanding one side of the blade. Now its pretty close to mirror just little more work with the 2k paper and then som polish.
One of the horn scales had a real sharp bend, I have put the scales in the oven in 100C for not to long. A friend told me that boiling them could make em look bad. Then i pressed them and now they are almost straight.

However, the other side of the blade has some text on the blade right where the big black spot is. And Im not sure if I should remove the spot and then also the text or if I should try to just sand around it and then also leave some of the big black mark. The text is almost invisble right now.




Is the scales on this pictures staright enough to but on the razor again? Or should the be totally straight?


Thanks in advance.

That's a nice blade. Putting the scales in hot water sometimes makes them look bad but you can fix that by polishing them out again with some Mothers. Maas or Flitz. No big deal. Also like Shaun said, the 0000 steel wool is best because it won't leave marks like any other size steel wool. I have used 0000 on chrome when it started getting very minor rust starting that polish couldn't remove. Been doing that for years.