Thread: What are you working on?

Ok, nobody was interested in my fancy blade, just interested in correcting my thoughts on stropping?

Originally Posted by WILDMAN1

Ok, nobody was interested in my fancy blade, just interested in correcting my thoughts on stropping?

I am interested in fancy blades. What are you got?

I posted a picture of my newest arrival in the mail and the only thing people took notice of, was that I said something about over-stropping. They forgot or didn't care about my polishing efforts on it. We are usually quick to pat each other on the back around here. I guess everyone got side-tracked with that and what's his names twisted ankle. Here are the before/after pics. It is much shinier in person.

Those fancy spine Bokers always look nice. It is cleaning up nicely.

Its too bad it has a broken toe, and the wrong scales. I just picked one up recently, myself.

Well, it looks like a fancy toe. I think my Boker is older than yours. The toe may have been made that way? I took the scales off. I'm either throwing them away or selling them, if anyone needs/wants them. I'm going to use some kind of shell for the scales on this one.

Been getting my palms a little sweaty doing some collarless pins in ivory scales. I found this W&B earlier this year with the black plastic scales on it and have been waiting to rescale it with something more appropriate.

Well, I found some ivory scales at a local antiques store on Thursday, got them for pretty cheap because the blade that was it there was dead. They cleaned up real nice and this blade fit perfectly. Had to remove a chip from the edge of the blade and do some general clean up on it. Pinned it together in the ivory with nickel silver pins using my favorite two hammers. I really like the hammer the razor is sitting on because it has a narrow ball end and works well for tapping around the edges of the pin, clean up work after the wider ball.


Now to add it to the "Show Us Your Thumbnotches" thread...

Originally Posted by WILDMAN1

Well, it looks like a fancy toe. I think my Boker is older than yours. The toe may have been made that way? I took the scales off. I'm either throwing them away or selling them, if anyone needs/wants them. I'm going to use some kind of shell for the scales on this one.

Definitely wasn't made that way, toe was broken off and someone did some clean up on it.

In terms of age, there's a chart somewhere from Boker with the dates around the "Tree" stamp on the tang. There are several styles of the tree, with various branches and configurations, it can be fun and somewhat frustrating to match up the tang stamps for an age range....

I looked for mine, but couldn't remember where I put it.
But I think his is a little older, but the toe was not made like that on those blades.

Originally Posted by WILDMAN1

I posted a picture of my newest arrival in the mail and the only thing people took notice of, was that I said something about over-stropping. They forgot or didn't care about my polishing efforts on it. We are usually quick to pat each other on the back around here. I guess everyone got side-tracked with that and what's his names twisted ankle. Here are the before/after pics. It is much shinier in person.

are you kidding me? whining about not getting enough attention? grow up Tc