Thread: What are you working on?

It's definitely an old one. Although not reground too much, as it is a monster wedge,, pushing over 8/8 ��

Originally Posted by Wightman

Here's a beautiful Remeso I spent a few hours cleaning up today. A wonderful gift of many from the kind soul Butzy. The point had a decent size chip that I ground out creating the new point you see now. It was quite rusty and could barely make out the etching down the spine. I was awfully nervous cleaning this one up as I did not want to take off that beautiful gold wash.

Some new scales are in the near future for this beauty. It's already been re-scaled and did not fit properly, as I am assuming unfortunately this is where the chipped point came from. They also had double washered the inside of the pivot pin on one side.

Thanks again Butzy and I hope you like what I have done with it so far. It's too nice of a razor to see it go to waste.

Just glad to see these guys went to a good home!!

Just checking if my pics are coming thru

Looks good mike. Now i got to go get me a cold drink. Lucky im at a gas station. Hell, im always at a gas station. Ha. Glad you got it figured out Mike.

Not completely flat yet, but I've gotten rid of most of the frown. It must have been really wide to begin with because there is still plenty of steel. If it had a full heel I would have just wrote it off.
Would love to have a Filarmonica with the full blade.

That edge sure looks straight. Now to match the curve of the spine, as the edge and spine should match. Nice job on correcting so far.

Back to my bone-scaled Sommer project, after a few weeks soaking in mineral oil, the scales are better matched. Some white streaking will remain. Looking good.
Taped the scales together with the wedge ends lined-up and drilled out the other scale to match the holes Shaun drilled in one of them. Some matching on the pivot end to be done.

Did the math and fired-up the old Wedge-O-Mat. It managed to spit out several good wedge candidates!



I suppose after the scale matching and final polishing, I shall mock-up and select a wedge and pick out some collars.

Blade is as done as it's gonna get. A few pits and stains, not too bad.
No sanding on this thing!

Originally Posted by dinnermint

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I've had this Greaves wedge for awhile. Tossed er in the neatsfoot for a couple weeks, then a few months of rest, with the occasional time with the 1k. There were some rust spots and chips to get out. Scraped the remainder of the rust, lots of 0000 steel wool and flitz polish. It is amazing how much gunk was in the stamp, didn't realize how deep and well defined they are.

Went 1k, 2k, 5k, 8k naniwa specialty stones. Finished up the honing on vintage guled combo coticule. Can't wait for a spin with it.

I think it is a re-grind, as mine appears to be the same one/model, but with a near-wedge, circa 1816-1822.

That Boker turned out great. One of my first straights was a Red Injun 101.

I do like me those Greaves razors gents. Truly ageless..