Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by outback

Now that you mention it, Tom. I do remember some talk about that before. Now I now why the name seemed familiar

I am certain there is more to it than that. Whole story was done by Martin a while back and there is considerable on Joseph Turner in the American Knife thread.
He was a badass who knew how to grind!

Yes, Tom that reminds me now. You and Martin discussed Turner when I found that Heinisch razor with the scissors stamped on the tang.

Here we go! I guess I got SOME of it right! http://straightrazorpalace.com/show-...n-history.html

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Here we go! I guess I got SOME of it right! http://straightrazorpalace.com/show-...n-history.html

Thanks, I almost didn't open your link but glad I did. I am only about 15 minutes past my bedtime!

Good night!

G-Nite!

I am apparently in FBU mode. I've only got three more behind this one.

Also, I'm just making a lot of scales lately, after a very long time of resenting needing to manually shape the horn with sanders and whatnot, knowing the old Sheffield folk just stuck a slab or horn in a mold. I WANT MOLDS TOO DAMMIT.

Well, I don't have them, so I gotta make scales the hard way.

This set I botched slightly, in a couple different directions.

1. I sanded the surfaces before woodgluing the halves together
2. I didn't pay attention and the half with the reference image wasn't aligned, so I had to make them about 2mm smaller than spec.
3. When I cut them apart, the glue pulled a little horn along with it.

Still, the scales & wedge came out nicely, but then KCB showed me a picture of his in more originalish scales, but a slightly different (larger) style. Right then and there I knew I had to knock out another pair of scales.



Now the only problem I have is that this style of scales used a larger domed washer than the standard, later FBU (which Ajkenne made replicas of).

SO, I clearly have no choice but to make a custom washer die, which is what I spent the last hour or so flailing at.

We had a wind shift here again so I'm back under the smoke plume from the fires up north, and it's got my brain a little dull.



What I'm doing is:

Cutting a very short section of small steel pipe, filling it with steel-filled epoxy putty, impressing an actual old Sheffield washer into the epoxy, and then swearing.

I have now three times gotten the timing wrong and pressed the washer in too soon, had it stick, then tear chunks out when I pull the washer back out. THREE TIMES I have successfully made perfect impressions in scrap pieces of epoxy putty that is not in the tube, but just laying on some scrap cardboard.

Why does that matter? Because the tube is sturdy enough that I can stick it in a vise.

Tomorrow I'm cutting one of those perfect impressions out, drilling out my last mess, then gluing the perfect impression into the damned tube.

THEN I can try and make washers with this preposterous setup.

Never herd of a wedge O'matic. That would be handy. Do you stick a chunk of lead in it?

Originally Posted by JP5

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.

The thing I love about Filly's is that they're ground so hollow that they hone up really quickly, and the temper is so spot-on that they take a great edge and really hold it. I think you're going to like this one.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Never herd of a wedge O'matic. That would be handy. Do you stick a chunk of lead in it?

Yep. Fill it with lead, turn it on, and within minutes its spitting out perfect wedges of various sizes.

Its a joke, Jerry. It goes back a couple years, from the butchered blade thread.
I'm still laughing from it.

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

Cutting a very short section of small steel pipe, filling it with steel-filled epoxy putty, impressing an actual old Sheffield washer into the epoxy, and then swearing.

I have now three times gotten the timing wrong and pressed the washer in too soon, had it stick, then tear chunks out when I pull the washer back out.

Maybe use just a thin layer of grease or paste wax as a release agent before you make the impression? That's what you'd do in a pattern-maker's shop...