Thread: What are you working on?

Sorry to drift us off topic.

Posted hopefully fun thread here to continue.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/conve...ml#post1514192

Funny story,back in the late 60sWas no real cure for atrial Fibulation,We had one old patient that when he went into AF, would call his wife out to the garage,pull the coil wire,tell her to give the car a couple cranks,was enough to get his ticker working again.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

I'd bet he bridged the posts of the battery with the metal band.. OUCH!!!

It can be anywhere that has a battery terminal like at the alternator or starter 12V, 24V or whatever! Mike is right, it's all in the amperage too. If a battery is dead or almost dead, you're pretty much ok but a good hot battery will do you some harm & I'll have to check out that 30 amp thing but it could very well be possible.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Funny story,back in the late 60sWas no real cure for atrial Fibulation,We had one old patient that when he went into AF, would call his wife out to the garage,pull the coil wire,tell her to give the car a couple cranks,was enough to get his ticker working again.

My dad had an alternator, starter, generator rebuilding shop when I was younger & I worked for him. We also rewound electric motors & worked on huge dc forklift motors. When I would test an alternator on the machine after rebuilding, I would give myself a small jolt of current by jumping from the field terminal on the older alternators, (w/o built in voltage regulators), to the positive terminal. It wasn't much but it would make my arms twitch! I think that would be the same principal kinda.

Rescaling and pining back some of my previous works :



Th two on top are custom scales, the two under are restored ones.

Originally Posted by Thaeris

Rescaling and pining back some of my previous works :

Th two on top are custom scales, the two under are restored ones.

Very nice work well done Thaeris!

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

Just got done buying some material to put together 2 razors... along with some Baltic amber to make a wedge from. The ERN will be getting some light cream colored Micarta, and I'm going to try my hand at making a Jade wedge for it. Should be a nice challenge

That sounds like a good project. About the Baltic amber, I hadn't seen anyone ever suggest using it (but never looked) and I was wondering if it would work. Ordered some amber chunks a month ago and it finally arrived yesterday so I'm getting ready to try it for a wedge. Happy to see someone else trying it because I've been worried it may be too brittle and chip easy. Guess we won't know until... The stuff I received is more golden color, I thought it would be more reddish. Shouldn't be too hard to work with. But the jade you mentioned... I can imagine you will be hard at work on the grinder with that! Good luck
Wedge material is something I've been putting some thought to, still looking for good ones, there's gotta be many options.

Originally Posted by Thaeris

Rescaling and pining back some of my previous works :



Th two on top are custom scales, the two under are restored ones.

Nice! What is the scale material? Two custom, two restore.. matching new scale material with the old must have been a challenge?
Really like the collar on that one, is it silver?
Good work

Originally Posted by MikeT

That sounds like a good project. About the Baltic amber, I hadn't seen anyone ever suggest using it (but never looked) and I was wondering if it would work. Ordered some amber chunks a month ago and it finally arrived yesterday so I'm getting ready to try it for a wedge. Happy to see someone else trying it because I've been worried it may be too brittle and chip easy. Guess we won't know until... The stuff I received is more golden color, I thought it would be more reddish. Shouldn't be too hard to work with. But the jade you mentioned... I can imagine you will be hard at work on the grinder with that! Good luck
Wedge material is something I've been putting some thought to, still looking for good ones, there's gotta be many options.

Jades still sitting on my shelf, its very hard stuff...
The Amber my Mom saw when she was over and grabbed it all. It's now a brooch and ear rings.

Originally Posted by MikeT

Nice! What is the scale material? Two custom, two restore.. matching new scale material with the old must have been a challenge?
Really like the collar on that one, is it silver?
Good work

Thanks !

All of them are in tortoise, silver collar and pins (well, all of them but the pin in the center of the big silver collars).

I didn't have the silver (or the skills^^) to copy the silver end of the empire razor, so I used MOP

I first only carved the MOP and a piece of tortoise to assemble it as a puzzle, but it was too thin and fragile. So I made a veneer on some synthetic material (I didn't decided yet if it is an heresy or not ^^).